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+ | There was a high risk in approached, potential partners of Evynty rejecting to become our Beta Partner. In order to mitigate this, Xander who has previous sales and networking experience, is in charge of meeting Evynty's potential beta partners and the first point to the team. User Testing with beta partners was also done by Xander in order to maintain trust and keep the relationship between venue owners and Evynty strong. The risk was then reduced to low, even though some approached partners did not took up the offer. | ||
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− | The risk exposure | + | The risk exposure was medium high as the team plans to embark on the project using Python with Django frameworks, where most developers are not familiar with the programming language and thus poses a steep learning curve in the development works. <br /> |
However, the benefits that can be reaped from Django caused the team to stick with the language although being new. With the countless online tutorials available on the internet together with the determination of the team members, we try to reduces the risks incurred. | However, the benefits that can be reaped from Django caused the team to stick with the language although being new. With the countless online tutorials available on the internet together with the determination of the team members, we try to reduces the risks incurred. | ||
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− | The | + | The risk exposure was medium as working in a six member team creates huge differences in identifying time slots for meeting. Thus we have chosen to work fairly individually with each member having the responsibility to meet another if a task needs to be completed together. We have also put in place Wednesday and Sunday to be check in days where everyone updates each other through Daily Scrum and the Sprint backlog to understand the progress. Meeting will only be held when the need arises. Therefore, as these measures in place, schedule risk was be reduced to low. |
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− | + | The risk exposure was high in comparison to SE, the PM role for FYP requires much more dedication and planning; for changes especially. There was a need for Xander to learn and study the SCRUM methodology that would greatly assist him in managing how the team operates. Xander also had to understand all members off hand and learn through the project duration of each member's personality and where they could best contribute to the project. After these activities, the risk was reduced to low. | |
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| 7 || One of our team member's grandparent passed away during User Testing and Fixing Period, causing her to need take some time off the project. || The team member is asked to take time off, and given some tasks to try to do in the meantime. As one member is away during this critical period, the rest of the team takes on most of the responsibilities handled by the team member which he/she recover from his/her loss. | | 7 || One of our team member's grandparent passed away during User Testing and Fixing Period, causing her to need take some time off the project. || The team member is asked to take time off, and given some tasks to try to do in the meantime. As one member is away during this critical period, the rest of the team takes on most of the responsibilities handled by the team member which he/she recover from his/her loss. | ||
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+ | | 8 || Speaking to our supervisor after hearing from reviewers from our Mid Term presentation made us realize that our scope should be reduced as some of the features we aim to complete during FYP are not key to the project's success. || After multiple discussions during meetings, the team has decided to remove implementation of Facebook and Google+ extension from the project. Key remaining features to be completed by Final are Booking, Search, Messaging and https. | ||
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+ | | 9 || Acquiring venues into the system || After creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), the team proceeds in engaging in the most challenging yet achieving process of the project: Getting venue owners agree to be beta partners of Evynty during the initial stages of development, putting up their venues up in the system for venue seekers to search and book. Xander, the project manager with previous sales and networking experience, is the key player in engaging and getting venue owners and their venues into the system. Throughout the process, we have learnt how to engage clients, adapting Evynty into one that love. | ||
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+ | | 10 || Information was passed down from the IS480 faculty that the wiki is to be frozen by 28th November 2012. || Sprint 5 is affected as the initial duration was from 19 November 2012 to 2 December 2012. As a result, the team had to finish everything earlier, by 27th November in order to perform User Testing on 27 and 28 November. After Testing, the team would work on the findings if needed, by 28 November in order to complete the wiki on the day. The whole process is done during the exam period, and the team had to push through to get it done. | ||
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+ | As a startup, our project aims to leverage on all open source softwares in order to avoid sunk cost as well as to provide an opportunity to increase our competencies with open source technologies. | ||
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+ | The project will be developed using Python on Django framework which is not familiar by the team. However, using Python on Django will enable us to ride on the functionality of the framework to develop a custom application suitable for our needs. Albeit a steep learning curve, learning Python on Django gives us more exposure to the many programming, and it provides additional functionality not available with other languages. | ||
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+ | Using the framework in tandem with our chosen database system, PostgreSQL, may pose as an obstacle as we are new to this powerful, open-source database. Although there exists documentation and tutorials to integrate PostgreSQL with Django, difficulty still lies in ensuring all the configurations of the different apps to get the best out of Django. | ||
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+ | Using Git for subversioning may be another obstacle for us as we only have experience with Tortoise SVN and we have not configured it for an actual project use. The use of Git as SVN is of paramount importance as is helps to keep track of changes to the project files, and also allowing us to retrieve previous file versions if needed. | ||
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+ | Ubuntu 11.04 will be used as the server for our web application as it is free and robust. The likely difficulty would be the initial stage of setting up the server and getting used to Linux operating system. | ||
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+ | Despite the learning curves to grasp all the different technologies, we believe our technical competencies will be greatly improved by the end of this project. | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:49, 3 December 2012
Progress |
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Timeline
Below describes a high level project schedule of Evynty. Individual features that will be developed in each Sprint will only be decided and broken down during each Sprint's Planning. The number of features being developed is determined by factors such as:
Sprint Features Development & Breakdown
The following table describes in detail what feature of Evynty is planned to be completed in each Sprint, and what is actually completed by the end of the Sprints.
List of features that will be developed in each Srpint will only be updated after Sprint Planning, which will occur at the start of each Sprint. Note the complexity of feature development affects the total number of features being developed in each Sprint.
Sprint | Features planned to be worked on | Features that were worked on | Work Assignment Breakdown |
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0 | Not Available | ||
1 | View | ||
2 | View | ||
3 | View | ||
4 | View | ||
5 | View |
Performance Management
Purpose | Tool | Description |
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Feature Tracking |
Feature Backlog: | |
Feature Selection |
Product Feature Scoring Metric: | |
Sprint Schedule |
Sprint Backlog: | |
Sprint Performance |
Sprint Velocity Chart: | |
Sprint Performance |
Daily Scrum: | |
Sprint Performance |
Click here to view sample of weekly update |
Bi-Weekly Evynty Progress: |
Bugs Tracking |
Bug Metrics: | |
Project Performance |
Project Velocity Chart: | |
Project Success |
Project Success Calculator: |
Risk Management
Below states some of the risks that were planned for with contingency plans. Please refer to Project Highlights for an in depth understanding of what happened.
Realized Risks:
Failing to get Beta Partners for FYP
There was a high risk in approached, potential partners of Evynty rejecting to become our Beta Partner. In order to mitigate this, Xander who has previous sales and networking experience, is in charge of meeting Evynty's potential beta partners and the first point to the team. User Testing with beta partners was also done by Xander in order to maintain trust and keep the relationship between venue owners and Evynty strong. The risk was then reduced to low, even though some approached partners did not took up the offer.
Technical and Learning Risks
The risk exposure was medium high as the team plans to embark on the project using Python with Django frameworks, where most developers are not familiar with the programming language and thus poses a steep learning curve in the development works.
However, the benefits that can be reaped from Django caused the team to stick with the language although being new. With the countless online tutorials available on the internet together with the determination of the team members, we try to reduces the risks incurred.
Member being away
There was a low risk that a member might be away during the project. This might have caused massive delays in the project, especially when it happens at the back end. To mitigate this, team members step in to cover the responsibilities of the away member. Tasks will also be assigned to the member with deadlines attached and close monitor by the project manager.
Schedule
The risk exposure was medium as working in a six member team creates huge differences in identifying time slots for meeting. Thus we have chosen to work fairly individually with each member having the responsibility to meet another if a task needs to be completed together. We have also put in place Wednesday and Sunday to be check in days where everyone updates each other through Daily Scrum and the Sprint backlog to understand the progress. Meeting will only be held when the need arises. Therefore, as these measures in place, schedule risk was be reduced to low.
Project Management Risks
The risk exposure was high in comparison to SE, the PM role for FYP requires much more dedication and planning; for changes especially. There was a need for Xander to learn and study the SCRUM methodology that would greatly assist him in managing how the team operates. Xander also had to understand all members off hand and learn through the project duration of each member's personality and where they could best contribute to the project. After these activities, the risk was reduced to low.
Project Highlights
The following table highlights the special events that happened during the phase of the project.
SN | Incident | Action Taken |
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1 | One of our group members, Xueting was overseas during Sprint 1. This would potentially cause her to deliver her tasks with a delay, posing a danger to the team's progress | Allocated her work tagged with deadlines through email with constant communication through email and whatsapp group. Once she came back, she was new to SCRUM compared to the rest of the team. Dependencies and bottlenecks are critical events that could affect the progress of the team. Project Manager met up with her to run her through the process of work that is being implemented, to prevent her from causing any bottleneck and to have her contribute in the best way possible |
2 | There was a communication gap between front end and back end. This was not suppose to happen if Daily Scrum was done everyday. However, because of school work, Daily Scrum was held every Wednesday and Sunday in Evynty, calling it the "Check-in-days". As back-end and front-end development are done separately, there may be time when work is being done by the back-end would affect front-end development or processes, vice-versa. | A meeting was held and it was decided that changes to development that might affect the other party would be documented in Evynty Dropbox. Thus whenever an error is encountered, team members just have to visit the dropbox to identify what were the changes and make the necessary adjustments. This would allow development to be smoother and not run into stoppages whenever something goes wrong. |
3 | Front end team faces a difficulty when designing and developing the individual pages in Evynty. The flow of user events is missing to allow the front end team to develop the pages with a next step in mind. | The front end team sat down to identify what is actually missing that could prevent this from happening. And we decided that a "storyboard" should be created to prevent future instances from happening. This storyboard will document down for each page, what are the features and next steps that users can access, and when they access another feature, how will the user experience it. Example: pop-ups, new page, color change, etc. |
4 | Team faces problem with postgresql and initial setup constantly as they are still fairly new to git, python and django environments. This causes some problems, especially for the front end team, as there is a constant need to push to the server to make sure things are able to integrate properly. | Nikunj, one of our team members who has experience with the environment was asked to give a "setup 101" to prevent similar things from happening in the future. |
5 | There was slow progression of GUI Designs to allow the front end developers to code out the pages. This slowed down the progress. | The front end team sat down and designed a workflow where things can be more efficient. Xueting will now create the wireframes and pass them to the front end team to code out the frames. While front end is doing that, Xueting then builds on her wireframes and work on the exact GUI specifications. After which, they will be passed to the front end to implement and hopefully create good webpages. |
6 | There was a severe overlooked by the project manager and the team, that user testing needed to be done for the mid term. The initial plan was to do user testing only after mid term, with the consent and approval from our supervisor. However, after revisiting the requirements stated on the IS480 website, the project manager realized the mistake. Thus the scope for Sprint 2 had to be changed. | The team got together to reassess the scope of Sprint 2, with the need to complete by Wednesday 26 September 2012. This forces the team to re-prioritize tasks to focus on completion and delivery, features such as design of pages and schedule management were affected. |
7 | One of our team member's grandparent passed away during User Testing and Fixing Period, causing her to need take some time off the project. | The team member is asked to take time off, and given some tasks to try to do in the meantime. As one member is away during this critical period, the rest of the team takes on most of the responsibilities handled by the team member which he/she recover from his/her loss. |
8 | Speaking to our supervisor after hearing from reviewers from our Mid Term presentation made us realize that our scope should be reduced as some of the features we aim to complete during FYP are not key to the project's success. | After multiple discussions during meetings, the team has decided to remove implementation of Facebook and Google+ extension from the project. Key remaining features to be completed by Final are Booking, Search, Messaging and https. |
9 | Acquiring venues into the system | After creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), the team proceeds in engaging in the most challenging yet achieving process of the project: Getting venue owners agree to be beta partners of Evynty during the initial stages of development, putting up their venues up in the system for venue seekers to search and book. Xander, the project manager with previous sales and networking experience, is the key player in engaging and getting venue owners and their venues into the system. Throughout the process, we have learnt how to engage clients, adapting Evynty into one that love. |
10 | Information was passed down from the IS480 faculty that the wiki is to be frozen by 28th November 2012. | Sprint 5 is affected as the initial duration was from 19 November 2012 to 2 December 2012. As a result, the team had to finish everything earlier, by 27th November in order to perform User Testing on 27 and 28 November. After Testing, the team would work on the findings if needed, by 28 November in order to complete the wiki on the day. The whole process is done during the exam period, and the team had to push through to get it done. |
Complexity & Learning Tools
As a startup, our project aims to leverage on all open source softwares in order to avoid sunk cost as well as to provide an opportunity to increase our competencies with open source technologies.
The project will be developed using Python on Django framework which is not familiar by the team. However, using Python on Django will enable us to ride on the functionality of the framework to develop a custom application suitable for our needs. Albeit a steep learning curve, learning Python on Django gives us more exposure to the many programming, and it provides additional functionality not available with other languages.
Using the framework in tandem with our chosen database system, PostgreSQL, may pose as an obstacle as we are new to this powerful, open-source database. Although there exists documentation and tutorials to integrate PostgreSQL with Django, difficulty still lies in ensuring all the configurations of the different apps to get the best out of Django.
Using Git for subversioning may be another obstacle for us as we only have experience with Tortoise SVN and we have not configured it for an actual project use. The use of Git as SVN is of paramount importance as is helps to keep track of changes to the project files, and also allowing us to retrieve previous file versions if needed.
Ubuntu 11.04 will be used as the server for our web application as it is free and robust. The likely difficulty would be the initial stage of setting up the server and getting used to Linux operating system.
Despite the learning curves to grasp all the different technologies, we believe our technical competencies will be greatly improved by the end of this project.
Meeting Minutes
Evynty Progress Weekly Updates
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4 | Week 1, Wednesday | Download |
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5 | Week 1, Wednesday | Download |
5 | Week 1, Sunday | Download |
5 | Week 2, Wednesday | Download |