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Final Engineering Proposal: Slide Outline ​

We assemble your proposal together from your logbook, which already holds your W1–W7 outputs. Use this outline as the spine of your 8-minute presentation. Adapt freely. Keep it tight: 8 minutes is roughly 8 slides at one minute each.

Slide 1: Title ​

  • Project name. Optional one-line summary.
  • Your name. Build Fellowship Cohort [date].

Slide 2: The problem in one slide ​

  • Two sentences. What's wrong with the current state of OrbitTasks engineering?
  • One number that quantifies the pain. Example: "Pipeline takes ~13 minutes per PR, across 50 PRs/week, that's ~11 engineer-hours of waiting."

Slide 3: Current state, with data ​

  • Your Session 1 baseline numbers, presented visually.
  • Pipeline duration by stage.
  • Onboarding time.
  • Flaky test frequency.

Slide 4: Diagnosis ​

  • Top 2–3 root causes from your Session 2 work.
  • Use the 5 Whys results.

Slide 5: Proposed changes ​

  • What you did across Sessions 3, 4, and 5.
  • CI/CD improvements (caching, parallelization).
  • DevEx improvements (setup script, README, Makefile).
  • AI-assisted refactors.
  • Standards (the work from Session 7), and the enforcement mechanism you committed (pre-commit hook, lint rule, or PR template).

Slide 6: Measured impact ​

  • Your Session 6 before/after table, straight from your logbook.
  • Absolute numbers first, % second.
  • Highlight the most credible win.
  • Optional: OrbitTasks is deployed and working on Render. If you deployed it, demo it live and cite the real before/after numbers.

Slide 7: Risks and tradeoffs ​

  • One paragraph: what could go wrong with your changes?
  • One paragraph: what did your changes cost (time, complexity, maintenance)?

Slide 8: Recommendation and rollout ​

  • "If I had two more weeks, I would..."
  • The phased rollout plan from your Session 6 logbook entry.

Speaker notes ​

For each slide, write 3 bullets in the speaker notes:

  1. The single line you'll say.
  2. The number on the slide.
  3. The transition to the next slide.

If you can do all 8 slides in 6 minutes during practice, you'll do them in 7:30 live.

Format ​

  • Use the OAF template if you're presenting in PowerPoint. The workshop decks are good references.
  • One idea per slide.
  • No paragraphs of text on screen.

The one thing that wins ​

Land the specific impact in the audience's head. "We reduced CI by 65%" is forgettable. "We saved every engineer 27 minutes of waiting per week, which is more than a full sprint of capacity per year across our 28 engineers" is memorable.