Assessment - Working Product Presentation

Working Product Presentation (Tuesday 08/11/2011)

On Tuesday 08 November between 6pm and 9pm, you are required to deliver a Working Product presentation. This presentation is your opportunity to showcase your achievements so far. The product does not have to be finished but aspects of it should be fully functional.

A panel of academics (acting as the clients for the project) will attempt to recreate a commercial presentation scenario and will therefore expect you to present professionally.

You should imagine that the panel has made a financial investment in your project and is therefore expecting to be impressed and re-assured with the quality of your work and the professionalism of your team.

The presentation must include:

·        An introduction to the project; its key selling points, purpose and delivery

·        Examples of your best work (covering all aspects of the project)

·        A demonstration of the product (including fully functional aspects)

·        Diagrams/charts showing the percentage-completed for each part of the project

·        The presentation of an up-to-date time plan & minutes of meetings (with actions)

·        An evaluation of the team’s performance so far

·        An evaluation of the product (as it stands)

·        The presentation and technical explanation of each team member’s individual contribution to the production of the project

·        The presentation of each team member’s production diary

The length of your presentation is determined by your team size, as follows:

·        2 team members: 15 minutes

Failure to present at this work-in-progress presentation and upload your Contextual Research will result in the loss of 100 MARKS. (Please refer to the marking scheme below)

Working Presentation - writing the script

So yes I have been rocking out to the piano of Chiquitia still on the ABBA blast following the name being chosen.

I have been productive as well though.  I have started my Production Diary, at least I think I have.  Having looked at other people's Gantt Charts I feel I may have put far too much detail into it.

To produce the Gantt charts for Becky and I, I noted the activities and dates of all the items that we have published on the blog, as well as in the minutes.  I listed them all in a spreadsheet to populate the Gantt chart when we got back to uni (not having a version of Microsoft Project that is Mac compatible, nor access to a PC).

The blog itself has been my Production Diary, along with many a 'to do' list but I am not certain whether this will suffice for the presentation on the 8th November.  I emailed our tutor Iain to ask what format he needs it.

For the time being I'll continue to update the spreadsheet that I used for compiling the Gantt chart.  I have found it a useful tool for logging jobs that need to be done, as well as viewing my progress.  I'll also check on Tuesday (next tutorial) if we can really strip the Gantt charts out and make them much simpler?

Other areas I have been working on today have been the introduction to the working presentation script.  This includes much of the information from the pitch document.  I'm not posting any of it on here just yet, not being cloak and dagger but it is very much work in progress.

I have also done a bit of housekeeping, updating tags on the posts so the blog is easy to navigate around and items can be grouped.  I have also tidied up some of the files in my assignment folder on my Mac.

Finally I have done the minutes from last week and complied a 'to do' list/ schedule for next week.  Beck called earlier but we keep missing each other.  I like this blog as we can use it as a way to exchange ideas and where we are up to around the clock.  If we miss each other on the phone, we can catch up over the blog at what would be considered an anti social hour!

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