1. Group Presentations2. Group Submittal2.1) Current State Narrative Summary2.2) Future State Narrative Summary2.3) MACDADI Model, including information (models) for your project and specific decision2.4) Innovation3 Individual Write-upGradingCEE 215 Group Project AssignmentsFall 2008This document details each of the CEE 215 Group Project Assignment’s three parts:1) Group Presentation2) Group Submission (to be posted to the web)3) Individual Reflections (to be submitted to coursework)These will be submitted twice: Midterm & Final. For the midterm, you are expected tosupply the information described below only up through the Teams and Goals Models. The project is structured: it has required elements, and strives to achieve specific goals.However, the project also allows room for innovation and creativity; some of therequirements are open-ended. We intend the outline below to be instructive, and not toprevent you from innovating or improving based on your project results. Please ask foradditional information or feedback, or make suggestions, if you are unclear about any ofthe specific requirements.1. Group Presentations The goal of the Group Presentation is to share, in a succinct, informative, and thoughtprovoking manner, the major findings and insights of your group project.During the midterm you will have 10 minutes to present and discuss your work duringthe midterm, and 20 minutes to present and discuss your work during the final.Visual aids for the presentations are at the discretion of the group. Please ensure allmembers attend on time, and check for technical issues prior to your presentation. Timespent dealing with technical issues will be taken out of your presentation time.2. Group SubmittalThe goal of the Group Submittal is to share (in an organized and transparent form) thework your group has performed throughout the quarter, highlighting the major findingsand insights gained.Your submittal should be accessible on line. In addition to the decision title and team member and mentor names, the Group Submittalshould include the following four elements (which the subsequent text details):2.1) Current State Narrative and descriptions2.2) Future State Narrative and descriptions2.3) MACDADI models and descriptions2.4) InnovationFollowing are the description of each of these elements.12.1) Current State Narrative SummaryA Current State Narrative describes the information and processes executed or likely tobe executed to make the design decision(s) on your project. This model shoulddemonstrate how your decision of interest is being made on projects today, and should bebased on your observation of current practice. Please include these parts:A. Narrative - link to on-line version.B. Description Text description of what your narrative represents. C. Methods Text discussion of how you built it (using what methods- whatcombination of document review, interviews, and other means).D. Insights Text discussion of your observations and insights from the modeldevelopment exercise.2.1.A. Narrative Below is a sample of how a Current State Narrative might look. Theinstructions for how to post a narrative on line are found in the Tools and Processessection of the class Wiki.https://www.stanford.edu/group/narratives/community/ABC%20Hospital%20Structural%20Design%20Process2.1.B. Description This sample explains the narrative illustration’s meaning:“Figure 2.1.a: Current State Narrative (read from left to right) a) during the projectdefinition phase, various stakeholder define project requirements and assumptions; b)during pre-design phase, architects and engineers begin preliminary design c) preliminaryanalyses of structural system cost is performed while architect continues to gatherinformation d) early in conceptual design the design team selects a structural system, e)architect tries to coordinate service lines with structural system; and critique of decisionprocess is performed….”2.1.C. Methods This sample explains how one Current State Model was created:2“…Members of our group attended two design team project meetings. In addition weconducted three phone interviews (with 2 decision makers, 1 designer.) Throughobservation and discussion we were able to create a basic diagram of the decisionprocess. We then showed this diagram to one of the decision makers previouslyinterviewed. He confirmed the diagram looked accurate, and provided additionalinformation about the owner’s project goals (see project goals node.) We found most ofthe project documents on the project “workplace” website which is an one-line repositoryfor project….”2.1.D. Insights This sample explains the novel ideas this exercise produced:“…One of the biggest insights our group observed was a noticeable lack ofcommunication between the architectural team and the engineering team. While parallelstudies were on-going, the engineer created structural options and analyzed these optionswithout contextual information available to the architects about specific site conditions.We were surprised to see that the team never generated any project specific designs oranalyses for the structural system decision, but rather seemed to rely on generic data. Thestructural decision was made independently from understanding of the site; as a result,the site conditions were made to fit the structural choice rather than the structural choiceaccommodating the pre-existing site conditions….” 2.2) Future State Narrative SummaryGoal: A Future State Narrative critiques the Current State Narrative by proposing animproved process by which to make the decision. We expect each of these Future StateNarratives will include a MACDADI enabled process. Please include:A. Narrative Visual representation on wiki and link to on-line version.B. Description Text description of what your narrative represents. C. Methods Text discussion of how you built it (using what methods- whatcombination of document review, interviews, and other means).D. Insights Text discussion of your observations and insights from the modeldevelopment exercise.2.2.A. Narrative Below is a sample visual representation of a Future State process for ahospital project.NOTE:
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