Project Management

• Decider Protocols
• How do you have good decision making protocols on a team?
• The problem here… is that there isn’t anyone to argue with. Just yourself!
• So, the question arises, how do you manage such a complex project without anyone to work with?
• When its a short project (4-5 weeks) you just ram through it and you get it done.
• That… doesn’t work so well on a year long project. Either just doesn’t end up happening, or, it goes on and on and on and on…
• How to succeed on your capstone…
• Manage yourself
• Manage resources (professors, subject matter experts, etc.)
• Manage contacts
• Manage Time

Capstone Timetable

• Capstone Proposal – Due by 9/30
• Protection of Human Subjects – Due 10/3
• Research Report / Paper – Due 12 / 9
• Must contain:
• Introduction
• Lit Review
• Exemplars
• Predispositions / Assumptions
• User Research
• Insights

The Key to Doing it:

• Who: Who’s involved, who’s doing it
• What: What is it EXACTLY that has to be done. Know what it is!
• When: When is it due?
• Gap Analysis:
• Say: I want to accomplish Something
• A Gap Analysis is going to be a personal task (not the same for everyone)
• Ok, we know what the goal is, but what are the things that I need accomplish in order to get this done.
• To DO a Lit Review:
• Step 1: Find out what a Lit Review is
• Step 2: Find out where the Lit is (Chapter 2 in Research Design)
• Step 3: Look at an example of a lit review
• Step 4: Find literature
• Step 5: Decide how you’ll take notes
• ETC.