CIS 376 Term Project
Winter 2003
There will be no final exam in this course. Instead you will be required to participate in the Herkules Equipment Corporation web design competition. You will be required to implement your design using tools and technolgies supported by the 1st.com hosting service. You will be required present of your project at the end of the semester. The winning web site will be selected by the Herkules Equipment Corporation. The winning team will be invited to assist in the deployment of the web site at the customer's site.
You may work with a partner on a project if you wish. However, each partner must maintain his or her own engineering notebook. Both partners must contribute equally to the oral presentation and each partner will be graded separately. The present web site for Herkules is located at the following URL www.herkulesequipment.com. Copies of the new product images and descriptions will be housed in the following web directory: www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis376/herkules
The initial requirments gathering at the customer site will be accomplished by a group of student volunteers from this course. All information will be shared with the entire class. All requests for additional information will by made through me by e-mail, so that all questions and answers can be shared with the class.
The deliverables for this project include: a new name for Herkules Equipment, a GOMS model (or equivalent), quality objectives and measures, design rationale, paper prototype (e.g. story board) or key screen snapshots, a CD containing the complete web site, and an engineering notebook. The web site to download an evaluation copy of the Personal Software Process Studio can be found at
PSPS Home Page . Humphery's worksheets and excel files supporting PSP can be downloaded from the web site Addison-Wesley PSP .The engineering notebook contents will be those discussed in class as part of the Personal Software Process. It will include schedule management information like process scripts, project plan form, time recording log with weekly summaries, planned vs actual tracking information (e.g. Gantt chart, line graphs, MS project, etc.) It will also include quality information like defect recording log, completed inspection checklists, tables or graphs containing tracking information regarding progress on quality measures, and summary process benchmark computations (e.g. yield).
Oral project presentations (10 to 15 minutes) will take place during last class period (4/16/03) and during final exam period on (4/21/03). You are expected to make appropriate use of AV materials (demonstration, power point slides, posters, transparencies, handouts, etc.) during your presentation. Your CD is due on 4/14/03. Your presentation outline and project deliverables are due on or before 4/21/03.
Assigned: 2/10/03
Date due: 4/21/03