Title: About Final Project
Course: System Analysis and Design: Project Mana gement (17338) > Section: Assignments

The final project assignment is a “Team” project assignment. Given a project case scenario, each team needs to develop a project management plan solution to address that project current situation/challenges.

The teams will be randomly arranged using Blackboard "Groups" tool where the only input from instructor is number of participants in each team. Team assignment will be done within the first weeks of this session so you can start connecting with your team mates. The official project case scenario and assignment instructions will be released around Week 10 of this Spring 2016 session.

This final team project assignment counts 20% of your final grade distributed as follows: 15% project work and team presentation and 5% peer review evaluation.

For the 15% project work you need submit softcopies of deliverables associated to the proposed project management plan solution and deliver a team presentation via Adobe Connect. Every team must pick a time/day between 05/09 and 05/12 that best works for all team members to do the team presentation.

The 5% peer review evaluation is a completely confidential survey that each team member needs to complete to provide feedback in the level of contribution and participation of his/her team mates.

You don't need to meet face-to-face to successfully complete this final team project assignment. This assignment can be successully completed in a "virtual team" dynamic. Each Group will have a designated space under Blackboard Groups module only accessible to team members. This space will have different collaboration tools and file sharing features to facilitate virtual interactions between team members. You are also welcome to take advantage of any other collaboration tool like google hangouts, google drive, email.

Every team member needs to actively engage and commit to team deliverables. You are expected to get back to your team members when needed and review/update the documents your team is sharing/counting on you to deliver.

This is a distance learning "Project" management class. You need the practical component of this team assignment to experience some close to real application of putting together a project management plan and dealing with challenges involved in that process. This assignment and all the components on this class were approved by a task force faculty team within the APT program. And I have successfully implemented this concept in all the online sessions we have offered this class since APT (Accelerated Programmer Training) started.

I look forward to reviewing all teams project management plan solutions at the end of this Spring 2016 session.