Earning Criteria

• Must be an employee of IBM. Participants must be approved to join the Practicum by the program administrators. IBMers may click here for more information.
• Architect the software solution for the Customer Use Case - Working with teammates, design the system architecture; i.e. software and operating environment, which provides a solution to the Customer Use Case by demonstrating the value of the solution.
• Follow documented architecture to implement software solution - Install and configure all the software needed to implement the architecture established during the solution design. Different team members will be responsible for different software used in the solution.
• Demonstrate the software solution - Each team member will demonstrate their part of the overall software solution. This will require a presentation of how their software supports the overall solution, and a hands-on demonstration of their software as used by the Customer.
• Document the solution for field use - After the previous criteria has been completed, both the as-designed and as-built documentation of the software solution are created for distribution to the field.
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