Query 7: Project description ... continued

Submit as a pdf document in the Week-6 segment of the class Wiki.  Please see writing guidelines. Please prepare thoughtful, concise responses. Create one PowerPoint slide for each question,using at least 18 point font. Use the slide header to explain the content of each slide, based on the question in the query, and use Slide Notes to explain details.

• Assume that your audience is the project engineer of the sponsor organization for your project, the person with whom you will interact during the mini-internship. That is, assume interest in your project, but do not assume VDC familiarity;
• Prepare your submission as one element of a "portfolio" of your work that you could (if your sponsor gave you permission) put on your personal home page and share with friends and interested professionals;
• This is a group assignment to be completed jointly by your class project team.

Show a slide(s) of the following:

1. (5 points) Briefly summarize your recommendations for your sponsor to choose among two alternative design options (that you explain in more detail below), given your assumptions about your sponsor's objectives for your project (e.g., build a particular kind of building with certain objectives) and your team objectives (e.g., VDC guide; explain use of particular types of models and analyses).
   • In a simple m x n table of options vs. benefits and costs, frame the business decision for your sponsor regarding the choice between your baseline and an investment that enables a design alternative;
   • Show and explain your TEI analysis of the benefits and costs of the innovative option versus the baseline and annotate it to show how it relates to the business decision;
   • Show and explain any target value design analyses you did to define the basis for assumptions in the TEI model analysis.
2. (2 points) Show, compare and contrast product, organization and process models and analyses of Option-1 and Option-2 and annotate them to highlight a few similarities and differences between them.
   • Comment on the level of detail of each, how it has evolved since you first started the project and what you will propose to the sponsor for continued work.
3. (2 points) Comment on your results of three predictive analyses you have done. Summarize any engineering or construction issues the project team should note, based on your analyses. Insert one or a few annotated snapshots that illustrate your predictions.
4. (3 points) One part of a VDC guideline should be an "emergency procedures" section that helps a team to identify the presence of potential risk factors and mitigate them at a stage in the work process when it is most effective to do so.
   • Show one segment of your emergency procedures checklist that builds on any base product, organization and process models and analyses plus process performance metrics that a project team could use to identify the presence of two potential risk factors. Include:
     • Steps that conclude presence of the specific project risk factors;
     • Checks that enable the team to conclude that the risks are present;
     • Steps to take in presence of this situation;
• Annotate the checklist to indicate the product, organization and process elements to which the checklist refers;
• Comment on how you could or did build the checklist by elaborating information contained in the POP, product, organization or process models and your VDC use guideline.
5. (1 point) ORID analysis - briefly summarize the week:

• Objectives: What facts did you see, hear?
• Reflective Positive: What surprised or encouraged you positively?
• Reflective Negative: What surprised or encouraged you negatively?
• Interpretive: What patterns and insights did you get;  what are some  limits of what you saw?
• Decisional: Identify  your next steps

Comments

• How much time did you spend doing the homework?
• What was one thing you leaned in doing the homework?
• What is one thing you found confusing or irritating in doing the homework?
• Identify any RFIs you would like resolved by the time you do the final project submission.

Last revised: February 27, 2012