DPM: Design Project Management
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Course Deliverables and Grading

DPM is intended to help students transition from the academic routine of graded weekly homework assignments to the norm of performance feedback from their supervisor. However, we have found that students really seem to need the structure provided by weekly assignments. As a result, we require near-weekly submittals, but require re-writes of written deliverables. In addition, 20% of the course grade is related to an evaluation of your individual contributions to the classroom activities, your group project, and your individual tasks.

Deliverables and Points
Deliverable Type of Assessment Grading guide Due Date (Monday, 10am, of Week...) Percentage of DPM Grade
DPM Intro Group Rubric - Written Tasks Week 1, Monday, Midnight N/A (Included in Classroom)
Project Preferences

Carefully review the Team Values and Norms prior to class on Wednesday. You will be discussing this in your breakout session, so it will be important for you to be familiar with the document.

U&E Reading: Please read Chapter 1 of Ulrich & Eppinger. I will try to provide cross-references to U&E throughout the course.

Individual Rubric - Written Tasks Week 1, Monday, Midnight N/A (Included in Classroom)
Complete the on-line clipboard Initial Product Perspective Survey Individual N/A Week 1, Wednesday. Midnight N/A (Included in Classroom)
Prepare to Interview The Stakeholders Group Rubric - Written Tasks Week 2, Monday, 10am 4%
Written Customer Needs Assessment Raw data collection and interpretation. Use the results of your investigation thus far to edit the following Part I elements of your roadmap web site:
  • Stakeholders
  • Benchmarks
  • Affinity Diagrams
Group Rubric - Written Tasks Week 3, Monday, 10am 8%
Presentation of the Customer Needs Assessment for the Roadmap. Update your previous work from week 2, and use the results of your investigation thus far to edit the following Part I elements of your roadmap web site:
  • Objective Tree
  • Constraints
  • Voice of the Customer - Establish Measures of Effectiveness
  • Mission Statement

Present your Needs Assessment to the DPM class. Do Not prepare a separate presentation, but rather, use the published information from your web site to prepare a compelling summary of your findings to date.

Group Rubric - Presentation Week 4, Monday, 10am 8%
Written Customer Needs Assessment for the Roadmap
  • Function Tree
  • Map the Voice of the Customer to the Voice of the Engineer
Group Rubric - Written Tasks Week 5 8%
Classroom and Small Group Participation Individual Rubric - Participation Week 6 10%
Presentation of the System Architecture Concept for the Roadmap
  • Voice of the Engineer - Establish Measures of Performance
  • Preliminary Roadmap
Group Rubric - Presentation Week 7 8%
Written System Architecture Concept for the Roadmap
  • Develop a mission statement for each functional module
  • Propose a Function - Means Matrix for each Module
  • Identify Critical Interface Parameters Between Modules
Group Rubric - Written Tasks Week 8 8%
REVISED Written Customer Needs Assessment for the Roadmap Group Rubric - Written Tasks Week 10 8%
Written Project Readiness Package for each discrete project within the roadmap
  • Develop a PRP which can be used for multiple parallel projects (investigating the various means) associated with each function.
  • Revise and Update the mission statement for each functional module.
  • Revise and Update the Roadmap Timeline and all earlier documents
Individual Rubric - Written Tasks Week 11 10%
Presentation of Project Readiness Package for each discrete project within the roadmap Individual Rubric - Presentation Week 11 8%
REVISED Written System Architecture Concept for the Roadmap Group Rubric - Written Tasks Week 11 10%
Classroom and Small Group Participation Individual Rubric - Participation Week 11 10%

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