Day 2 Agenda¶
On Site Activities¶
Playbook (approx page 43): capstone-support-dev:export:playbook/Capstone Playbook.pptx
Resources for On-site Activities¶
- Team Skills Assessment form to fill out on-site
- Needs & Requirements workbook
- Spin for Needs categories
Action Items / Meeting Prep¶
These tasks should be completed before next on-site meeting (Day 3)
Team Development / Design Process Refresher¶
- * Watch Wiki video (3 min)
- Add your personal info (name, preferred pronouns, major, RPI email, and phone #) to team’s Wiki on EDN
- Watch Customer Needs video (9 min)
- Watch Engineering Requirements video (11 min)
Administrative Tasks¶
- Post Team Skills Assessment (done in class) to EDN Project Management forum thread
- Follow instructions on Subversion page to download and install client, then checkout a copy of ONLY your project’s working folder from the Repository. Visit your PE’s office hours for assistance.
- Prepare Client Meeting #1 PPT slides using the given template and instructions.
- template
- instructions - Client_Meetings
- Create a thread in the Project Management forum called Client Meeting 1
- When your slides are ready for review, post the slides to that thread. You'll also use the thread for your meeting minutes
- Send a link to that forum thread to your PE so that they can review your slides.
- Choose the client liaison within your team.
- This person will be the focal point of contact for emails to/from your client. They are NOT the team's "spokesperson" at meetings, conference calls, on/off site meetings etc.
- Read Meeting Minutes Wiki page to learn how to take good meeting minutes. You need to take meeting minutes from next class onwards.
Project Technical Work¶
- We invite you to bring project questions to next class.
- Identify one Customer Need for your project and translate it into an Engineering Requirement.
- Watch Forum Posting video (3 mins)
- (first person to post) Create a SINGLE thread in EDN Design Forum titled "Initial Needs and Requirements”
- (everyone else) Reply to post with your thoughts.
- For ongoing projects, review prior semesters’ final presentations in accordance with PE instructions for discussion during Meeting 3 or 4
- PPT should be in last semester's Repository or Final Deliverables Forum on EDN
- (first person to post) Create a SINGLE thread in EDN Background Info Forum titled "Questions about project"
- (everyone else) Reply to post with questions you have about project
Reminder¶
- Identify time and register for Team Building Retreat
- Complete the Online Safety Training 'Rensselaer Manufacturing and Prototyping Laboratories-Safety Orientation' in Percipio (https://rpi.percipio.com/) before Class 6 and post completed safety certificate in a thread in Project Mgmt Forum.
full list of Capstone Daily Agendas¶
previous onboarding meeting- Day 1 Agenda¶
next project scoping meeting- Day 3 Agenda¶