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Purpose
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- To gather, analyze, and record project data
- To evaluate the team's and each role's performance
- To identify ways to imporve the cycle-2 process
- To produce the cycle-1 report
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Entry Criteria
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- The engineers have complleted and test the product.
- They have gathered all the data and completed all the forms
- The students have read textbook Chapters 10, 16, 17, and 18.
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General
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The cycle-1 report contains an analysis of the project by each role.
- Overall team performance: team leader
- Plan versus actual performance: planning manager
- Overall product design and standards: development manager
- Change management and project support: support manager
- Process and product quality: quality/process manager
The cycle report should
- Use process data to support the engineers' statements
- Thoughtfully consider the meaning of the results produced
- Be short and concise
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Step
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Activities
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Description
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1 |
Postmortem Process Overview |
The instructor describes the postmortem process
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The need for complete and accurate process data
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The contents of the cycle report
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The peer evaluation process and forms
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Review Process Data |
The quality/process manager leads the team in analyzing project data and
identifying problem and improvement areas.
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Leadership, planning, process, quality, or support
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Suggested team actions and responsibilties
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Areas for instructor or facility improvement
The engineers prepare and submit PIPs on these improvement suggestions.
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Evaluate Role Performance |
The team leader leads the team in evaluating the effectiveness of the team
roles, the instructor's actions, and the support facilities.
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Where they were effective
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Where there is room for improvement
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Prepare Cycle-1 Report |
- The team leader leads the team in outlining the cycle-1 report.
- Allocating report work to the team members
- Obtaining commitments for report section completion
- Assembling, reviewing, and correcting the completed report
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Prepare Role Evaluations |
Each engineer completes an evaluation of the team and of each team role using
form PEER.
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Each role's difficulty and contribution
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Percents must total 100%
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The effectiveness of each role on a scale of 1 (inadequate) to 5
(superior).
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Exit Criteria
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- The development cycle has produce a high-quality product with all required
documentation.
- The completed product is under configuration control.
- ALl process data have been evaluated and PIPs submitted.
- The peer evaluations are done an submitted (PEER).
- The cycle-1 report has been completed and submitted.
- SUMP an SUMQ forms are completed for the system and all its components.
- The project notebook has been updated.
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