Project Presentation

Where:	Lecture room
When:	See schedule on Lecture page.
Duration:	25 minutes, including setup & discussion time.

• Be ready to begin your presentation at any time during the lecture period in which it is scheduled.
• All team members present, and must be prepared to answer questions.
• The intended audience is: 
• a venture capitalist or user
• the venture capitalist's or user's technical expert.
• Your goal: Persuade:
• The venture capitalist or user to embrace your vision of your product/service/game
• The technical expert that you have: 
• identified the key technical issues (i.e., the most difficult technical issues)
• have a high quality design with respect to these key technical issues.
• To achieve your goal, present the information you developed in the process of developing your project, such as:
  1. Vision, including a summary of important use cases.
  2. A class diagram.
  3. Project architecture (e.g., package diagram), & key design elements.
• You may demonstrate your project's features. It is not required. If you do:
• Package the complete system, including the Java Runtime Environment: 
• Bring a laptop. Have a contingency plan, in case your demonstration does not work. 
• You may use my computer to show PowerPoint or other presentations. 
• Have a back-up plan in case your PowerPoint does not run on the class computer.
• Practice your presentation to ensure that it conveys what you want, and completes within the time frame.

When judging your presentation, beyond the content that is mentioned above, we seek an effective presentation. Here is the form that we and the students fill out for each presentation: Evaluation form.

A few tips

• Yes, this is part of your grade, but your life does not depend on how you do on this presentation. Accept in advance that your presentation is not going to be perfect. The goal is to gain the experience, and to learn from it. Speaking is a skill. Like riding a bike, it takes practice. Be patient with yourself.
• Relax. Breathe. You are among friends. We are interested in what you have to say.
• Keep eye contact: When you are speaking, always look at some particular person in the audience. Speak to that particular person. Casually move your eyes and focus among the individuals in the audience.