Project 4: SDLC Presentation

Available Points:

    4% Slide 1. Title
    4% Slide 2. Table of Contents
  10% Slide 3. Planning
  10% Slide 4. Analysis
  10% Slide 5. Design
  10% Slide 6. Build
  10% Slide 7. Implement
  10% Slide 8. Maintain
  10% Slide 9. Summary
     4% Used Design Template
     4% Applied style to presentation (animation, slide transition, etc.)
     4% Used at least two images or clip-art pictures
     4% Printed slides in Handout format for turn-in
     6% Uploaded lastname_SDLC.ppt file to Student Web Server (Required for grade)
100% TOTAL

Due:

Cascade: Monday, November 9, 2009
Sylvania: Thursday, November 12, 2009

Related Readings:

Text: Chapter 3) Application Software, and Chapter 12) Information System Development

Software: Applications

The SDLC

eTutorials for PCs, the Internet and MS Applications

Other Internet Pages identified below

This assignment covers the concept of the System Development Life Cycle.

Part I -- SDLC Plan

Use the steps of the "waterfall" SDLC as presented in the The SDLC notes to describe the process of accomplishing a task that is of interest to you. (There is also a reference to the SDLC on the class hompage.) Your task can be any task and does not have to be related to an IT system. Examples might be to: take a trip; buy a house, car, or something; get a degree; learn how to do something; plan a party; bake a cake or just about anything. The idea here is to come up with some concrete examples of the abstract concepts of the SDLC, to show that you really understand what each step involves.

For example, if the task was to take a vacation trip to Germany, then the SDLC Steps might look as follows:

After you have formulated your task and described each step, present your information in a minimum 9 slide presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint. NOTE: Please see the Brief Tutorial on using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 for the SDLC project. You may use any version of PowerPoint with which you are familiar.

Presentation requirements

1. You should have a title slide and a table of contents slide.
2. You should have at least one slide for each step and each of the steps (Planning, Analysis, Design, Build, Implement, and Maintain) must be the title of a slide (similar to that shown above).
3. Your presentation should have at least two relevantimages in it
4. Use a design template background.
5. Include slide transition effects (custom aninmation) between your slides. You can add additional animations, sound or movies if you like, but these are not required as part of the assignment.
6. Summary Slide - summarize what you just talked about.

NOTE: Use the following guidelines for a presentation:

• Start with a Title Page
  • Title Should be Short
  • Provide Presenter's Name, Date
• Follow with a Table of Contents Page
  • One Bullet for Each Topic
  • Keep Bullets Short
• Topic Slides
  • Each Slide Should Include Only One Topic
  • Each Slide Should Contain 4-6 Short Bullets
    • Bullets Identify Main Concepts to be Talked About
    • Talk to the Rest
    • DO NOT put everything that you want to say on the slide. If you feel that you must have everything that you want to say somewhere within your presentation, put it in the Notes section. -- A Bullet Should Never Be as Long as this One.
    • Keep Bullets Short
    • Include Appropriate Images, Sounds, Videos that Add to the Presentation
    • DO NOT include Images, Sounds, Videos, Animations just because they are cute.
  • Font Usage
    • Font Size Should be Appropriate for the Slide and Viewing from a Distance
    • A Sans Serif Font such as Arial or Verdana
    • Consistant Use of Word Capitalization
• Always Spell Check
• Summary Slide
  • Summarize What You Just Talked About

Save your presentation as lastname_SDLC.ppt (Microsoft PowerPoint) but replace the "lastname" with your lastname.

Part II -- Submitting Your Project

1. Your lastname_SDLC.ppt file should be posted in the project_4 folder under your student folder on the Student Web Server that you created in Project 3 (Directory Structures). This must be done so your instructor can grade an electronic version of your file.
2. Print out a copy of your lastname_SDLC.ppt for turn-in in your notebook.
   • Select (File - Print).
   • When the print window appears, Click on the Print what: drop down menu box and select Handouts (6 slides per page).
   
   • Then, select the Print button. This will print two sheets with your slides on them. There is a selection for 9 slides to a page, but they are quite small and hard to read.