CITS3200 Professional Computing
Guidelines for Mentors and Students
These guidelines are written for the Mentors. A secondary
purpose is to provide information on the process for students.
Purpose of Mentors
The mentoring process is designed to
- Support
project groups during the project
- Give
guidance on techniques common to all projects, e.g. project planning,
testing
- Assist
with the conduct of a post mortem
- Identify
project groups or individuals at risk
- To
help individuals to gain the most from the project (through reflection)
The Mentor is to
act as a Consultant on the process and standard techniques.� project groups are likely to be short of project
management skills and this is likely to be a fruitful area for guidance from
the mentor.
Meetings and Other Contact
There are to be four meetings with the Mentor
and Project Group. Meetings must take place in the weeks provided in the
Timetable as these are keyed to deliverables,
but the times and venues should suit the Mentor's work commitments.
Duration of meetings is 45 minutes.
Content of Meetings
Mentors will actively lead the discussion in meetings
according to a pre-arranged agenda. The meetings will focus as follows:
- Preview
of the project and Deliverables A and
B in the first two meetings;
- The
third meeting is a Preview of the Code and Implementation for
Deliverable C and to generally see that things are on track;
- The
last is a Post Mortem.
Project groups should keep minutes of Mentor
meetings.
The Mentor
should advise the Unit Coordinator if there are problems with a project group, or
inconsistencies between project groups or projects, lack of programming skills, undue
conflict and the like.
Created by Richard Thomas August 8 2002
Most recent modification by Michael Wise
May 11 2009