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Fall 2007 > J12 11-16-07 > View Response #4

J12 11-16-07: View Response #4

Name	Hubert Lee
Milestone Status: Gains made (If possible, include hyperlinks to what you mention here.)	Milestone report can be found here Aaron has signed off on the backend object structure that Dave and I came up with
Milestone Status: Obstacles Encountered	I was waiting on Brad, Aaron, or Matt to comment on the backend object structure before moving ahead and actually implementing it. None of them responded to my e-mail. Also, malloc consumed the vast majority of my time this week. It sounds like you were a bit passive on this one--when days pass and you have no response, remember that it's part of your milestone to get what you need. It looks like you still haven't heard back since you wrote your milestone report...being passive is giving permission to let your concerns slide. --Chelsea
Milestone Status: Proposed Solutions	Perhaps it wasn't clear that I was expecting a reply in my e-mail, next time I'll be sure to mention that I am looking for feedback. Also consider calling them and/or mentioning it to them during class time.
Development Process: What seems to be working and why?	Now that some groups have completed the majority of their features, we are reassigning people to other groups that are in need of more manpower.
Development Process: What does not seem to be working and why?	Our customer has been acting a little unexpectedly recently, with him going off and buying hosting that will not be able to support our site and postponing the public beta test. Copyright and IP issues have been ongoing throughout this entire semester, though we didn't expect it to affect the beta. Without the beta, we don't have an easy way to test the system under load and with lots of data, however this has given us time to test the security of the system.
Development Process: Proposals for change--issues addressed and why the change will help.	The best we can do for our customer is to inform him of the requirements of the system (something I guess we all assumed he knew) (Learn from this! Don't make undocumented assumptions.). Brad did go over hosting requirements at the last customer meeting, so I'm sure that helped clarify things a bit.
Peer review: Positive or negative feedback for other class members
Additional Comments	Not much happened this week as I was focusing more on finishing malloc. I'll try to make sure this doesn't happen for the web proxy. As I'm sure you've learned, you can't compartmentalize your time so one class doesn't affect another. The solution isn't to try to separate the two but to make sure 410 expectations are reasonable in light of your workload. This is a silver lining about 410--if you communicate ahead of time, you can pitch a reasonable deliverable to the customer.