Senior Project - Fall - Week 6

So, this week we presented our current project to our sponsor. After working diligently over the weekend and before the meeting, we were able to present a "feature complete" version of the project, which we were praised for. Personally, I am surprised we were able to pull it together so fast. It really is nice to see it working well.

For the next two weeks, we're working on testing and evaluating the system. This includes having the latter half of a class from our adviser. The students will test the application and find any bugs we may have missed in design and development thus far. Likewise, we'll be adding new levels of polish to the site, including better graphics, better updates and viewing mechanisms, etc.

Lastly, I will be adding to the admin interface, giving it a statistical viewing portion which will allow for the user to view statistics on events for the site. This feature has been in development for a while, as editing and dealing with the Django admin interface has been much more difficult than I have imagined.

During week 8, we will deliver and deploy the site to them on whatever server they wish. They can then link to it and move the site to wherever they wish.

Senior Project - Fall - Week 5

So, this week we are doing a mini-sprint to finish up the content and functionality of the project. At the end of this week we should be feature complete.

We had an extra meeting with our adviser this week. She picked up on the fact that momentum has nearly slowed to a halt and that integration has not be occurring as it should be. The reason for this, of course, is because we are delivering our product next week in a feature complete state.

Right now, the majority of the work left relies on the front end of the project displaying everything that is vital to the system. This includes people on projects, names, roles, skills needed for projects, the feeds on the project pages, entering new feed information, etc.

I am planning on making all the visibility changes needed to expose functionality and the like for the project. I am hoping to not have to pull a hero move this weekend. We'll see how this goes.

Senior Project - Fall - Week 4

So, for this week, we ended the first sprint on our project on Monday. From what I've fathered, every one of the use cases seems to be done (although, everyone checking in code would be nice). Aside, we have begun divvying up the next set of use cases, of which we'll be near finished within the next week or so.

To be honest and frank, it has been difficult to keep the team on track and keep up decent momentum. Everyone's return to a normal class schedule, on top of senioritis and it being the last quarter for most has made that near impossible. I include myself in that somewhat, as last week alone I spent nearly 30 hours on papers, presentations, and classwork for my game design courses.

So, we're slowly trudging along. Hopefully everything will be finished by week 6, leaving the rest of it to be toyed with and slightly expanded on for the rest of the quarter.