CS486 - Senior Capstone Design
Guidelines for Team Inventory

Description
After a design team has been initially structured, it is imperative that an inventory of talents, skills and special interests be established. The experiences, academic course history, special skills/talents, and interests of each individual team member must be inventoried and documented. This has several purposes:

For the client

This packet of information will provide the client with a preliminary overview of the team working on the project. This will allow the client to better understand what the team's strengths and weaknesses are, and how he/she can best support the team.

For the team

This provides the team with some knowledge of its collective strengths and weaknesses. Clearly, this information will be instrumental in individual task assignments, project selection, negotiating project specifications, establishing design philosophy and strategy, project scheduling, and overall project management. Moreover, this inventory may be used to restructure design teams if necessary.

Requirements
Each team must document and submit a Team Inventory. Each Team Inventory must conform to the following requirements:

• Create a professional memo addressed to your client as a cover sheet for your packet. This memo should (a) introduce the team members and their assigned roles (leader, documentation, website dude, etc.), and (b) describe any preliminary task assignments and (c) itemize special talent deficiencies for the team as a whole that may appear as a team weakness, along with a calming sentence stating what you are doing to fix it (e.g. "Will assign Team member X to study and do proof of concept project to learn this technology by Feb 1")
• Provide a Team Member Profile for each team member that itemizes each individual team member's qualifications. Specifically, list all upper division (300 and above) EE, CSE/CS and Math courses taken at NAU; work experience, special skills, personal interests, and any appropriate comments --basically an extraction of major highlights (only) relevant to this project from your resume. The goal is to build confidence that this is a well-matched team with appropriate skills to handle the project.
• Attach a professional quality resume for each team member. Just in case the client wants details.