5 DOT AGENDA

    
    I want to believe you are reading this either because you are an IT student and need to get the best out of your IT defense or you will one day go on IT or maybe you just have a sibling who is on IT and might need this info...Either of the choices am happy to share my mind with you on this..
But first I will like you to take a good look at the Diagram/Webbing above,study it carefully and make some observations on it.
Have you done that ?? I want to believe YES ..so lets continue.
As the Famous Saying goes "If you want to be an eagle,you learn the ways of an eagle",you become sucessful by doing things that sucessful people do.In the same vein,you want to get the Best out of your IT follow the paths of people who have done so..
This I have taken time to do,studying the reports of 2--3 "5 dotters" as I call them ..I observe they had so many  things in common even though they did their ITs at Different places,at different times and specialised on different things..really ?? Yes its for real.!!..
These "in-commons" are those things I want to share with you in this write-up..
The first in-common was that there reports were all divided into 4 parts..namely:

• The Introduction
• Experienced Gained in Company
• Contribution to the company
• Conclusion and Recommendations

And that was it!! 5.00!!
Now let me take it step by step ..
The Introduction: here you are meant to give a brief intro. of the SIWES program (that made you go to the company in the first place),the objectives and other info.
This is to be followed by Information  about
The Company; the history (if possible),the nature of work they do,the location and any other info that is applicable
Experience Gained : This is a full documentation of every relevant experience you gained in the company..You can break them down into subheadings where you can write in details the "nuts and bolts"..
Contribution to the Company : This is by far the most inportant part of your report,Every sane person (Including your lecturers) believes if somebody spends 6 good Months in a company you must have something to show for it.In both ways (To yourself and your Company)...What I am saying in essence is that your lecturers expect a tangible contribution from you to the company or organisation...
I dont want to be selfish on this but based on my own field I will explain the contributions based on an Information Technology related Intern..
As an I.T. (Info. Tech.) related IT student so of your contributions might include :
A software Created for the company,no matter how small just observe the company..Look out for an area that needs to be automated,do your analysis and get your hands to work..develop something relevant and tangible..tell somebody about it..show your Boss ..and who knows that might be your way to FORTUNE (If everything Clicks just like a friend of mine used to say.)
Ouch!!! Programming! Programming!! ...If you are not a software person like some of us,here is another suggestion
How about working with the Programming group in your Company (If there is one),help them out on a project they are working on and there you are..
You can also design and develop websites and web applications for yourself,your company or any other person...
I want to believe you are getting some new ideas now..
So How do you report it ??
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS PART
First you give a description of the application or project you work on ..then you go ahead to talk about the tools you used..for example if you worked  on a web application then your report will include all the tools you used PHP (if thats what you used),MySQL (for database),JavaScript etc.. You get it ??


And Finally your conclusion and Recommendations..This is solely up to you...
Conclude based on your IT experience and recommend things you think should be added or removed...
There is your 5 Dot Report..


Up Next is your Defense ...Am still doing some research on that..Hope to get across to you soonest..
I want to believe you this was able to help. ?? I will like to hear your views and comments..Dont forget to click the FOLLOW link too.(it will keep you informed on my blog posts).....
So go ahead and Cook up the best IT report ever .....
Thanks for taking your time to read this

....seunOgunmola