{"id":1420,"date":"2017-01-12T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2023-02-12T14:13:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T19:13:31","slug":"dg-frd-project-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/dg-frd-project-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"FRD Section 1 \u2014 Project Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This section is comprised of the \u201cProject Overview\u201d section from your Problem Understanding Document, <strong>but <em>ONLY<\/em> the first paragraph and the stakeholders list\/table<\/strong>.\u00a0 To bring this content in, select the content in your Problem Understanding Document (all of it together as a single selection), copy, and select \u201cSELECT THIS PARAGRAPH\u201d (select the entire paragraph by triple-clicking anywhere in the paragraph).\u00a0 Then paste.\u00a0 The formatting, if you had it right in the Problem Understanding Document, will be correct.<\/p>\n<p>Take some time to update this in case names have changed, and also to refine it based on your much better understanding of the problem at this point.\u00a0 This will not take long, and will be time well spent to produce a document worthy of your hard work all year.\u00a0 <strong>And at the very least, update the verb tense so it makes sense now versus before; that is, the project is complete, you are not \u201cgoing to do\u201d things (future tense), they have been done (past tense) and the solution is what it is (present tense).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Think of it this way, you are describing a scene\u00a0\u2014 your situation as a team and project\u00a0\u2014 as of the time you set out back then.\u00a0 You do not talk about what was actually done since, that comes later.\u00a0 Some examples follow:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>\u201cTeam ##<em> was <\/em>[not \u2018has been\u2019] engaged to\u00a0\u2026\u201d; better yet, try \u201cWe were engaged to\u00a0\u2026\u201d, using \u201cWe\u201d instead of \u201cTeam ##\u201d or \u201cOur team was engaged to\u00a0\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSome of the primary challenges <em>were<\/em> [not \u2018are\u2019]\u00a0\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe <em>set out to produce<\/em> [not \u2018will be producing\u2019] a\u00a0\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cProving out with a more complex design <em>was considered<\/em> [not \u2018would be\u2019] ideal\u00a0\u2026 but until this simple circuit <em>was<\/em> [not \u2018is\u2019] proven feasible, complexity <em>would not<\/em> [not \u2018will not\u2019] be pursued.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, do not include use italics in your formatting.<\/p>\n<p>You can do this and can do it well, with just a small amount of time and a little <strong><em>thought<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You are now done with this section!<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a9 2017, William J. Endres<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right\">Updated February 12, 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section is comprised of the \u201cProject Overview\u201d section from your Problem Understanding Document, but ONLY the first paragraph and the stakeholders list\/table.\u00a0 To bring this content in, select the content in your Problem Understanding Document (all of it together as a single selection), copy, and select \u201cSELECT THIS PARAGRAPH\u201d (select the entire paragraph by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}