C01 — Design Brief & Project Management

The Hamilton and Alexandra College · Year 12 · 2026

The first SAT checkpoint covers your design brief, your project plan (Gantt chart in GitHub Projects), and how you keep that plan trustworthy through the year.

Foundations

• Essential Terms — the C01 glossary; click a term to expand its definition

Key concepts

Short explainers with diagrams and videos for the concepts you'll be quizzed on at validation:

• Problem-Solving Methodology — the four stages (Analysis, Design, Development, Evaluation) and their activities
• Testing vs Validation vs Evaluation — three similar-sounding terms that mean different things
• Critical Path — the longest chain of dependent tasks; how to find it and why it matters for C1-3
• TELOS Feasibility — Technical, Economic, Legal, Operational, Scheduling — the feasibility framework for your design brief
• Roadmap View vs Gantt Chart — what GitHub Projects renders, what it doesn't, and how to close the gap
• AI Disclosure — how to log AI use so your work stays authentic
• Mr Chen's SAT GitHub Projects — a video walk-through of the same kind of project board you're building, on a real complete example

Other C01 material

• Overflow

Resources

• C01 Resources — per-checkpoint reading and reference material

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