Project-Based Software Engineering, Project Binder

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Project Binder Instructions


Project binder is the final deliverable of the project that closes the project. As a single deliverable it should be easy assess for completeness and after acceptance it can be archived for future reference. The idea is to get rid of all the working versions of the documents and software and put all the important ones in one place.

The Structure of the Project Binder

In our small project the project binder consists of a project summary and the final software. The project summary includes all the official documents you have done for the project as appendices. Thus, your the final delivery of the project has the following parts:

1. Project Summary – the actual document to be supplied with table of contents and appendices. The appendices are the following:

2. Final software, the MS-Excel workbook.

Project binder is just a collection of the above-mentioned items that is easy hand to the customer and archive. Thus, there is not much more to say about it; the contents of the project summary are explained below.

Templates for Project Summary

In our project the project summary should discuss the lessons you have learned during the course, feedback about the course, and your own evaluation about your project (how many extra points you should get and why). In addition to that you should include the SQA reports (reviews and testing), user’s guide and example reports as appendices to the project summary.

As earlier, there is a Standard Project Summary Template SWE-PS-ENG.dot


Returning the Project Binder

The project binder must be returned both as a printed report (the documents) and as electronic version. The deadline for returning electronic deliverable is Thursday 12.12.2002 at 12.00 (noon) via e-mail  k010752000@kurssit.lut.fi. Notice that the printed documents and the electronic versions of the documents must be the same.

Printed Project Binder

You can return the printed documents during Thursday 12.12.2002 till 16.00 to the box near room  6731  (the box disappears at 4 p.m.).

Electronic Submission

The electronic submission consists of all the project documents and the final software. The documents should be packed in one (compressed) zip-file where the documents have the following names (of course, use your own name and student number):

Document                                                          

Example File Name

Project Summary

0123456AbC_PS.doc

Appendix 1: Project Plan

0123456AbC_PP.doc

Appendix 2: Requirements Document

0123456AbC_RD.doc

Appendix 3: Implementation Plan

0123456AbC_IP.doc

Appendix 4: SQA Reports

0123456AbC_QR.doc

Appendix 5: User’s Guide, including example reports

0123456AbC_UG.doc

The MS-Excel workbook is to be left outside the zip-file so that the email consists of two files, e.g. 0123456AbC.zip and 0123456AbC.xls –files.

Questions and Results

If you have any questions about developing the project binder and results, contact Yana.Selioukova@lut.fi


Last updated 13.11.2002