Idea stage
The following judging criteria will be applied to the ideas:
- Concept
- Is it creative, novel and innovative?
- Has the relevance of the pain points been addressed?
- Does it have a proposed architecture or system design?
- Impact
- Does it have the potential for practical usability?
- What is its viability at a global scale?
- What is its relavance to the masses?
- Scalability
- Does it encompass ease of implementation?
- Is it easy to understand with an elaborate design?
- Have all the associated assumptions and constraints been addressed?
Quarter finale: Prototype stage
Prototypes will be judged, based on the following non-technical criteria.
- Adaptability
- What is the ease of solution adaptability like?
- How well does the solution solve the theme?
- Agility
- Is the solution agile enough to accommodate further enhancements?
- Is the solution flexible to support global standardization?
- Sustainability
- Is the solution proposing a sound business model?
- Will the solution be able to sustain in the long-term?
- Value impact
- Is the solution creating a value impact and disruption in the industry?
- What financial value and impact is the solution creating?
- Presentation and Q&A
- How well was the solution articulated? Were the questions answered correctly?
- How well was the presentation time-limit managed?
Prototypes will be judged, based on the following technical criteria.
- Code
- What is the quality and level of code?
- How well have the coding standards been followed?
- Is the usage of algorithms, APIs, logic, frameworks and external libraries in code appropriate enough?
- Design
- Does it include an optimal design, user experience and use of latest technologies?
- Is the solution scalable enough to support high volumes of data?
- What is the feasibility of the solution’s portability into an Azure environment?
- Has the maturity of open-source technologies or frameworks been used?
- Overall usability
- What percentage of the desired functionalities have been covered?
- Is the output of the solution, relevant to the problem described?
- Does it bring in any additional return on investment (ROI) in terms of reporting dashboards, additional savings and other such features?
- Prototype build
- Has the minimum viable product for implementation been created?
- Have relevant metrics and coding practices been taken into consideration?
Evaluation criteria for semi-finale and grand finale phases will be updated soon.
Idea submission guidelines
Please follow these fields mandatorily during submission:
- Provide a detailed description of the solution.
- Update the idea submission template. Click here to download the template.
Quarter-finale: Prototype submission guidelines
Please follow these fields mandatorily during submission:
- Provide a detailed description of the solution.
- Update the prototype submission template. Click here to download the template.
- Provide a demo link or share the link of your working project.
- Provide source code.
- Provide the instructions to run the same.
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