CIS 4930
Postmortem

Warning: required assignment

Completion of this assignment is required in order to pass the course; anyone who does not turn in the completed assignment may as well drop the course because no matter how many points they accumulate, they will earn an E.

Due Tuesday, December 7th

At the start of the presentations, submit:

• Hardcopy of your postmortems (see below)
• Neatly labeled* CD containing:
• Soft copy of your postmortems (preferably as a PDF)
• Soft copy of your term project deliverables (preferably as a PDF and native format)
• For each homework/programming assignment you submitted, an appropriately named directory containing the complete source code and soft copies of all other deliverables

*—"My Name / Design Patterns 2010F / Final CD"

Postmortems

You will be writing two separate postmortems, each of which must be a minimum of 500 words.

1. term project
2. course over all

Each postmortem will be broken into the following sections:

1. What were the goals and did you achieve them?
2. Were the schedule, resources, feature set, and quality expectations realistic for achieving the set goals?
3. What went right? What went wrong?
4. What are the lessons you learned?
5. What would you do differently if you had it to do over again?
6. For the course only: what grade (0-100: numbers only!) do you believe you earned and why do you believe you earned that grade?
7. For the group project only: what grade (0-100: numbers only!) do you believe your team's project overall earned and why?
8. For the group project only: for each member of the team, including yourself, in alphabetic order by last name provide
   • the percentage of the overall contribution did s/he made,
   • on a scale of 0-100, rate her/his effort
   • on a scale of 0-100, what grade s/he deserves
   • a sentence or more explaining why those assessments are accurate, fair, and just.

Modifications

This document is subject to revision as needed. All modifications will be noted in this section.