Report

Event Summary Report

[Event Title]

Report By: [Author]

Course: [Course Name, CRN, Section]

Report Date: [Date]

Event Summary Report Template.Docx

[General Comments:

o Your report should stand on its own; delete ALL of MY blue comments in the square brackets [INCLUDING the brackets] and replace them with your own content.

o One important goal of this class is to help you to become more effective in communicating complex and abstract ideas to others (both technical and non-technical.)

General Suggestions:

o Write this summary as if to inform a colleague, manager or customer about something that you consider to be important, useful or helpful information.

o Provide maximum value to your stakeholders by providing relevant references (links, etc.)

]

Event Identification:

[In this section identify the event that you are writing about.  Provide:

· Title of the event

· Name(s) of the presenter(s) and/or organization(s) giving the presentation

· Date of the presentation (for a “live” presentation)

· Website link to the on-demand presentation OR the information/registration page for the event.

· If a link is available for the presentation slides, include that as well.

]

Event Topic Summary:

[Summarize the main points of the presentation.  What are the main ideas that the audience is supposed to take away from the presentation?  What important ideas do you want YOUR stakeholders watching the presentation to come away with?  (Why are you recommending that they watch the presentation?)

Note: DO NOT just copy/paste the summary description provided in the event announcement, registration page, presentation slides, etc.  While of course this information can be used to help you formulate your summary, compose your own original summary description.]

Relevance to Software Engineering Course:

[Summarize how the information in the presentation correlates with the Software Engineering class you are presently taking.  Is this presentation focusing in on more specific details of topics covered in class, putting together several different topics that were covered, expanding on topics covered, introducing new concepts not covered, addressing some tool, utility or technique related to topics in the class, etc.?  Address the similarities and/or differences with the concepts addressed in class.]

Practical Application:

[Suggest how you might apply (or how you recommend that your stakeholders apply) the information in current and/or future projects.

Some considerations:

· Is this applicable for an individual, team, organization, ALL of these?

· Would it be applied differently by individuals, teams and organizations?

· How can/will you and your team/organization use this to make your lives easier, improve the quality of your product, improve the efficiency of your process, etc.?]