{"id":20,"date":"2023-11-22T20:59:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T20:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/?p=20"},"modified":"2023-11-22T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T21:00:12","slug":"swot-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/2023\/11\/22\/swot-you-say\/","title":{"rendered":"SWOT you say?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d like to bring up some highlights of the online Capstone course (CS467) during the Fall of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strengths<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Great introduction in the post-bacc program to working with a larger team than just a partner project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strong outcome of the course for students is strong communication skills. Without communicating well during the project, then the entire team&#8217;s progress tends to suffer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tons of great project ideas. The hardest question for newcomers coming into the Software Development field is &#8220;what should I build&#8221;. So the fact that there are lots of interesting projects, and even projects that where you could be working with industry\/sponsor code base is even better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weaknesses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Accountability of others for completing tasks. No negative benefit of not completing tasks, other than project goals becomes further delayed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I found out mid way through the course about the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.oregonstate.edu\/EECS\/vip\">Vertically Integrated Program (VIP)<\/a> which I would have been a lot interested in. Maybe that should be better advertised somewhere within the first week so that gives time for those interested\/accepted to drop in\/out of the course? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mandatory live quarter check in with the team. Was thinking it&#8217;d be a good idea to have a live session with the team to gauge the overall process\/progress of the team in a synchronous environment rather than asynchronously. It also allows the team to engage with the professor\/teaching assistants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Someone could make an application to help with recruiting teammates for this course. The information would be &#8220;live&#8221; in a sense that you can add POST yourself, project preferences, contact (email, discord, etc.) and skill set. Then later people can PUT or update their own status on if they found a group or not, or otherwise delete their &#8220;looking for group&#8221; entry. The &#8220;looking for team&#8221; board would also be searchable and can be filtered on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enforce project management. Initially tried to do sprints, however that died off after a few weeks. This could be a learning opportunity for those wanting to land a job in the industry to be familiar with scrum, agile, and keeping tallies on the expected work to be completed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Threats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No major threats I&#8217;ve identified in this course!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to bring up some highlights of the online Capstone course (CS467) during the Fall of 2023. Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs467"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/steventran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}