Legacy Document Guidelines

As you proceed through the development of your chosen software product, you should begin the final document required for this course--the legacy document. You may consider the legacy document your team's diary of project activity. My expectations of the legacy document are somewhat different from those usually found in practice. The rationale for this document is to give you a place to collect various information about the project over time and to react to certain activities during the semester. It is an opportunity for each of you to consider the experiences of the semester. The format of the legacy document is --

Section 1: Project Description

Provide an overview of the project your group worked on. This should be some combination of the problem statement and solution strategy from the system definition.

Section 2: Current Status of Project

Describe the nature of the process through which the group has gone. Try to present a sense of where the group is on the project versus where I think they should be, and why there is a discrepancy between these views.

Section 3: Initial Expectations

Each has team member prepared a statement.

Section 4: Technical Lessons Learned

Each team member should write a short narrative regarding what technical lessons were learned during the project. Be sure that each team member is named within the portion they write.

Section 5: Managerial Lessons Learned

Each team member should write a short narrative regarding what management lessons were learned during the project. Be sure that each team member is named within the portion they write.

Section 6: Recommendations for Future Projects

Section 7: Final Comments

A narrative from each team member that summarizes the experience(s) of the semester. Look back at you initial expectations and react to them. Give serious attention to what you have done/learned/not learned during the semester.

APPENDIX I: Progress Reports (those you submit, and I comment on)

APPENDIX II: Minutes from all Meetings (group and/or subgroup)

APPENDIX III: Reviews or correspondence related to the project

This document should be wordprocessed and submitted in a three-ring binder.