This document provides information and expectations for project documentation in a course. It outlines the assessment items and their due dates, including weekly project journals, a draft project report due in week 7, a project presentation in week 12, and a final report due in week 13. It provides guidelines for the structure and content of the draft and final reports. It advises students to review past student reports as examples and begin working on their draft reports by developing the literature review and revising it to fit within the report structure. The document emphasizes incorporating regular writing time into project plans and meeting with supervisors weekly with completed project journal entries.

1. PMO 303
Week 2:Planning your
documentation

2. Project update
• Outline the project activities
you did this week
• 1 minute update each

3. Today…
• Project Documentation
• Draft & Final Reports –
expectations
• Structure
• Getting started
• Meet with supervisors

4. PROJECT REPORTING

5. Assessment
Item Value Deliverables Due Date
Project
Journals
10% Use template in LL
Weekly
Wednesday
COB
Draft Project
Report
25% 10 pages approx Friday Week 7
Project
Presentation
25%
1 min oral
1 slide
1 poster
Week 12
Final report [+
solution where
appropriate]
40%
No more than 30
pages.
Week 13

6. Draft Project Report
• title page (project title; your
name; client name)
• an abstract,
• table of contents
• introduction,
• project aims,
• background research/lit review
• an overview of the project
approach/methodology
• progress so far
• conclusion
• references

7. Final Report
(a) Title Page
(b) Abstract Page
(max 350 words.)
(c) Acknowledgments
(d) Table of contents
(page no’s )
(e) Lists of Symbols; Tables;
Figures
(f) Report
1. Introduction
2. A description of the aim of the
project.
3. Background research.
4. A description of the methods used,
including justification of the choices
made where appropriate.
5. Analysis and discussion
6. Conclusions:
(g) Lessons Learned
(h) References CDU Harvard
(i) Appendices:
These are not counted as part of the
word limit.

8. Past Project reports
• Go to the resources section
for Week 2 and find three
past reports.
• Check out the content,
structure & presentation

9. STARTING YOUR DRAFT
REPORT

10. back to the draft report………..
• title page (project title; your name; client
name)
• an abstract,
• table of contents
• introduction,
• project aims,
• background research/lit review
• an overview of the project
approach/methodology
• progress so far
• conclusion
• references
What have you
done already in
the lit review?

11. What will you need to rewrite?
• title page (project title; your name;
client name)
• an abstract,
• table of contents
• introduction,
• project aims,
• background research/lit review
• an overview of the project
approach/methodology
• progress so far
• conclusion
• references
What will
you need
to revise?

12. so what new writing is needed?
• title page (project title; your name;
client name)
• an abstract,
• table of contents
• introduction,
• project aims,
• background research/lit review
• an overview of the project
approach/methodology
• progress so far
• conclusion
• references

13. getting started….
• save as Lit Review
• Insert structure of
draft report
• Edit lit review &
and other changes
recommended in
the feedback from
markers/supervisor
What else?????

14. Build this into your plan
• review your plan
• incorporate some time for
writing each week
• confirm with supervisor

15. Questions

16. Next Week
• Before next week
– Rejig your lit review into the beginnings of
your draft report
– post in journal for Barbara to check
Next week
• Rewrite your abstract
– use exercises in Learnline
– post in journal for supervisor to check
– when happy – include in working draft report
• Progress update

17. PROJECT JOURNAL &
SUPERVISOR MEETINGS

18. Project journal
1. Work completed– progress
since last meeting
2. What’s going well and why?
3. What’s not going well and
why?
4. Meeting/ discussion points
5. Plan for next week
Just
like
semester
1

19. Meeting with supervisors
• You are expected to meet with your
supervisor weekly
• Before the start of each class, complete
the project journal
• Project diaries are a component of your
assessment for this semester
• This is required preparation for each
meeting.
– No diary entry = no supervisor meeting
(internal or external)

20. Questions