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Guidance - Individual Interim Report v3
Guidance - Individual Interim Report v3
Guidance - Individual Interim Report v3
Guidance Notes
To ensure that your individual interim report covers the main points please
note the following:
The Individual Interim Report accounts for 25% of the assessment for
this module, and is also an important opportunity for individual students
to achieve recognition for the value of their individual contributions to
the group project. As a guide, a word count of 1500 - 2000 words
would be appropriate (excluding the attachments provided as
appendices).
1. Team Name
Team name or company name with your company logo.
Team Structure.
Produce an organisation chart prepared for your company.
2. Introduction
Write an introduction,
1. Objectives of this report
eg Our company was formed in 2010 with the mission to
commercialise a new technology for .. This report presents an
assessment of the progress made in developing our business plan,
from a marketing (or engineering, or intellectual property etc.)
perspective.
2. About your product.
3. About your company
3. Progress to date
3.1 Briefly summarize the overall current status of your groups project.
Use a Gantt chart to explain the progress up to date.
3.3.1 Summarize the tasks that you have carried out and the
approach you are taking to fulfilling the responsibilities of your
role.
3.3.2 What do you expect to produce and include within the eventual
business plan for your product?
4.1 The final choice of product by the group was the .., but we
considered several alternative product ideas before making this
selection. (You might list them here, if you wish).
4.2 I came up with the idea for a (or was asked to look at the idea for
a .) and carried out an assessment of the product using a diagnostic
approach. This covered a range of commercial considerations, and is
presented in Appendix 1.
5. Project Management
5.3 What did you do in response to the minutes, were actions followed up?
5.4 Did all team members work equally as hard, are there any mitigating
circumstances that made it difficult for you to participate effectively?
Consider their contribution for each task and calculate their average
contribution for the project. Use a table to represent it)
6. SWOT analysis
Identify and summarize your view of strengths, weaknesses and risks in the
business plan for the product (e.g. was it a good product choice, what
problems have emerged, do you still believe there is a good market
opportunity).
Comment on corrective actions you have taken, or are taking, to deal with the
problems that have emerged.
T.S.Peiris
Module Leader