2. Yarl Geek Challenge
The IT talent search

3. DESIGN ROUND

4. What is Software Design
 Sketch of the Software development plan in
some form
 Software design helps to bridge the
requirements with the development
 In industry, software design is essential for
bigger projects
 Is it important for the smaller projects?

5. Why it is important
 It helps to illustrate the plan in an easier way
 Maps are easier to understand than the words
explaining a route
 Software design is the developer's medium to
understand the requirements
 It helps to get the overall picture

6. Why it is in the Geek Challenge
 Competitors can express their plan through the
design
 Judges and the competitors can have different
views about the scope of the selected project
 Design round will give the competitors a chance
to explain their plan
 It will help the audience to get a better picture
 Competitors will get a chance to learn during the
competition period

7. What is expected to express
 Overall design of the system (the big picture)
 Lower level diagrams to explain the heart of
the system
 Important logic of the system can be explained
through sequence diagrams or activity diagrams
 Technology stack
 What is the technologies to be used
 Justification for choosing them

8. What is expected to express
 Any more designs which can help to explain
the system's design in a better way
(Unconventional approach)
 Any fancy business process diagrams :)

9. What judges would expect
 Cohesion
 How comprehensive was it
 How well it has covered the project scope
 How well Over all design is expressed
 How easy it was to understand
 Relevancy between the project requirements and
design
 Whether each of the design aspects are relevant to
the proposed requirement in the technical market

10. What judges would expect
 Innovative
 Usage of the innovative design techniques or
tools to illustrate the design
 Chosen technologies
 How suitable was the technology stack
 Whether competitors are aware of the latest
trend in the technical market

11. What judges might ask from you
 Can ask you to elaborate more about your
design
 Judges might try to find the flaws in your
design and ask you to defend your design
decisions
 Judges would provide a different scenario and
ask you to draw a design on the white board
 So be ready tackle the judges :)

12. Some suggestions to score
 Get together as team and discuss
 Make use of your mentor
 You need to show difference from others to
score more
 It is a competition
 So think out of the box
 Plan it well
 Interview previous year's participants

13. Thank you!