FINAL Presentations and Demos

Final presentations will be a repeat of the other presentations you have done during the semester, but without the demonstrations as part of the presentation.

Presentations will be in the order below:

Final Presentation Formatting Notes

PLEASE try to keep your presentation down to ten minutes in length. Also, during questions, try to answer them parsimoniously (completely, but without "running on"). In the past there have been instances in which the questions ended up taking longer than the original presentation, because the presenter ran off on tangents, or didn't understand the question, or even tried to cover that they didn't have any coherent answer. Pleas try not to fall into that trap!

More tips: PRACTICE YOUR PRESENTATION! Make it look professional. Dress up nicely in business-like attire. Practice what you will say in front of a mirror or with family or roommates. Do an "elevator speech" in which you get all the salient points across in the time it takes for an elevator ride. DON'T READ YOUR SLIDES! Know what you are going to say without having to look at all the bullets or words on your presentation/poster — speak from your head and knowledge, not from the slides. THE AUDIENCE CAN READ THE SLIDES; YOU should be "telling the story" of your project!

The outline of the presentation is as follows:

1. slide 1 — Title slide
   
   • name of project
   • project team members
   • date
2. slide 2 — Purpose of project
   
   • why was this a good fit?
   • why were you interested?
3. slide 3 — Project goals
   
   • what the project accomplishes
   • 3 - 4 bullets
4. slide 4 — Project description
   
   • concept of operation ~ how it works
   • some idea of planned system data flow
5. slide 5 — Project planning
   
   • project management tool[s] used
   • screen shot of current board
6. slide 6 — Agile method 1
   
   • what method: Scrum, Kanban, Lean
   • why did you choose this tool
   • did it work well
7. slide 7 — Agile method 2
   
   • what were the advantages of your tool
   • what were the drawbacks of it
8. slide 8 — Demonstration
   
   • demo of what you have working
9. slide 9 — Project challenges 1
   
   • describe a challenge that you encountered
   • describe how you mitigated that challenge
10. slide 10 — Project challenges 2
    
    • describe a different challenge that you encountered
    • describe how you mitigated that challenge
11. slide 11 — Thank you and questions

My Infamous Last Words…

We all want to begin celebrating as soon as possible . . .