professional graduation project
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This lecture was created by Mashro3na team in PiTechnologies.Session aims to illustrate common mistakes, problems and drawbacks in graduation projects with the expected reasons and the recommended solutionsTRANSCRIPT
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Professional Grad. Project
PiTechnologiesAhmedYossef
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About PiTechnologies
‣Egyptian startup company
‣PiTechnologies is specialized in
‣Mobile applications development
‣Web applications development
‣Embedded systems
‣Wireless communications
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About Mashro3na
‣It is an initiative of PiTechnologies
‣Mashro3na aims to provide graduation projects technical and managerial support
‣Mashro3na aims to enhance:
‣The graduation projects
‣The senior year student skills (technical, managerial, team working ..)
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Agenda‣What is GP ?
‣Why are you working on GP ?
‣GP Team
‣Common mistakes
‣Meetings
‣ Tools
‣ SVN
‣ Project Management
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Survey ..What is GP ?
0
50
100
150
200
20072008
20092010
Region 1 Region 2
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Space ship ?
Product ?
Smart Home ?
GPS + MATLAB + Java + Linux + MC + .. don’t forget web application and mobile end :)
Main Categories
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Space shipProduct
Smart Home Assembler
Out of scopeLake of supportEnds as bike ..
Low technical experience Waste of time connecting others
It is not accepted as GP in most time
Nothing newYou are traditional for interviewer
It is not a projectYou make enological things
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Best Project
New Idea - Old Idea (added Value)
Phases
Applicable (Product)
Independent - learn technologies
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Why GP ?
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Reasons
‣To do something you should know why you are doing it
‣Learn new technologies
‣Apply theoretical concepts
‣Work as for real
‣Show the world something
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GP Team
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Team work
‣1 + 1 = 2
‣1 + 1 = 3
‣1 + 1 = 0
Accepted
Expected
Actually
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1+1 = 3
‣Different tasks require different skills
‣Different players .. different minds .. new solutions
‣More motivation
‣Work review
‣Focus more on similar tasks
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‣Different tasks require different skills
‣Different players .. different minds .. new solutions
‣More motivation
‣Work review
‣Focus more on similar tasks
I will work on all tasks .. me too
i Think .. you work
More arguments .. More problems
You discover my errors .. i will discover yours
I am working on all tasks .. again
1+1 = 0
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Solutions‣Changing the previous attitudes
‣It is business not personal
‣I don’t like your idea .. but i respect you
‣You are right your idea is better than mine
‣I don’t like team decision .. i will execute it
‣I discuss only when it is good for my team not to prove my point of view
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Common Mistakes
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Team Homogeneity
‣All A+ team
‣All F- team
‣All developers team
‣A+ and F- team
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Team Homogeneity
‣All A+ team
‣All F- team
‣All developers team
‣A+ and F- team
Team should be miscellaneous Different skills
Same goal
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Courses Mistake
‣Divide the project requirements to a group of courses
‣Attending courses till the last moment
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Courses Mistake
‣Divide the project requirements to a group of courses
‣Attending courses till the last moment
Define courses you needDefine self study you need
Restrict courses time and dealines
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Specs Mistakes
‣Undefined specs .. Undefined project .. Undefined results
‣Defined specs .. Undefined manners of execution
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Specs Mistakes
‣Undefined specs .. Undefined project .. Undefined results
‣Defined specs .. Undefined manners of execution
Idea is not enoughYou should have full specs of the system before
starting
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Time Mistakes
‣Unplanned
‣Wrong plan
‣Too much time for learning
‣Too much time for working
‣No backup plan and no margins
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Time Mistakes
‣Unplanned
‣Wrong plan
‣Too much time for learning
‣Too much time for working
‣No backup plan and no margins
Time should be well dividedProject should be divided into phases
Delay means missing features not project failureEach simple task should be planned
Learn, Design, Implement, Test, DocumentKeep margins
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Meetings
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Teamwork and Meetings
‣Meeting is the most important part of the teamwork
‣As during meeting:
‣Work is divided into tasks
‣Tasks are assigned
‣Completed tasks are delivered
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Agenda
‣Leader should announce the agenda before the meeting
‣Members are free to add any topics before the meeting
‣Leader should state the agenda as check list of tasks, decisions and deliverables
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Apology
‣If you will be delayed, you should report before the meeting starts.
‣If you will not be able to come, you should delegate your vote and work to some one else.
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During Meeting
‣No argument
‣Limited discussion
‣If A and B has different point of views, each one would separately explain his, then leader should terminate discussion to start voting.
‣In dark situations, leader can make a decision, and you should accept it.
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After the Meeting
‣During the meeting, leader should have written notes about the discussions and the decisions.
‣Leader should send MoMs to the team
‣Leader should make the agenda and the time of the next meeting
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Apology for deliverables
‣You should report any errors or blocking breaks just when they appear.
‣Always report and make your leader updated
‣Don’t change your task without confirmation
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Tools - Version Control
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What is VC
‣Version control - Source control - Revision control
‣It is a software enables you to keep history of changing in documents, code files, ..
‣It can be centralized or distributed
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Why Version Control
‣No conflict
‣No project_last, project_final, project_finaaaal
‣A change in a single file within the project, generates a new version with number, timestamp, creator and comment
‣No need to merge copies and move code on flash memory
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Check Out
‣It is an operation to request a copy of the project to work on
‣You can check out the latest version or any older version you like
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Check in
‣Check in - Commit -Submit
‣It is an operation done after checking out and making some modifications
‣You commit your changes to save them as a new version with timestamp and comment
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Branching
‣It is an operation to make a sub-project/parallel project
‣You make this operation when you want to test a new feature.
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Test ScenarioCurrent Version
Test Code
Real Code
Check Out
Check In
Check Out
Current Version
Test Code
Real Code
Real Code
BranchCheck out Check Out
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Examples
‣SVN
‣CVS
‣http://assembla.com/ (online)
‣Git
‣https://github.com/ (online)
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Tools - Project Management
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What is PM ?
‣It is the process of
‣Diving work into phases and tasks
‣Identifying execution percentage
‣Finding critical issues
‣Finding alternative solutions
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Project
PhaseTask Task Task Task
PhaseTask Task Task Task
PhaseTask Task Task Task
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Phases
‣You should divide your project into phases
‣Each phase represents a percentage of total project
‣Phase is a milestone, with defined date you should measure your progress
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Task‣ It is the building block of the project
‣Each task should have the following
‣Major phase
‣Type
‣Dead line
‣Assigned player(s)
‣Reviewer and/or supervisor
Task the basic element in the project..
If you could manage tasks .. you will manage your project .. otherwise !
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Task Types
Planning Learning Execution
• To define tasks• Involves a lot of estimation and lack
of info• Usually involves
learning tasks
• To know about something
• Undefined time• Should has a
deadline
• To get something done.
• Defined goal• Estimated time
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Examples
‣Codendi (Web application)
‣Redmine (Web application)
‣Planner
‣QDPM (Web application)
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Contacts
www.pitechnologies.netWebsite:
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Twitter: @pitechnologiess
My mail: [email protected]
Thanks and best of luck .. AhmedYossef