Team Formation Details for MPCS 51205

Each iteration will deliver an incremental accretion of work toward the final project deliverable.  Some assignments will require you to work individually and each team member will submit his or her deliverable, and other assignments will require you to work as a team and submit a single team deliverable.  Generally (see specifics within each Iteration), each student will be responsible for delivering some piece of the work (documentation, code, etc.).  You will be evaluated on the clarity and depth of your analysis of these and other deliverables.  "Deep Thinking" as well as "Shallow Thinking" are generally obvious.  Deep Thinking requires time and....thought.

Unless use of a tool is specified, you may take pictures of whiteboards, papers, napkins, etc. as submission artifacts.  However, some artifact deliverables will need to be in the form of formal models.  When a formal artifact is required, it will be so specified.

See the syllabus for information on grading.  Turning in Iteration assignments is required.  Submit your assignments as a tarball to the repository according to the directions on each Iteration page.

Initial Iteration   Due: 5:00 pm, Monday, October 12, 2020

Deliverable One:  Team Membership & Name

This first week you have one assignment.  You are to form a team with other students in the class.  Each team should have four students.  Reach out to other students (use piazza to do this) and work with the TAs to make sure you are on a team by October 12, 2020.  Note that teams that contain graduating students will be required to present their final project on November 30, 2020, whereas teams with all non-graduating students will present their final project on December 7, 2020.  If you are a graduating student, you should seek out other graduating students to form your team.

Once your team of four students is formed, choose one of your teammates to send an email to Professor Shacklette, cc'ing Terry Lynch, John Hadidian-Baugher, Alan Salkanović with (a) a list of your team members and (b) a name for your team.  NO team may have more than 4 students.  Each team is required to create a name and communicate that name.  The name can be anything you choose, but you have to decide on one.  In the past, teams have chosen names such as:  Cubs, Cubbies, White Sox, DaBears, RootinTootinTexans, etc.  Feel free to be creative.

In the event that certain students add or drop, the initial composition of a given team may change.  Nonetheless, teams need to be formed by the end of week one.

Grading of this Assignment:  All students who are named on a team on October 12 will receive full credit for this iteration.  Any student who is on the roster at the beginning of the course who is not on a team by October 12 will receive a 0 for this iteration.