Preliminary Design Executive Summary

Preliminary Design Review Executive Summary

Project Title: [Your Project Title]
Team Name: [Your Team Name]
Date: [Submission Date]

1. Project Overview

• Briefly describe the problem your project aims to solve.
• Briefly provide overview of Key Success Measures

2. Concept Architecture Summary

• Describe/demonstrate chosen concept/architecture
• Explain how this plan will meet your project’s requirements
• How does your design lend itself to being tested so that your results can be verified?
• How does this plan help meet the project’s value proposition?

3. Preliminary Design

• Summarize the state of your design. Where are you in your current design? What else do you need to figure out? What concerns do you have? What key design decisions will need to be made shortly? What potential roadblocks do you foresee? What do you need to do to overcome those roadblocks?
• Reference visual representations such as: UML diagrams, flowcharts, use case diagrams, block diagrams, sketches or preliminary drawings, schematics, wireframes, proof of concept prototypes, test procedure plans, preliminary calculations, models, etc. Use references to more detailed artifacts and summarize in the Executive Summary.

4. Schedule and Work Plan

· Key tasks and dates to consider for entire scope of project (purchase orders, long lead-time hardware, etc)

· Details about work plan until the next Design Review