Com S 362 --- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

	      HOMEWORK 2: TEAM PROJECT INCEPTION PHASE
		 (File $Date: 2002/02/04 18:38:13 $)

Due: by Feb. 6, 2002 at 11AM

50 points

This homework is the inception phase of your team project.
You should make a web site with your artifacts (which are mostly text)
for the inception phase.  Your task is to:

(a) determine the appropriate artifacts for the inception phase of
    your project, and
(b) create those artifacts.

Look in the first seven chapters of Larman's book
(Applying UML and Patterns, 2nd ed.) for a discussion of what kinds of
artifacts to create.  However, don't make the mistake of doing too
much planning and too much analysis in this phase.  We will take
points off if you do too much (really), since the whole point of
inception is to do just enough to decide whether and how to continue
in the elaboration phase.  Instead, if you finish early,
hand in what you have done that is appropriate, and then if you have
more time, start on the elaboration phase.

As the purpose of inception is to decide if you want to continue your
project, you should try to finish this homework early, so that, if you
decide you don't want to continue with your original project, you will
have time to find another project, make sure we approve that, and redo
the inception phase for it.

WHAT TO HAND IN

You work will be judged on whether you have chosen an appropriate set
of artifacts and an appropriate level of detail for the inception
phase, and on the quality of those artifacts.  We expect to see some
use cases, with a small fraction done in detail, and perhaps a revised
vision statement.   The appropriateness of your work will be judged on
how well you have identified the risks in your project, and your
should concentrate your efforts on finding out what the risks are and
gathering enough information about them to begin exploring them in
more detail in the first elabortation iteration.  You may want to say
something about the risks in a revised vision statement, if that is
appropriate. 

Also, don't forget to hand in 
the course's "Certification of Individual
Contribution and Understanding Form".  You can find this form in 3
formats from the course web pages at the URI:
  http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs362/docs/
or on the department machines in the directory
  /home/course/cs362/public/docs/
The certification form must be printed and signed, you cannot turn
that in by email.

For this homework, it's probably best to turn everything in as a
printout.  However, if you have a web site that has lots of hyperlinks
that don't work on paper, point us to where it is instead of giving us
a printout.