Senior Project Week 9

So, this week we worked on getting together the majority of our Software Engineering documents and metrics for the presentation this upcoming week. Along with this, I purchased a recorder to record our meeting with the clients for our adviser, who will be glad to go over the meeting.

Overall, the meeting this week went well, though was very strange. We were able to keep the meeting time boxed at 30 minutes, as planned on the agenda. However, this was only due to the fact that, our clients during this meeting, were extremely subdued and not as vocal as in most previous meetings. They were also, in some ways, encouraging us to not only lessen the scope of the system, but to also in short abandon it, favoring work on a single aspect of the project. This news came as a huge shock to us, which we were not prepared for and are still unsure with how to proceed on.

In short, the meeting shook us up a little bit, as it was very unexpected. Part of it is because I think our senior adviser may have talked to them, and they took it the wrong way. Something else that comes to mind is that they could be starting to "write us off", deciding that we might as well do something without any feedback, and not worry about it. The problem is, if we were to only deliver the small part of the project, they would probably never integrate it, and in short, it would go unused. Not only that, but the current heading and direction of the project would need to be completely revised, which itself causes more disruption.

Hence, this week has been fairly confusing. We have put together our basic presentation, but we really need more advice on how to proceed. This means we will, more than likely, seek more advice this week from our advisers.