View the Recorded Session for July 9
Objectives for Week 9 --Proposal Technical Approach & Operations Plan
1. Peer review Introduction, Technical Approach, & Operations Approach
2. Begin making plans for the Kickstarter video.
3. Discuss document design strategies.
Just as we discussed last Monday, this week you'll be working with your team to write the techical approach and operations plan. Use the information below to help you get started. Remember, the TA contains the actual steps to complete the project and the Operations Plan explains how you will manage the project.
Once you've written the TA & OP, I'd like you to swap documents with another team and let them peer review your work. Please use the informal grading rubrics for the Introduction, TA, & OPs Plan to give the other team feedback. Here are the peer review partners:
Team 1: Kevin, James, Mike -- Team 4: Jacob, Rachel, Rooshi, Dillon
Team 2: Andrea, Wilson, Brad -- Team 3: Emily, Kyanne, Brennen
Each team needs to appoint a communication leader to email the documents to the other team. Each team needs to review the documents, and one person needs to complete the rubrics, make sure the rest of the team supports the critique, and then return the documents to the other team.
Since you are writing these documents this week, let's plan to swap them with the other team on Monday, July 16, and use that week to peer review the documents. Plan to have them back to the other team by Friday, July 20.
To sum up:
July 16 -- swap your Introduction, TA, & Ops Plan with your appointed peer review team.
Complete the informal rubric for each segment.
Return to the other team by Friday, July 20.
SUPPORTING INFORMATION --
TECHNICAL APPROACH & OPERATIONS PLAN
These are the main two sections of the document and will contain the most information about your project. Here are some documents that will help you to structure your proposal sections.
Outline for the Technical Approach
PowerPoint Presentation for the Operations Plan (this is only one slide!)
Technical Approach Grade Sheet
Again, check out the MERC proposal and the other sample proposal linked below.
In class Monday night, we'll begin to talk about the Kickstarter video that will part of the project. We will also talk about document design for the proposal, using this guiding document:
Finally, we will cover how to write the Executive summary, the letter of transmittal, and the appendices.
Please be in touch with me if you have questions!
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