Pentacharts
What is a Pentachart
Made famous by DARPA, Pentacharts are used to describe "in a glance" your project.
Pentacharts are made of 1 single powerpoint slide, a4 format (easily printable) and contain 5 (penta) charts concerning your project:
- Status quo: What is the state of the art and what are its limitations?
- New Insights: What are the key new insights?
- MAIN ACHIEVEMENT/ HOW IT WORKS /ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS
- Quantitative Impact: Characterize the quantitative impact as compared to start of the art technologies and/or microbial evolution.
- Proposed Concept Goals: What is potential capability of this technology
Download the Official BEAST Pentachart Template v4 (2014-02-09) HERE
Rules
Any changes to colors used should be changed within the Color Theme. Sub-group color choices right now:
- General Technical: Grey
- Jeff/OCT/Eye stuff: Blue
- Developmental Biology (later, but my suggestion): Green
- Others in Theme which should work: Orange, Purple, Yellow (not in Theme, but could be easily added)
(You can download the original DARPA Pentachart here.)
For the time being, only the BEAST subgroup is producing Pentacharts for TIC. We will update and upload new Pentacharts each month.
If you would like to make a Pentachart and have it here, please contact cutrale@usc.edu.
Motivation
- Teaches you the BIG picture
- Reminds you the importance of what you are doing
- Tool to keep rest of sub-group aware of your work
- Practice clear technical communication
- Update Scott on your progress (he gets a copy)
- Scott can use slides for funding purpose
Download Pentacharts packages