Here are the formal, dated deliverables. Of course there are intermediate ones you will schedule individually, internally for the team and externally with your customer. And of course everything you do must be transparent - visible on the project web page and subject to surprise inspection.

• From first team meeting ...

• October ??: Vision statement and project web page.

• October ??: Looking for venture capital: project presentation.

• December ??: Requirements analysis (and more).
  • Use cases (customer approved as appropriate, prioritized)
  • Hardware and software requirements
  • Risk analysis (update)
  • Schedule (update)
  • Development methodology
  • Critique/analysis of work to date
  (more information to follow).

• Performance review

  Since we began the year with a simulated job interview we should finish with a simulated performance review, so I can decide by what percent to increase your salary. I will provide a signup sheet for these meetings. You should provide
  • An updated CV and web page (since you will be moving on ...)
  • A sample of your work on your project (code, perhaps documentation too). (This is in lieu of the code reviews we never got around too. And it's something you may be asked for at a job interview.)
  • A fair discussion of your sense of how your strengths and weaknesses affected your team's performance.

• May ??: Production release (1.0). The principle that governs the details of what you must do: leave the project in a state that the customer is pleased with, and that you would be pleased to maintain.

  • Complete tested application, installed/installable by customer (as appropriate).
  • Complete documentation (for users, installers, programmers) on web page. Proofread, of course.
  • Web page (probably at sourceforge) up to date, including sourceforge release and prominent pointer to list of known bugs (of course a production release should have no bugs - but this is real life ...)
  • Release flagged correctly in CVS tree.
  • Hard copy:
    • Acceptance from customer.
    • Appropriate documentation.
    • Bug list.
    • Your poster (framed, small format) for me to keep in my office to impress future SE classes.

• May ??: Presentation to public - poster and demo - at annual department Spring party.

• May ??: Maintenance release (1.1).

• June ?: Graduation.