CSE 269 S07
			  Project Planning

A date will be established when this is due during the first class.

Send by email to tpeters@cse.uconn.edu.  I am happy to review initial
drafts before your final submission for grading.

The file should be PLAIN TEXT only -----

		---- No HTML, graphics, MSWord.


1. State the idea, proceeding from a general perspective to a more
specific statement of what you intend to do.  Expand these
specifics over a few sentences, giving a high level picture
and a few critical details.  Key questions to answer are

	a. What is the subject area?
	b. What will your completed project do, show, prove?
	(Recall a design and key prototypes are sufficient.)

2. State any known dependencies (Sun Solaris OS, Open GL
availability, access to a desktop super-computer, papers from
a mathematician about factoring primes, etc.). Do you expect
to use CSE computers, your own, other platforms, no platforms?

3. Discuss final deliverables.  Will you be completing
industrially hardened code that you expect to sell to a 
major network vendor?  Will you be completing an extensive
prototype that is only one step away from product?  Will
you produce a limited proof-of-concept demonstration?  Will
your final output be code, a report, a presentation?  Will
you be developing key new theoretical foundations?  Will you
design any innovative algorithms?  

4. Create a very rough schedule, say on the order of key monthly
milestones.  This will serve as an initial template to be
modified later.  You really just want to see if you have
enough person-hours available to complete your project.
Estimate how many hours each person can spend per week and
check this against a rough, gross estimate of the expected
total time for project completion.  

5. State your team composition and broad categories of
responsibility (Joe has UI, Sally has DB, Joan has numerical
algorithms).  Again, this will serve as an initial template to be
modified later.

6. Discuss one or two major contingency plans.  (If we can't get
Solaris OS we could do 90% of the project under Windows 98, while
only losing the free-form surface geometry.)

All of this should be no more than 1 page.

Items 2-6 may often easily be done in one or two sentences, each.  
Item 1 may take a paragraph or two.  Again, the whole point of
this is to concisely communicate some formal expression of
your idea for further reflection and refinement of this idea
to a full project design.