1. Listen and evaluate another tech briefing: Zoho (Tim & David). We’ll spend 10-15 minutes hearing from them and another 5-10 completing their evaluation form. Their deliverable is here.

2. Close up the Instructions Project. Your final deliverables for the Instructions Project are due Thursday before midnight. We’ll review the delivery requirements, the team evaluation form, and look at an example of a letter of transmission for the S.S. Save Wheezy instructions & usability report we viewed earlier in this unit.

3. Slideshow: What’s a feasibility study? Slides here.

4. Look at recent examples of feasibility studies IRL. Get into groups by major and pick a feasibility study to review from the list below. Ask yourselves the questions form the last slide above. Talk about this for 10-15 minutes and get ready to share.

Public admin/management:

–Bicycle Commuter Corridor Study from Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council

Engineering:

–Onondaga Lake Wastebeds Study from the NYDEC
–Kenilworth Park Landfill Site from the National Park Service
–Greenhouse Gas Management (NYC Dept of Environmental Protection)

Accounting or management:

–On Using CPA Firms from Auditor of Public Accounts, Virginia
–Enterprise Data to Revenue Project (California Franchise Tax Board)

Technology:

–Los Angeles County WiFi Feasibility Report from Los Angeles County

5. Look at examples from this class. These executive summaries were culled from more memorable final reports of previous semesters. Apply the same questions from the slides and come up with 2-3 ideas for your own project.