System Int/Website Design/Design Issues

I have suggested the following for the plan for next week, Deadlines are yet to be finalised.

Yesterday seemed like a huge waste of time for most of us and a lot of lessons were learned so we need to decide either today or tomorrow on how to best use our time next week and set boundaries between us and the programmers.

From next week (Monday) I suggest the following:

All Programmers that week start on Monday

I have already allocated Systems Integration Members to groups of people for next week, these groups can stay the same. Each System Int Member is to have a copy of the whole system (Latest version created on Friday 15th March). As well as providing support, we will be making sure that any errors that come along with some ones feature, that the programmer alone try and fix with our help. It will be their responsibility to make sure that their feature fits in with the surrounding features and system. I have allocated the programming groups so that this can be possible, and there should be no reason why programmers should be working on their own and not in their allocated group. Once their feature has been done we then have to help them test.

We can have 3 stages of testing:

* initial stage - feature on its own

* 2nd stage - feature combined with copy of system and other features

* Final stage - features combined with latest version of system and interacts with all the surrounding features.

We have to make sure that when we test, we have the programmer there with us at all 3 testing stages. This is so that THEY can fix their errors on their own.

In addition to the support from Sys Int, I am going to propose at the managers meeting tomorrow that there some one from the design and website design team with the latest designs and logos etc. This is so that the group of features will be consistent and when we integrate it all together it should be easier.

Finally, Once all the features work and so on, the System Integrators will be merging all the features together, if all the above is done correctly, it should be easy and we shouldn't be making the same mistakes as yesterday

A copy of the system will be made to Sys Int on Monday which will need to be copied to the programmers H: drive, How ever depending on the size of the programming group allocation, I would suggest an alternative method there and then.

What does everyone think? We need to start working as soon as we can from Monday next week and Full Commitment is requirement from everyone, or this is not going to work