CS224 -- Spring 2012

Project #1

Team Progress Report #1

Due Date: The Team Progress Reports are due at the same time and place as the reports and checkpoints for other parts of the project are due.

Submission Rule: Each group must submit a Team Progress Report for each project checkpoint where it is specified and required. Failure to submit this report will have very negative effects on the grade of group members!

Grading: The Team Progress Reports reveal the degree of participation and teamwork of each student doing the project.  As such, they will affect the Participation Grade of each member of the project team.

Format: The report should be typed, and printed out on a high quality printer.  Its appearance should be professional, clean and neat throughout. It should be stapled in the upper left-hand corner, with the sections arranged in the order given (above) and submitted without a folder. Each of the sections in the body of the report should begin at the top of a new page.

Contents: The Team Progress Reports should contain the following sections. Except for the cover page, each of these sections should begin at the top of a new page:

·         Cover page, containing the course number, semester name and year, name and number of the progress report, group #, name/ID/phone/email listed for each group member, along with the signature in ink of each person (signatures in pencil are invalid and unacceptable), and submission date. It should follow the format given at this link, but personalized for your group, of course. All members of the project team must sign the Honor Pledge, otherwise the report will not be accepted!

·         An Essay about the topic: "What we learned by peer reviewing and grading the Preliminary Design Reports of 3 other groups". This essay may be written by one author or more than one. It should speak for the whole group, mentioning all the things learned by the group members in doing the peer reviews.

·         Group Progress Report, listing the following:

a) the meetings held by the team (both physical and virtual meetings) since the beginning of the project. For each physical or virtual meeting, give the date, location, starting and ending time, names of those who attended, activities and accomplishments of the meeting

b) the progress and accomplishments of the group since the beginning of the project. List the specific things done partially or completely, and the date they were accomplished.

c) the contributions of each member (in separate lists, one per member). [Note: by “contribution”, we mean the actual ideas/approaches/methods that are in the project , accepted by the other group member(s), and the work done which has moved the project forward toward completion.] Each member of the group should list the contributions they have made toward the items listed in b) above, since the beginning of the project.

·         Teamwork Report: each member of the group will write a personal section, headed by their name, in which they judge and assess the overall teamwork of the group so far, commenting on communication, attitude and participation of each group member, as follows:

a) Evaluate yourself regarding the following aspects of teamwork: quality and quantity of communicaiton within the team, attitudes toward the project, the work effort and the other team member(s), participation level (attendance at meetings, research, background work, effort of all kinds).

b) Evaluate your teammate(s) regarding the same aspects of teamwork listed in a)

·         Time Logs: each member of the group will submit a Project Time Log, which lists each activity they have performed or participated in, since the start of the project, along with the time spent on it. The form of the spreadsheet to be used is given here at this link.