Project Plan Grading Template

Team: Yakka ...

Grade: (92 out of 100)

The following is a breakdown of the grading.

Document presentation (9/10 pts)

Important points:

Organization - OK, nice re-organization of the template I gave you. The link to sponsor is bad.
Name/logo - I like both!
Document author - not indicated on project plan; should be included for all documents.
project team members/roles - OK, but should be accessible from all documents. And who is the manager!
use of English - misspelled Explanation, browsable. Check spelling on documents.

Desirable features:

Innovation - Good additional parts to the project, such as the history and revision sections. Not entirely clear what is contained in those sections, so a brief explanation would be good.

Comments:

Project Description (20/20 pts)

Important points:

length (approx one page) - good
clarity (use of English) -OK
specificity (Can I tell what you are going to do?) OK

Comments: To what extent are you coordinating with CoC graduate student Anind Dey. He is doing a similar project and should be mentioned explicitly in your project description. Also, you should put in explicit links to other work as you become aware of it.

Project Schedule (30/35 pts)

Important points:

clarity (Can I interpret the table?) too much use of tables in this project plan; makes it hard to read.
completeness (enough activities indicated?) - OK, when considering the breakdown, but high-level set of tasks seems light. Your schedule table should go down to the level of the breakdown activities.
indication of milestones -good.

Extra bonus:

innovative use of table to indicate schedule information - a bit too much, I think, but extremely good effort.
good use of links - used for table of contents, but not to link deliverables to milestones in schedule. Could also link high-level tasks to their descriptions/breakdowns.

Comments:

Activities description (33/35 pts)

Important points:

completeness (all scheduled activities described; descriptions are detailed enough to indicate what work is done) - OK
time estimates for activities - I want this done in terms of hours, since it's not clear to me what a man-day means for a student.
role assignment - OK
clarity of descriptions of activities - this could be done a bit more clealy with less reliance on tables and using some other format, such as the description lists suggested in the project plan template.

Comments:

If you want to have your grade reconsidered for this document, you must hand in a new version within one week and address the comments made in this initial grading. After regrading, the new grade will override the original one.