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Documenting Complex Projects

Documenting Complex Projects. Jeffrey Donnell MRDC 3104 894-8568. Agenda. How to organize the report Specific deliverables How to use and display graphics. Project reports. Reports describe deliverables: Systems Subsystems Function trees Morph charts Concept drawings

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Documenting Complex Projects

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  1. Documenting Complex Projects Jeffrey Donnell MRDC 3104 894-8568

  2. Agenda • How to organize the report • Specific deliverables • How to use and display graphics

  3. Project reports Reports describe deliverables: • Systems • Subsystems • Function trees • Morph charts • Concept drawings • Evaluation matrices Reports explain methods • How did you develop numerical values for evaluation?

  4. Format for Project Reports • Abstract • Introduction • Goals and problems • Overview • Selected Design • Discussion • Presentation of planning tools (when required) • Presentation of Concepts (plus evaluation / selection) • Analysis of operation (when possible) • Closing matter • Summary

  5. The Spaghetti Project • Introduction • Design Overview • What is this? • What is it supposed to do? • What are its features? • How does it work? • How do the features meet your goals? • What problems are raised? • Discussion • Results • Failure analysis • Closing summary Reports thus far have been chronologically organized!

  6. The mini-project Here’s what you do: • Analyze the problem • Develop specifications • Define functions • Generate concepts • Evaluate concepts • Final Product Design!

  7. The Mini-project Report Logical Organization Presents the Design First • Introduction • Need Statement and Problem Statement • Design Overview • Description of selected design, with figure • Discussion • Specifications • Functional definitions • Concept alternatives (illustrated) • Evaluation of alternatives • Closing

  8. Mini-project DeliverablesWeek 1 • Illustrations of original concepts Note: Variants are not original!

  9. Mini-project DeliverablesWeek 2 A PowerPoint presentation describing your selected design: • Complete System Drawing • Component / Detail Drawings as needed • Explanation of operation • Explanation of why it was selected Alternatives may be shown to support explanation.

  10. Mini Project Final Report Introduction • Project goal(s) and challenges Overview of Selected design • Present and describe integrated system Concept presentation • Present Concept alternatives Concept Evaluation • Describe Evaluation method Closing Summary

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