Engineering Methods

Academic Year 2025/26

  
 

Exercise 6

  
 

Work on preliminary version of project and review article

Use the exercise for consultations regarding preparation of presentation slides and preparation of preliminary version of project and review article. Follow the submission deadline.

Presentation preparation

Slides are a common part of technical presentations. In this exercise, you will try creating slides in LaTeX using the beamer package (part of standard LaTeX distributions).

Tasks for Jira

  1. In Jira, close (Complete Sprint) the sprint: Sprint_1_week_5. Move unfinished tasks to a new sprint named, for example, Sprint_2_week_6.
  2. Move to the newly created sprint from the backlog those tasks that relate exclusively to the Working version of the project (and are not part of the previous sprint), especially those related to the presentation. Decide on the complexity of each task. Do this by assigning corresponding Story points (Story point estimate). Then associate each task with a specific team member, ideally according to preference or "playing cards". Start the sprint: Sprint_2_week_6.
  3. Install GitHub integration support in Jira (tutorial).
  4. For each task in Sprint 8, create a link in Jira using the GitHub toolkit to individual commits in a separate branch.
  5. Then continue working on the project and review article.

Tasks in LaTeX

  1. Download and save the file prez.tex, which contains the source text of a presentation example in LaTeX. Compile the file to PDF format and compare it with the file prez.pdf (you may need to run the compilation twice for the presentation content and slide numbering to be generated correctly).
  2. Modify the example towards an initial version of your article presentation:
    • enter the title, author name, and date
    • enter several sections (even though you probably won't use them in your presentation due to its brevity)
    • create several slides with first and second level bullet points
    • create a slide with an image (including an image file)
  3. Compile the file to PDF format. Try changing the appearance (theme) and colors of the presentation with the \usetheme and \usecolortheme commands (in the preamble of the prez.tex file there are several themes and color schemes marked with comments).