fixed abstract

retrospective.tex

@@ -52,15 +52,17 @@
         }
         \begin{abstract}
             The Fenceless Grazing Collar system aims to reduce the amount of work
-            needed by farmers to keep herds of grazing animals. Throughout the
-	    Fall term, our team has conducted research into the specifics of our
-	    project which culminated in a complete design detailing exactly how
-	    the project will be implemented. Work was spread out over the ten weeks,
-	    with the ultimate goal of completing the required plan prior to 
-	    implementation. Throughout the term, our team completed progress reports
-	    in order to document our progress. This has been assembled into this
-	    one document, detailing our work throughout the Fall term.
-        \end{abstract}
+            needed by farmers to keep herds of grazing animals. During the fall
+	    term our team defined the problem that needs to be solved, drafted
+	    a document detailing the requirements of the project, and completed
+	    a design document and review with our client. Our client for this 
+	    project has approved our design, setting us on the path of 
+	    purchasing hardware. One of the largest issues we have encountered
+	    during the Fall term was a lack of funding, which will limit
+	    our ability to purchase hardware in the near future. Our team will
+	    solve this problem through constant communication with our TA and
+	    Dr. Winters.
+	\end{abstract}
     \end{singlespace}
 \end{titlepage}
 
@@ -70,7 +72,6 @@
 \pagebreak
 
 \section{Introduction}
-% TODO briefly recap the project purposes and goals
 This document describes the current state, problems, and future
 plans of the Fenceless Grazing Collars project. The FGC system's
 purpose is to reduce the amount of manual labor required for herding
@@ -82,7 +83,6 @@ provide a reliable, cost-effective, and accessible replacement
 for manual farmer labor.
 
 \section{Current Project State}
-% TODO describe where you are currently on the project
 At present, the initial design of the project is complete. The project's structure
 lends itself very well to division among the three group members, and all
 team members' responsibilities have been explicitly defined and agreed upon.
@@ -129,9 +129,6 @@ others, we will peruse the online documents, modules, and extra links provided t
 that we are not asking questions that have already been answered.
 
 \section{Weekly Progress}
-% TODO The document should include a detailed, week-by-week summary of activities,
-% problems, solutions, and the like (consider using your blogs to inform this report).
-% The report should not include more than a summary of any bigger documents you produced
 This section provides weekly summaries for every week of our Fall 2019 term for which the
 project was active.
 
@@ -249,10 +246,6 @@ responsibility for parts of each assignment.
 
 \pagebreak
 \section{Retrospective}
-% TODO add retrospective
-% positives column: anything good that happened
-% deltas column: changes that need to be implemented
-% actions column: specific actions that will be implemented in order to create the necessary changes
 \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
 \begin{parcolumns}[colwidths={1=0.3\textwidth}]{3}
 	\colchunk{ 
@@ -312,6 +305,14 @@ responsibility for parts of each assignment.
                 The team must change the means of distributing tasks. The method used in this term,
                 which was heavily based on individual initiative, led to an improper distribution of
                 work and time.
+
+                Although one of the requirements for the project is the usage of the LoRa long range
+                communication protocol, the team is not very familiar with the protocol's details.
+                This has not been an issue for the documentation stage; the design document could
+                be written with sufficient thoroughness. However, to proceed with the implementation
+                of the LoRa gateway (device responsible for communicating with the collars), as well
+                as the collars themselves, a more in-depth understanding of the LoRa protocol
+                is required.
 	 }
  	\colchunk{
  		\subsection{Actions}
@@ -330,6 +331,11 @@ responsibility for parts of each assignment.
                 to assign and manage tasks. This way, a specific person will be responsible for
                 assigning tasks, rather than relying on initiative like was done before. Assigning
                 team members to individual tasks will serve the same purpose.
+
+                To address the lack of understanding of the LoRa protocol, all members of the team will spend
+                the first week of the next term reading the LoRa documentation. Although only
+                two members of the team must work in-depth with LoRa, an understanding of the protocol
+                will be useful to every member.
  	}
 \end{parcolumns}
 \end{document}