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Fall 2007 > J04 9-21-07 > View Response #2

J04 9-21-07: View Response #2

Name	Hubert Lee
Milestone Status: Gains made (If possible, include hyperlinks to what you mention here.)	Split up into small temporary groups to investigate a high-level portion of the project - I was assigned to the content authoring group Brainstormed ideas for content authoring - our ideas can be found here Presented our findings at the Monday class meeting - minutes here Assigned the role of time tzar - now I need to make sure meetings stay on track Met with our customer to present our view of how the project will turn out - minutes here Assigned new small groups - I am now a part of the Advanced Research and the Data Management/Shared Services (back-end) groups - group assignments can be found here That document tells what groups exist but not who's in them. Do you have documentation of exactly who is in what group anywhere? -- SW Experimented with TFS (version control) and Microsoft SQL TABLETS HAVE ARRIVED! (possibly the biggest gain this week ;P) Excellent job on this section! --Chelsea I have to echo Chelsea here. Great detail!
Milestone Status: Obstacles Encountered	As part of the Advanced Research team, I feel like we ought to have some representation in the team leader meetings. Derek mentioned that he was not invited to the most recent meeting, despite him leading the Advanced Research team. I think in the future, it would be good to have our leader attend these meetings to see what needs we have and suggest technologies that might be available to address these needs (Good point. Make sure that you bring this up to the rest of the class in person. --Barnaby). Another obstacle may be determining what technologies we'll want to use and figuring out how to use them before it's too late.
Milestone Status: Proposed Solutions	The leader of the Advanced Research team should be included in team leader meetings. (This solves the easier of the two problems. Any ideas on how to fix the second, and arguably more important, problem?) How will you go about choosing technologies? Are people doing research? And when do you decide that it is "too late"?
Development Process: What seems to be working and why?	I think we made a lot of progress in our small groups. The material that came out on our presentation to the customer was a good overview of the ideas we came up with this past week. Our customer seemed happy with the direction that we are taking this project.
Development Process: What does not seem to be working and why?	Our customer mentioned that more of us could speak up during meetings. Also, I felt a little unprepared during the meeting as I didn't know what the presentation looked like or what exactly we would be presenting.
Development Process: Proposals for change--issues addressed and why the change will help.	I think we ought to have some kind of a briefing before a customer meeting just to go over what we will be discussing. I noticed that this week, we didn't prepare an agenda handout for our customer meeting. I think having an agenda is a good idea and it will help us stay on track during meetings (though we did a good job of it this last meeting). I did consider printing out the meeting agenda, but as it was only three lines I didn't feel it was worth it. The agenda was listed under the meeting event on the sharepoint homepage. We discussed the meeting agenda on Wednesday in class as well, though there were only a couple people who spoke up. The presentations were previewed at the leader meeting on Thursday, although that doesn't help anyone who wasn't there. Next time these things will hopefully be ready sooner, since we have a full week as opposed to only a few days. If it isn't a paper-worthy agenda, I can send it out as an email instead. -Matt How would you handle the customer's request for more diverse input? This is the more difficult problem, in my opinion. Does any/everyone know where to find the materials that are going to be presented in a meeting so that they can review them beforehand? -- SW
Peer review: Positive or negative feedback for other class members	Felipe's presentation was fast-paced and energetic, whereas Matt's was slower and more thoughtful. It's hard to say which style is better, but Felipe's presentation style appealed to me more. It really depends on personal preference. I liked Felipe's presentation a lot as well, though of course I like mine too. I was picking up some confused looks from Luke, which is why I reiterated a few points in a different way. A lot of it is just personal style though. I will probably ask Felipe to do more presentations at some point, although I would like to see others present as well.
Additional Comments	You have some good detail here, but try to focus more on solutions to the more difficult problems you have described. --Kristin