retrospective/retrospective.latex

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        \begin{abstract}
            The Fenceless Grazing Collar system aims to reduce the amount of work
            needed by farmers to keep herds of grazing animals. The project
            will be implemented using the LoRa wireless communication protocol to allow
            for long-range interaction between animal-worn collars and a gateway device.
            The gateway device will also provide an HTTP-based JSON API to apply configuration
            changes to collars through an application built for Android mobile devices.
            The MariaDB SQL database management system will be used to store the data
            received from the collar for viewing and analysis.
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\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
large numbers of livestock. The system does so by placing GPS-equipped
collars onto individual animals, and producing a negative stimulus
(either auditory or electrical) to discourage the animals from leaving
user-configured grazing areas. The goal of the project is to
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.
The team members all successfully researched the components of the project that
they are responsible for, and their research has been incorporated into a thorough
design document. 

Both the technical reviews produced by the individual team members and the
design document have been validated by the client, and there is consensus
between the team and the client regarding future plans.

With the initial design complete, the project is ready to move into the
implementation stage, with the exception of funding: once the department
provides the team with funding required to purchase the hardware components
specified in the design document, work can begin on implementing an initial
prototype.

\section{Problems}
% TODO describe any problems that have impeded our progress, with any solutions we have

\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 contains the summary of each week of the Fall term during which the
project was active.

\subsection{Week 3}
This was the first week during which we tracked progress. It consisted largely
of drafting, submitting, and merging
the requirements document and problem statements. This went smoothly; each team member
felt confident in their understanding of the project's requirements and the
problem it is solving, likely because our group was offered the project in
the summer before the class had started. The only foreseeable problems at
this point is the difficulty in scheduling a semi-regular meeting with the
client: each group member, and the client themselves, are exceptionally
busy during this academic term, and on most week, no single time works
for every person. This problem is not significant at this point, however,
because the team has enough information to work for the time being.

\emph{Note: At this point, some members of the team received lower scores
    than expected for certain submissions. Since the content of the various
    submissions was agreed upon by each team member, the variance in
    the received scores was unexpected and was listed as a "problem". However,
    this did not impact the project itself, since one of the submissions
    received full points.}


\subsection{Week 4}
This week consisted largely of revisions to the requirements document and
independent research. Team roles have been decided as early as this week:
each team member has a particular "strong suit", and will be playing
to their strengths in implementing this project. Since team roles have
been assigned, and since the team already has a vague understanding
of what components the project will consist of, members are eager to purchase
hardware and begin tinkering. However, a meeting has not yet been established
with the client at this point, and the matter of funding has not yet been
decided. It is not clear at this point who will be financing the hardware
required for the project.

\subsection{Week 5}
During this week, the source of funding was somewhat elucidated by a team
member's individual meeting with the client. The team was informed
that \$300 has been set aside for each Senior Capstone team to help with funding.
The team's TA was asked about this, but was not aware of the details, and
offered to contact Dr. Winters.

While there is not yet an exact date for a meeting with the client, one
is soon to be established. Each group member and the client provided the
times during which they are available, revealing that there were no
time slots during which each individual was available to meet. As such,
one of the group members will likely skip this meeting, and the rest
of the group members will fill them in. 

In preparation for the client meeting, team members have been doing further
research into their components of the project. This coincides well with the
first drafts of the technical review, which require exactly the type of
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.

\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

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