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Career Preparation and Software Engineering Capstone Project
Fall-Winter-Spring Quarters 2009-2010
http://cs.oregonstate.edu/capstone
Latest update: October 15, 2009
A Requirements Document outlines your project so that (1) you know what you are doing, and (2) your Client knows what they are getting. It is always a good idea to get that fixed ahead of time.
Here is the format I want you to follow:
PDF, to see it
Word, to write your own.
In that document, it mentions a doing a Gantt Chart.
This can be done any software way you want that takes task durations and dependencies into account.
Project Management software, such as Microsoft Project does a very nice job.
Do not draw a Gantt chart by hand.
It won't take dependencies into account.
You can do the Gantt chart with Microsoft Project, which you can
You can get Microsoft Project for free through the Academic Alliance. (* see below)
Project is really easy to learn, easy to update information in,
and generates your charts automatically.
PDF, to see it
Project, to do your own.
In the requirements document description, it mentions doing a Dataflow Sequence Diagram.
This can be done any (neat) way you want.
Some people find PowerPoint a good drawing program for this:
PDF, to see it
PowerPoint, to do your own.
* You can get Microsoft Project Professional 2007 for free by signing up for the MSDN Academic Alliance. To do that, login to the CoE teach system. Under External Links, click MSDNAA Site Login. This will allow you to download Project, and a bunch of other packages, for free.
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