diff --git a/retrospective.latex b/retrospective.latex index 078c7af..33d8201 100644 --- a/retrospective.latex +++ b/retrospective.latex @@ -188,7 +188,59 @@ research that the team will present to the client in the meeting. \subsection{Week 6} The highlight of this week was the first meeting with the client. This meeting was scheduled last-minute, but went very well. The team's plan and the client's -expectations were not significantly different. +expectations were not significantly different. To accomodate the team and +the client's busy schedule, meetings were agreed to be bi-weekly, and made +optional (to prevent wasted time in the event that no new information is +required by the group). During this week, team members wanted to begin +prototyping to accelerate the development and revision of an initial +design. However, the issue of funding remained at this point; a team member noted +"any kind of funding is a long way away" in their individual progress report. +In retrospect, this was not a significant challenge at this time: many changes +were made to the original design during the drafting of the Design Document, +meaning that some purchased hardware might not have been used. + +\subsection{Week 7} +During this week, the team completed an initial draft of the Design Document. +This was not written in IEEE 1016-2009 compliant format, and generally +consisted largely of information from the Tech Review. The team was aware +of this, and planned to modify the document to be compliant to IEEE 1016-2009 +in the second draft. The first draft was submitted on time and with no other issues. + +Since the team was busy with the creation of the design (and the design document), +the issue of funding was not significant at this time. The group member responsible +for the hardware simulated some of the components of the initial design, in order +to explore the implementation of the project. However, no significant insight +was gained from this, with the exception of familiarity with the tooling. + +\subsection{Week 8} +In this week, the design document was completely transitioned to IEEE 1016-2009 format. +This took a significant amount of work for three reasons: the IEEE spec is very wordy +and needlessly abstracted, the specified perspectives in the IEEE spec were not +entirely covered by the first draft, and a medical emergency temporarily took out a team member. +Despite the difficulties, the assignment was completed before the initial deadline (which +was later postponed), and the team had a chance to verify the content of the design document +with the course's instructors. This helped discover several minor issues with the format +of the document, which were promptly corrected. At this point, the document was +complete with the exception of UML diagrams, which were scheduled to be inserted +during the weekened. +Other than the medical emergency and the design document, no significant problems +or progress occured this week. + +\subsection{Week 9} +This was a short week which ended in Thanksgiving, and no significant changes +to the state of the project occured at this time. The team submitted all the +generated documentation to the client / advisor, but did not receive a +response during this week. No issues were encountered during this time. + +\subsection{Week 10} +The entire team, as well as the client, had a chance to meet and discuss +the submitted documents this week. The client was very satisfied with the results, +but wanted a high-level overview of the system that was not "scattered through +a big document". +On the team level, a new system was introduced to help evenly distribute workload +among team members. A Trello-style board will be used to plan for the tasks +ahead and assign work to members, so that there is a larger degree of personal +responsibility for parts of each assignment. \section{Retrospective} % TODO add retrospective