The principal component of the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) degree at Carnegie Mellon University is the completion of "Studio". Studio is a three semester long course in which teams collaborate, from start to finish, on a software project. This website contains the final analyses conducted by other teams of their respective, collective experiences with Studio; reflections upon their trials, successes and failures. Postmortems.

The MSE Studio experience is an intense test of the resolve, skill and time management abilities of all those involved. Heed the words of wisdom from those that came before...

Team postmortems can be browsed by year, alphabetically by topic or alphabetically by team name.

• HTML denotes a web version of the post mortem, with a functional, hot-linked, table of contents (T.O.C.).
• DOC denotes the original source document, typically in Microsoft Word (97+) format.

When browsing the HTML based postmortems, you can use this navigational element to quickly return to the Table of Contents by clicking upon TO TOP.

Clicking GO BACK will send you back to your most recent location. This is useful when exploring topics alphabetically.