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Fall 2007 > J12 11-16-07 > View Response #12

J12 11-16-07: View Response #12

Name	Sohum Misra
Milestone Status: Gains made (If possible, include hyperlinks to what you mention here.)	My milestone report can be found over here. It basically documents that my week wasn't that productive, although it does coincide with the same sort of week for everyone. Progress was made in search result viewing, a better organization of the frontend, and a few other nitty-gritty details here and there. There was unfortunately no fundamental change apart from basic search and advanced search working far better, from a frontend perspective.
Milestone Status: Obstacles Encountered	Other work was a major problem. In my team, Jeeyun had Comp 320 work (malloc) and I had SAS commitments (Dhamaka). Progress was slow and I didn't really encounter anything from a programming perspective that was difficult.
Milestone Status: Proposed Solutions	As above, the obstacles were large but unavoidable (I spent most of the last 3 days in the Grand Hall and I really expected that and hence could not really plan around it because the thing to go around was too huge).
Development Process: What seems to be working and why?	This week was a really bad week to comment. I talked to a few people and it seems Luke had a rough week. Apart from that, the UI team had a rough week (Jeeyun with Comp 320 and me with SAS). It seems a lot of other people also had a rough week (I couldn't make it to the customer meeting) and hence we really didn't develop enough to have problems with the development process.
Development Process: What does not seem to be working and why?	I think the above pretty much summarizes the situation. Most of everyone didn't have enough time to dedicate to Comp410 this week, and hence there was no real opportunity to encounter obstacles.
Development Process: Proposals for change--issues addressed and why the change will help.	See above. While a completely implausible and lofty goal of "working around the other stuff" can be suggested, I do not want to present it because after the last 3 days, I realized that I had ABSOLUTELY no free time to dedicate to Comp410. I totally disagree with your statement here--because "working around other stuff" doesn't mean cramming in five minutes every other hour. It means realizing that you won't have time and adjusting your milestones (and the customer's expectations) accordingly. Milestones should be reasonable for each particular week--if a 100% isn't possible, the problem is in milestone assignment (and it's not the PM's fault, in this case. Each person needs to proactively let Brad know when an expectation needs to be adjusted). --Chelsea No.... my definition of working around other stuff is not coding five minutes every other hour either. It means having a substantial block of time available to think through and develop---something I didn't have and didn't anticipate not having. I have essentially lived in the Grand Hall the last 4 days, and I certainly did not expect that to be the case, so I could not let anyone know before-hand. Fair enough. But just to note: you must have a typo above when you mention living in the Grand Hall--you say you had expected it. And what I'm saying here is that the solution to this problem doesn't involve your doing a lot of work; it's finding a suitable alternative to just that.
Peer review: Positive or negative feedback for other class members
Additional Comments	I completely had forgotten about this journal. Thank god my Firefox homepage has been set to my owlnet website, which in turn links to all my classes and I just happened to click on the Comp410 link which in turn activated something in my brain that reminded me to turn in my Comp410 journal, which was albeit pretty late. Apart from that, Jones' parties still suck. It just seems like most of it is spent walking up and down the floor hallways. Hey, the campos called our chief justice. We cannot be blamed! Late; -5 pts.