Due: self-scheduled, no later than 2/28/20 at 5:15 pm
Category: strategic plan
To run smoothly and be successful, every project needs a strategic plan. A strategic plan:
- sets SMART goals for your project (specific, manageable, actionable, realistic, and time-framed)
- breaks down the steps necessary to achieve each goal
- maps the steps to a weekly calendar
- assigns roles and responsibilities to members of your group
Your strategic plan should incorporate course assignments, ideally linking them to your project goals and timing them accordingly:
- Fixed deadlines
- Provisional Bibliography (2/6) – individual
- Bibliography Annotations (2/11) – individual
- Wireframe sketch (2/20 in class) – individual or group
- Content Draft (3/19) – group
- Prototype 1 (4/2) – group
- Prototype 2 (4/23) – group
- Self-scheduled deadlines
- Strategic Plan (by 2/28/20) – group
- Lit Review (including map & SSRs) – individual
- Outreach & Sustainability Plan – group
- Final Project (no later than 5/5) – group
- White Paper (no later than 5/11) – group
The slide deck for strategic planning is linked in the “From your instructors” section of this site. You can find sample strategic plans (created by professors for their semesters, so not a perfect match) in the course DropBox folder. Here’s a template based on our slide deck that you can copy and use (if you want). Here’s an alternate template, based on Suzanne’s semester strategic plan, that you can copy and use (if you want).
