X01 Stage E · Capstone & OJT 80 h (10 T / 70 P)
Capstone Project
Owns and defends an end-to-end system built to a real constraint.
Prerequisite
Gate 4
Modules
6
NOS
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Statutory mapping
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Modules
6 modules · 80 hours
P1 · Scoping
10 h TOPICS
- Problem selection
- Stakeholder definition
- Success metrics
- Constraints: latency, cost, safety
- Risk register
Lab: Approved project charter and SRS
Course material for this module is in production.
P2 · Design
10 h TOPICS
- High-level and low-level design
- Data flows
- Interface contracts
- Evaluation plan defined before building
Lab: HLD, LLD and evaluation plan
Course material for this module is in production.
P3 · Build
30 h TOPICS
- Sprint delivery
- Version control
- Code review
- Continuous integration
Lab: Working system in a reviewed repository
Course material for this module is in production.
P4 · Evaluate
14 h TOPICS
- Execute the evaluation plan
- Quality, latency and cost measurement
- Error analysis
- Evidence-driven iteration
Lab: Evaluation report with baseline comparison
Course material for this module is in production.
P5 · Harden
10 h TOPICS
- Guardrails
- Security review
- Failure handling
- Observability
- Documentation and runbook
Lab: Hardened deployment and operations documentation
Course material for this module is in production.
P6 · Defend
6 h TOPICS
- Written report
- Demonstration
- Panel defence of design rationale and trade-offs
Lab: Report, demo and defence
Course material for this module is in production.
Assessment
100-mark rubric: framing 10 · design 15 · implementation 20 · evaluation rigour 20 · engineering & operations 15 · safety & governance 10 · communication & defence 10