The examination of Project Mobile Development consists of three parts:
Product is examined during the final assessment session at school. This should take no more than one hour. During this examination also the results of the examination of the other two components (see below) will be communicated.
Examination of the product focuses on the mobile product made for the requirements owner and the associated artefacts.
The examination of Methods & Techniques and Process is competence based. For these examination each student shows he has the following skills:
The product result is a group mark between 1 (bad) and 10 (excellent). All students within a team will receive the same mark. If the grading would be less than 5.5 an improvement plan must be created and a re-assessment needs to be scheduled.
1. The Product will be assessed during a final assessment session in the class room;
2. The students will deliver a presentation and demonstration of the Product;
3. Each student will participate in the presentation;
4. Each student will present part of it.
During this presentation all aspects of the Product (reason why it was defined by the requirements owner; scope; project plan; architecture; design, coding, testing, and documentation; commercial aspects; and any other aspect deemed necessary by the team) will be presented.
The Product will be rated by the senior consultants based on the following criteria:
Prepare as a team a product presentation and a demo. Make sure the last versions of all artefacts are on the team site at least 3 work days before the examination.
The team shows the product to the senior consultants. The senior consultants fill in the product examination form.
Here we focus on the technical side of your product. The individual rating for M&T is a mark between 1 and 10. If the grading would be less than 5.5 an improvement plan must be created and a re-assessment needs to be scheduled.
The following competences will be reviewed:
1. Professional Expertise;
2. Research Skills.
The assessment is based on self-assessment and peer-assessment. This will be done as preparation by the students before the final assessment. This will be the input for a mark for M&T.
There will be a number of questions. See below for examples, which may be adapted yet. Students in a team rate themselves first by putting a small piece of paper containing their individual names on a master sheet containing 1 (insufficient) to 5 (excellent). Then they have to explain the chosen mark to the other student(s) within the team. After that there will be a team discussion whether the relative rating is agreed or not, and re-rating may occur. Finally all results are calculated into a single mark, and uploaded to the team website. The result will be reviewed and possibly adapted by the senior consultants. The result will be recorded in SIS.
The M&T results will be shared with the team immediately after the Product presentation.
Examples of questions are:
1. Give yourself 1-5 points for:
The quantity and quality of your contribution to the deliverables to the entire Mobile Project.
Deliverables are final products for the Product Owner such as planning, architecture, design, code, code reviews and test document, and user documentation.
2. Give yourself 1-5 points for:
How much you contributed to the process of cooperation during the entire Mobile Project.
Think here about the application of the development process (assumingly scrum), contribution to standups, retrospectives, resolution of impediments, and sprint planning. This also includes the blog.
3. Give yourself 1-5 points for:
In what sense did you develop yourself during the Mobile Project both technically and personally.
Did you define at the beginning what you wanted to learn during the Mobile Project? Did you actually achieve these learning goals and increased existing knowledge? Were these learning goals known by the other team members, and did the help you achieve these goal? Did you assess yourself on a continuous basis how to improve, and do you know your strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats?
Focus is on the student’s communication, collaboration and learning process. The individual rating for this component is “Passed” or “Failed”. If the result would be “Failed” an improvement plan must be created and a re-assessment needs to be scheduled.
The following competences are reviewed:
1. Communication Skills
* is client-oriented;
2. Team Collaboration
* task-oriented collaboration;
* team-oriented collaboration;
* team leadership;
3. Learning Ability
* reflection;
* self-management.
Process is rated “Passed” when the following conditions are met.
Progress of these deliverables will be assessed by the senior consultants during the course.
The final assessment will be done by the senior consultants before the Product presentation, and will be shared with the students immediately after the Product presentation.