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Fall 2007 > J04 9-21-07 > View Response #10

J04 9-21-07: View Response #10

Name	Derek Sessions
Milestone Status: Gains made (If possible, include hyperlinks to what you mention here.)	Currently, we have only just received our milestone, so we have only done planning. We are meeting Sunday (as the Content Team) to write up the necessary code. For the AR&D team, all the members are working pretty much on their own stuff. We don't have too much to do besides learning our current set of technologies (Silverlight, Javascript, JQuery,SQL) so I am allowing everyone to study independently for now, and I'll plan a meeting for the coming week. To note, within practical recursive limits, planning itself is a milestone-able event. -- SW Consider how you will check everyone's progress on "learning technologies". --Chelsea Since leaving everyone to their own devices and hoping the work will get done might not be the best idea...
Milestone Status: Obstacles Encountered	All though its not really an obstacle, the planning that has to go into this project is truly massive, but necessary. Otherwise, I just wish Silverlight was in 1.1 rather than 1.0, but there really isn't anything that I can do about that.
Milestone Status: Proposed Solutions	We just need to keep planning. A couple extra hours here will translate to days saved in the future if we mess up the planning. Work definitely needs to get underway in a more major way soon, which it is just starting to, so I cannot complain. Is it possible to overplan? What's the difference between effective planning and just yammering away at each other? What can you do to enable one and disable the other? -- SW
Development Process: What seems to be working and why?	Meetings, although though there are many, appear to be working well to get everything started. The presentation team did a great job at the customer meeting. Team leaders seem to being doing well.
Development Process: What does not seem to be working and why?	Right now inter-team communication has been a bit weak (specifics, please!), but that is pretty much already fixed. Just need to maintain it at this point. I think there is probably too much team redundancy, particularly between Content and Authoring, but this will sort itself out if need be. Who should be responsible for inter-team communication? More interestingly, how has this issue been "fixed"? It may come in handy to record this lesson for future reference. But do things really ever "sort themselves out"?
Development Process: Proposals for change--issues addressed and why the change will help.	For now, I think we just need to wait a bit. The main problems I can think of are team balance/redundancy, but this will only truly appear once we start working, and will be fixed then. A word of 410 journaling advice: you will rarely get credit for assuming a problem will fix itself.
Peer review: Positive or negative feedback for other class members
Additional Comments	Very vague...and please think through your solutions more than just blindly hoping that the problems just go away. Less than 12 hours late, -5pts. -- Kristin