Overview

The students are evaluated as a team. The Coach and Product Owner evaluate the team's work practices and intermediate/final results after each project review. The PO often has high expectations on the progress of the project. Just like in real projects, the team should try to set her expectations on a realistic level considering the available budget (effort) and the skills of the team.

Component When PO Coach TOTAL (max)
Work practices After each project review - 0-5p 15p
Project progress After each project review 0-5p   15p
Final results After the last project review 0-15p 0-15p 30p
EES participation After each EES - 0-0.5p 2p
TOTAL (max)       62p

The grade boundaries will be announced in the end of the course.


Evaluation of the work practices (by Coach)

After each project review, the Coach evaluates (0-5p) and comments the fulfillment of the requirements set in the Project Manual.

Aspects considered: 

  • Failing to fulfill a requirement or make the fulfillment visible to the Coach reduces points. 
  • By communicating problems early to the Coach, it becomes easier to fix them. Failing to identify problems or react to them may lead to reduced points.
  • Trying new work practices and tools, and analytically evaluating their usefulness for the project is considered positively in evaluation.

Coach: Work practices
5p - No major complaints, fulfills some requirements with distinction
4p - No major complaints
3p - Some major complaints
2p - Some major and lots of minor complaints
1p - Lots of major complaints
0p - Failed


Evaluation of the project progress (by PO) and final results (by Coach & PO)

In each project review, the PO uses the Evaluation form to evaluate the project progress after the previous project review, and considers also slightly team's work practices from her point of view (0-5p).

In the last project review both the PO and the Coach evaluate the final results (0-15p). The PO evaluates them in relation to the Product Vision whereas the Coach evaluates them in relation to other projects on this course.

The Coach also considers the difficulty of the project based on the team's analysis of it in the final report. The highest points (13-15p) are given only to difficult projects with exemplary results. Both an easy project with exemplary results and a difficult project with good results may get about the same points (10-12p).

PO: Project progress / Final results Coach: Final results
5p / 13-15p - Exceeds expectations
4p / 10-12p - Meets expectations 
3p / 07-09p - Slightly below expectations
2p / 04-06p - Clearly below expectations
1p / 01-03p - Far below expectations
0p / 0p - Failed		 13-15p - Exemplary results, difficult project
10-12p - Exemplary results, easy project
10-12p - Good results, difficult project  
07-09p - Satisfactory results
04-06p - Poor results
00-03p - Minimal results

Peer evaluation and personal changes to the grade (by team members)

If the team members contributed unevenly to the project, the team can propose personal changes of one grade. The sum of changes must be zero. The team should discuss the changes together and send a proposal to the Coach. If the team finds it difficult to agree on the changes, all team members can send their own proposal of changes with a short reasoning to the Coach. The proposals must be send to the Coach soon after the last project review at the lastest, and based on them the course personnel may adjust the personal grades by one. 

Even if there is no need to make personal changes to the grades, all team members should give feedback to each other of their work: what was good, where to improve.

Last modified: Friday, 27 September 2024, 2:48 PM