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Fall 2007 > J04 9-21-07 > View Response #7

J04 9-21-07: View Response #7

Name	Corey Shaw
Milestone Status: Gains made (If possible, include hyperlinks to what you mention here.)	We don't have formalized milestones yet, but we have a goal for the team to have a working implementation that can create, search for (maybe), and display text content. Any documentation of these goals? Any notions of who is doing what? -- SW Something has to have happened this week, even if there weren't formal milestones. Other people have identified general progress that has been made...
Milestone Status: Obstacles Encountered	My team (Content view) doesn't really have much to do this weekend. This is partly because the backend needs to be in place before we can do much, (Absolutely the wrong attitude on the issue! You don't have time to be waiting around for someone else's functionality. -- SW) but even to have a functioning system all we need to do is get a block of text and write it directly to the page. I suppose it gives us some extended time to get acquainted with using TFS, and working together more closely.
Milestone Status: Proposed Solutions	There really isn't a problem, so naturally there's not a solution for it! Hopefully by next Tuesday we'll be in good enough shape to set some real milestones and start working with the video content. Quite the opposite. You have a HUGE problem here. Stub coding is the solution but you're missing something before that step. See Felipe's journal. -- SW Again, please read over the journal grading guidelines. "There is no problem so I can't solve it" is NEVER a correct answer.
Development Process: What seems to be working and why?	I think the team structure that Brad set up is good and seems to be working. (Does it seem to be working if one group is just sitting around waiting for work perceived to be solely the responsibility of another person?) I also think that my team has good dynamics and how I plan on leading and managing will work well with them. I also like the idea of the design/presentation teams that each have a member from one of the four architecture teams.
Development Process: What does not seem to be working and why?	Our two team leader meetings have been incredibly disorganized thus far. The fist one kept getting off topic, went far too long, and covered more detail than should've been covered in that meeting. The second took too long to get started and then we ran out of time to have all of the things covered that we needed.
Development Process: Proposals for change--issues addressed and why the change will help.	Brad seems to have a good idea on how to control the meetings with the customer and with the entire group, but he needs to make sure that the Team Leaders meetings are organized as well, and have agendas. This is beginning to sound like Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran the Circus" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Ran_the_Circus) with Brad playing the part of Mr. Sneelock. Let's get Brad to do it! Brad's life expectency is getting shorter by the hour. -- SW This seems to be something of a theme from the team leaders' journals. What are some possible underlying issues that would manifest themselves in disorganized leadership, and whose responsibility is it? --Chelsea Also, if we plan on continuing to meet at lunch we need to try and eat faster or do whatever it takes to squeeze as much out of our meeting time as possible.
Peer review: Positive or negative feedback for other class members	Derek has been great about researching technologies for us to use and educating us about the pros and cons of them. Jeeyun is also very helpful and contributive. I'm exciting about leading our team!
Additional Comments	We actually managed to get a lot farther this week than I thought we would - it was just last Friday that we were having a brainstorming meeting and had little idea where we were actually going to take the project. Hopefully by next Tuesday we'll have bypassed all of the hurdles in getting things setup so we can start doing the real coding. We can't afford to waste any time! Blind hope is not going to get you very far. Make sure you look at the problems more closely and see how they can be solved, rather than hoping they just go away. --KR