INFO 243 : DOCUMENT ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

Document Engineering in the News  

Assigned January 28

Due February 6

Graded

Assignment description:

  • Your assignment is to analyze a "Document Engineering in the News" story using the D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T checklist described in the January 28 lecture. You can find your story on the web, in the library, in newspapers or magazines. The only requirements for the story that you find are that (a) it was published since 2006 and (b) you can provide a URL or a bibliographic citation for it and (c) no one else in the class has claimed it first by posting the URL or citation to the course list serve. Follow the link for complete instructions.

Course Project   

Assigned February 11

Due May 12

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This assignment kicks off the course project.
  • It describes several deliverables and milestones (proposal, initial presentation, two progress reports, final presentation, and final report). You'll get feedback on all of them, but only the last two ones are explicitly graded.

Pattern Scavenger Hunt / Study Guide  

Assigned February 13

Due March 3

Graded

Assignment description:

  • The purpose of this assignment is to give you some familiarity with a few of the many pattern libraries and standards repositories that can help you in Document Engineering projects.

Business Patterns  

Assigned March 3

Due March 12

Graded

Assignment description:

  • The purpose of this assignment is to test your understanding of the patterns for business models, business processes, and document exchange.

Requirements and Inventory  

Assigned March 12

Due April 7

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This assignment gives you practice at systematizing requirements and process descriptions

Modeling Processes   

Assigned April 7

Due April 15

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This group assignment gives you practice at analyzing processes and creating modeling artifacts like sequence diagrams, blueprints, and process worksheets.

Document Analysis  

Assigned April 16

Due April 29

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This assignment gives you practice at information component and document analysis, and in relating document analysis to business process analysis. You will do this work in the context of your course project.

Aggregate Components and Document Model Assembly  

Assigned April 28

Due May 7

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This assignment gives you practice at identifying aggregate components and in assembling document models from your set of primitive and aggregate components. You will do this work in the context of your course project.

last updated on 2008-05-10 by RJG