Week One Day Two...

Tuesday 13th March:

9am Start

Today was the first day of our development of our features. It was a very productive day and we believe we achieved a lot mainly with the majority of week ones features nearly complete. My role for this week, along with James Tubb will be to make sure that all the features all completed and that we have something ready to present at the launch on Friday.

Supporting Role:

As part of the System Integration team, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays we are to provide support to the programmers. Today i was providing support to a number of people as well as the people allocated to me. I was helping Simon Collen and Luke Fribbens develop their feature. To be honest they did not have that much difficulty in creating their feature and they are well on task. However I was providing Simon with more help because his feature was slightly more difficult. As the day went on our system integration team met up to discuss our progress which was easier than meeting up in a room. Simon and Luke's feature were pretty much done by the afternoon so i helped other people if they needed it.

Systems Integration Meeting:

There were a number of topics discussed and a lot of things came up. It gave us an overview of where everyone is at with their features. In addition we agreed that as well as supporting, we will note down any changes and help complete their test plan they submitted earlier. Dan Ransom will be updating the current document as to the new requirements. Also Ashley Grimsey will be creating a new feature list and making sure everyone has a good enough feature to do. At the start of the day i suggested that we create a prototype of all the features that had been developed today except that we did not get time to do it. This will be done first thing tomorrow morning, but will be done at the end of the day after today. The prototype will show where all the features fit in and give us an overview of the system.
Once we have a final finished working prototype (Wed Night), we will then pass that on to the web design team who will include CSS etc to it. Then we will be setting up the PowerPoint presentation on Thursday and Friday for week one programmers to present.

The minutes for the meeting are below:

Systems Integrators Meeting Minutes

Date: 13 March 07
Time: 16:00
Where: P309

Absent: Rob Fowler

Minutes:

- Resolve issues with certain individuals that are still without a feature

- Ash Grimsey is now in charge of the features list co-ordination. He will create a list of features, and the completed features will be crossed off on completion so we know what’s been completed and what hasn’t. This will also show what features are currently without a programmer to help allocate features to the few individuals left without features. This is to be pinned on the notice board on the 3rd floor.

- Dan Ransom is in charge of the documentation and will amalgamate the programmers completed test plans at the end of the week.

- The entirety of week 1’s features should be gathered tomorrow morning, regardless of state. So get the programmers code (who you are specifically allocated too) tomorrow morning so we can combine all the features for a working prototype.

- Signing in sheet is now pinned on the notice board on floor 3! Don’t forget to sign!

- If a feature needs to be changed if there are problems integrating a feature for whatever reason, go back to the programmer of that feature and help them resolve the issue.

- We need to track what changes have been made to certain features, ensure programmers aren’t now taking on multiple features, we must be strict and limit this from happening. The creation of the original feature is most important.

- Once the features have been bridged we will hand the system over to the Web team so they can implement the CSS

- Systems Integrator meeting tomorrow morning in P230 at 9:00 am. Make sure you attend.



Documentation:

I met up with Dan Ransom after the system integration meeting to discuss a possible layout for the documentation. He will be taking over my existing role of putting the documentation together. It will have a number of sections which are to be completed weekly. The sections are split into weeks, which will include the original designs to the features including a completed test plan and states if any changes were made.

Overview of Today:

I think today was very productive. It seemed like at times that we were not doing a lot however this will be evident in terms of the prototype we will be producing tomorrow. I think we are working well with this system integration team which makes it easier for all of us. Communication will be a important factor as we have seen today.