Presentation Instructions

Each presentation should take approximately 5 minutes and cover the following material:

1. Goals (30 seconds)

• Pull these from your elevator summary, user stories and/or README

2. Demo (2 minutes)

• You don't have to demonstrate all of the functionality, just the high points.
• In particular, demonstrating the ability to sign in/sign up is a poor use of time unless there is something special about you sign in/up process.

3. Lessons Learned (1 minute)

• This can be cathartic!

4. Question and Answer time (up to 5 minutes)

• There will be questions, I promise. Ask for questions and then pause while people gather their thoughts.

Important points to remember:

• You should use the slide deck in this folder (or a similar one of your own creation) to assist in your presentation. Filling in the presentation template I have provided (presentation-template.html, in this directory) should take you no more than 5 minutes.
• If you have a slide deck through an online service, ensure that you have a local copy of it just in case.
• Make sure that you have an appropriate dongle for your laptop (or that one will be available to you the day of the presentations).
• Speak loudly and clearly, facing your audience.
• DO NOT emphasize broken parts of the program. If you notice a bug while you're presenting, just gloss past it. This is an important skill to learn for giving product demos.
• DO NOT insult your own work. People tend to take a person's self-evaluation at face value and you'll simply be setting people up to think your work is sub-par.
• Avoid referencing other student's presentations in a "well, they covered everything I had to say on my lessons learned". Your presentation should stand alone.
• Your presentation and application should be complete the evening before presentations. You are expected to have your laptop closed and your attention on the presenter during the presentations.

Presentation Order

There will not be substitutions in the presentation order.