AAE500 RUBRICS (Expectations)
Planning Task Drafts (HMWKS)
WIKI: rubric; heuristic; annotated bibliography; executive summary.
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On the one hand, these Planning Task Worksheets are relatively simple to fill in the blanks.
At this level, these tasks should not take too much time/effort (“bandwidth”). Obviously,
this is NOT the intent of this applied business management “exercise”.
On the other hand, given the “simplicity” of these tasks, we have assigned multiple
(required and optional) readings and several Pivot Group discussion topics as part of a “data
generation  information/analytics  “value added” decision process. Clearly, the effort
required for these tasks is a function of your class and Pivot Group Learning and experience,
and the daily/weekly/semester flow of your work/life balance (opportunity costs).
The intent of the Planning Task exercise (“HMWKs”) is to summarize your current
AAE500 readings/lecture/group learnings and integrate your key intuitions,
insights, and implications into the Planning Task experience – from your
perspective, as in “make it real” for you….
SUGGESTIONS:
1) Provide a brief Executive Summary (annotated bibliography) for 3-5 Class (required or
optional) readings that provide motivation and/or context for your current Planning Task
draft (HMWK). (30%)
2) Integrate 1) into your HMWK – make it explicit, so it’s easy to see where and how you do so.
(20%)
3) Other: (50%)
 Use word processing software (of your choice).
o Convert pdf worksheets into a word processing software format using ADOBE
Acrobat. Most Camus labs will have this – it is also available cheap (or free)
via DoIT.
o I suggest the Pivot Group Leaders assign this PDF to DOCx conversion task
to Group members for each of 6 HMWKs.
 Your (hardcopy!!!) draft should follow the pdf worksheet outline—make it easy to
identify the key elements from the pdf worksheet.
 Use a 12 point font with 1” margins (top, bottom, left right). Be sure to add page
numbers!!!
Remember: These HMWKS are draft sections of your FINAL REPORT!!!
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Pivot Group Leader Reports
There are two key “deliverables” for each Pivot Group Leader:
1) A pdf of your Pivot Group Executive Summaries of the assigned Readings.
2) A pdf of your Pivot Leader Presentation.
Pivot Group Executive Summaries:
We are using the Pivot Groups to gain applied experience with the McKinsey’ Lean
Management Enterprise and “humanistic” MHR (Changing IT Culture). We hope explore and
experience “new ways of working” by sharing substantive weekly information processing tasks
(the assigned readings, HMWKs, and related Final Project Tasks (Theme, Outline, HMWKs,
Draft, Final Draft). A key part of this Pivot Group experience is to distill the weekly readings,
HMWK, and Final Project tasks into a “practical, problem solving” set of deliverables that
constitute your Capstone experience and provide the basis for your Final Grade.
 Each Pivot Leader should assign the 9 sets of reading “themes” across Pivot Group
members with the task of providing Executive Summaries of the assigned readings via
Google docs (or other collaboration tool of your choice).
 These Executive Summaries are intended to be sufficiently detailed so as to provide a
functional, value added understanding of these readings as relates to development of
your Final Projects.
o Hence, Group members may choose to skip these readings and “lean” on Group
members to cover these materials for them.
 As there is substantive “overlap” in the readings (to provide multiple perspectives and
applications of Key Themes), Pivot Group discussions of these Executive Summaries
should identify and rank Key Readings.
o Perhaps a Green (Must Read!!!), Yellow (Should Read), and Red (can skip if
“bandwidth constrained”) or similar (A-F, 1-10) ranking will be helpful.
 Your Group objective is to have a well-integrated, “cross-trained” Group
understanding of the Reading Themes as relates to your Final Project
deliverables.
EACH Pivot Group Leader should EMAIL me a pdf with a collation of these
individual Group member Executive Summaries shortly after the next Pivot
Group Leader is assigned.
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Pivot Leader Presentations
THEMES: Each Pivot Group Leader is assigned a set of the weekly Readings (Theme). The
intent of these Pivot Group Leader Presentations is opportunity for professional business
communication and public presentation;
 AND, shared Pivot Group learning!!!
We encourage that you create a culture of “freedom and creativity” with respect to practical
problem solving, in this case via your Pivot Group Experience (learning!!!) focused on your Final
Project Deliverables (HMWKs, Theme, Outline, Draft, Final Draft).
FORMATS: A 5-7 page, 10-15 minute PowerPoint/Google presentation providing an Executive
Summary of your assigned Pivot Group Leader reading(s). This is your Pivot Group Leader “work
product”, your “draft” AAE500 professional presentation exercise, with little/no downside risk.
 There is considerable overlap in Final Project related themes in the weekly assigned
readings. The intent is to provide multiple perspectives on these key themes as relating
to your Final Project Tasks (HMWKs, Theme, Outline, Draft, and Final Draft).
 In the last 1-2 of the 5-7 pages, integrate key points from the other weekly readings,
ideally using the Google doc Executive Summaries prepared by your Pivot Group.
o One of the tasks of your Pivot Groups is to consolidate these themes/topics from
the extensive readings into a succinct Executive Summary. This Final Project
Tasks oriented Executive Summary should provide background for this
objective.
o Additionally, I request that each Pivot Group Leader share some thoughts
(insights, options, learning) on your group’s challenges/solutions (i.e., practical
problem solving experience).
Pivot Leader Presentation PDFs: these will be collated and distributed to the Pivot Groups
for evaluation of each Pivot Leader Presentation, by each Group. Each Pivot Group (and me)
will provide an A-F grade for each Pivot Group Leader Presentation as well as a top 3 ranking.
Your Pivot Leader Presentation should include:
 Group/Leader Number, Group Leader Name
 Pivot Theme, Pivot Critter, Pivot Motto/Slogan
 Title your Presentation PDFs using the following format:
o AAE500 Pivot-Group PPTx.
o Examples:
 Pivot 1, Group 8 would be AAE500 1-8 PPTx.pdf
 Pivot 6, Group 3 would be AAE500 6-3 PPTx.pdf
 I will EMAIL a Pivot Group Summary form for each Pivot.
 Each Pivot Group Leader should return this form to me via EMAIL.
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