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.

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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