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Throughout the entire FYP journey, we have a fair share of ups and downs. Each of us has our own capabilities and opinions that, often than not, lead us to disagreements. Fortunately, we were able to calm down and resolve the entire issues as a team by engaging in open discussion. Thus, every individual is encouraged to voice out his/her opinions so as to minimize conflicts and misunderstandings among the team. This greatly helps us better in the allocation of works and reduces unnecessary stress by utilising each individual’s strength.
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In short, we had learnt that ‘it’s not the destination that’s important, it’s the journey’ that make us understand each other better and bond us together. 
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Having known that we have to use a new framework – Play! at the initial stage of our project was a ‘nightmare’ for all of us. As we had never heard or know how it works upon accepting this project. However, after much research online and hand-on session, we began to understand the logics behind the algorithm and started to build our system from scratch.  Thus, we are now more confident in using the new framework and technical risk for our project has become relatively low along the process.
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In addition, we had also learnt how to better design the architecture of our database and user interface to meet the needs of our clients for future expansion and scalability.
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As a team, we would provide creative ideas for our clients so as to constantly improve our current features. However, we have also learnt to manage both our client and supervisor’s expectations by prioritizing the importance and changes to the scope of our project. Therefore, the learning point as a team would be to consistently adapt our expectation to the additional or changes of our project scope.
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FYP has indeed been a challenging yet rewarding journey for me.
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I have learnt that what’s important in a team is not just the expertise of each individual but, the continuous support from each other that kept us going! Along the way, we faced both technical and project management obstacles yet it’s through all these that bonded us and taught us to better express ourselves to one another. Hence, effective communication is one of the important takeaways a skill I have honed.
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Last but not least, I am thankful that we survived and walked through the whole journey together as a team. I am certain that every single one of us have somehow developed some interpersonal and technical skills along the way which will greatly help us in the future.
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And, I believe our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
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Revision as of 12:56, 28 November 2012

HomeOHW.png Final Wiki

Project Progress

Project Management

Project Quality

Usability Study

Reflection

Slides and Poster

Reflection

Team Reflection

Teamwork and communication

Throughout the entire FYP journey, we have a fair share of ups and downs. Each of us has our own capabilities and opinions that, often than not, lead us to disagreements. Fortunately, we were able to calm down and resolve the entire issues as a team by engaging in open discussion. Thus, every individual is encouraged to voice out his/her opinions so as to minimize conflicts and misunderstandings among the team. This greatly helps us better in the allocation of works and reduces unnecessary stress by utilising each individual’s strength. In short, we had learnt that ‘it’s not the destination that’s important, it’s the journey’ that make us understand each other better and bond us together.


Technical Skills

Having known that we have to use a new framework – Play! at the initial stage of our project was a ‘nightmare’ for all of us. As we had never heard or know how it works upon accepting this project. However, after much research online and hand-on session, we began to understand the logics behind the algorithm and started to build our system from scratch. Thus, we are now more confident in using the new framework and technical risk for our project has become relatively low along the process. In addition, we had also learnt how to better design the architecture of our database and user interface to meet the needs of our clients for future expansion and scalability.


Scope Management

As a team, we would provide creative ideas for our clients so as to constantly improve our current features. However, we have also learnt to manage both our client and supervisor’s expectations by prioritizing the importance and changes to the scope of our project. Therefore, the learning point as a team would be to consistently adapt our expectation to the additional or changes of our project scope.


Vivian's Reflection

FYP has indeed been a challenging yet rewarding journey for me. I have learnt that what’s important in a team is not just the expertise of each individual but, the continuous support from each other that kept us going! Along the way, we faced both technical and project management obstacles yet it’s through all these that bonded us and taught us to better express ourselves to one another. Hence, effective communication is one of the important takeaways a skill I have honed.

Last but not least, I am thankful that we survived and walked through the whole journey together as a team. I am certain that every single one of us have somehow developed some interpersonal and technical skills along the way which will greatly help us in the future.

And, I believe our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.