The centerpiece of the course is the project. You will be assigned to a team of four students whose objective is to work with a client to understand the client’s needs, define an acceptable solution, and then deliver a real, working system. The clients are different charitable or state/city government agencies who need your help to meet their mission of serving the community.
Kayla Wilson is our S-LTA and will oversee all client relationship matters.
Because there are intellectual property issues involved, we have retained Pallavi Gupta as general counsel for the class. She comes from Northeastern University’s IP CO-LAB in the Law School and is a degreed lawyer in India and the UK. She is an LLM candidate here at Northeastern. Pallavi is responsible for guiding the teams on any legal matters.
The CS TA’s, Ashish Kabhor and Harshali Singh, are responsible for technology oversight.
Every student is expected to treat the clients with respect and with a professional demeanor. This means keeping and being on time for all appointments, keeping accurate and sufficient d ocumentation of all communications, and keeping your commitments. Client happiness is an extremely important part of assessing project success. Happiness means satisfaction with the results AND the process by which the team conducted the project. Any misbehavior should be reported immediately to the professor or TAs. Title IX or criminal violations should be reported to the appropriate authorities immediately.