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Fall 2007 > J12 11-16-07 > View Response #11

J12 11-16-07: View Response #11

Name	Kevin Le
Milestone Status: Gains made (If possible, include hyperlinks to what you mention here.)	Milestone Report Sat down with Corey to discuss Authority as a relationship type, as he set up the methods in the Entity class
Milestone Status: Obstacles Encountered	Other classes really ate my lunch this week. Between two tests, malloc, and problem sets, I was lucky if I got to sleep in my own bed after each day. It came down to Corey calling me a few times the day my milestone was due, trying to wedge a 15 minute slot into my endless parade of malloc trace testing, that I finally took a moment for to talk with Corey Corey hadn't assigned me tasks for the week (he seemed to be swamped with work as well), which is not to say that I would have had the time to devote for it, but still, not knowing specifically what I needed to do made me feel like getting to the work of my other classes was more important. Having specific assigned tasks in weeks of the most work from other classes is really important. Even if it is just a small goal, it still gives you something to work towards and complete, which is better than doing nothing at all.
Milestone Status: Proposed Solutions	If I have one regret in taking this class, it would be taking this class with a 20 hour load. (Ack! Death!) I feel as though I could've done so much more, and put more personal effort into making the project something great had I just had more time. Regardless, I hope to make up for this week's fiasco by putting extra effort in the next two week stretch with the beta coming up. I think I should be trying to assign myself milestones rather than have the team leader do it. Knowing what the team's tasks are for the week, I can sit down with Corey and talk out a few concrete things I should do to help the team meet that goal. Corey has a more team-oriented goal-seeking in mind, but I feel more comfortable with being able to say that certain specific things are my responsibility. This is a totally legitimate concern, and I hope you do follow through on communicating this with your team lead. It's a great sign that you've come up with a solution for yourself here. --Chelsea
Development Process: What seems to be working and why?	Our project appears to be moving into beta testing soon, with more people being shifted to do UI work. It is too soon to say how smoothly the transition in the project's phase will go, but for the moment, we have not run into major snags, besides the customer go-ahead signal and waiting for copyright issues to settle.
Development Process: What does not seem to be working and why?	It was recognized weeks ago that bringing the project into the beta phase would require a shift in resources, where testing and UI design to implement all the backend features will be needed. Just how many people can be diverted is a big issue when we have such a small team, but seeing as there is very little time left, it makes sense to slow development of features to make sure our current ones are bug free and fully functional.
Development Process: Proposals for change--issues addressed and why the change will help.	Today we moved another person into the UI team to alleviate their loads, which brings the total count of the UI team to 3. Whether or not this is adequate remains to be seen over the next few days. What really seems undersupported at he moment is testing, to which only one person is dedicated. While we do testing on the features ourselves, this is typically more minimal than it should be and reveals problems (that moment in the customer demo a while back when Jeeyun said "we only tested the search fields with authors..." when the search engine wasn't behaving). More persons should be assigned to try and break code to lessen the chances of our beta test going awry.
Peer review: Positive or negative feedback for other class members	Corey: Thanks for pushing me to do 410 on wednesday, I would've been totally lost had you not pressured me to spend 15 minutes catching up.
Additional Comments	Good journal. Late; -5pts.