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Acceptance Midterms Finals


Learning Outcome

Midterm


Chen Chen

  • People Management

I faced some challenges ensuring everyone follows strictly to the project schedule as most group members became very busy after the term starts. As workloads became heavier, I learned how to motivate group members to keep them going on their with the allocated tasks. However, there are some group members who are more difficult to manage than the rest. Thus, I have learned to do my best to continuously motivate group members to ensure that they do not fall behind the schedule.

Haja

  • Tasks Prioritization

After the decision to change over to Magento and as the school load was getting more, the number of tasks in my to do list was growing. Some of the tasks were so tough for me that I was unable to move on and caused some delays. I decided to change my strategy to divide my time such that I will be able to clear easier tasks faster. I got Chen Chen to help me prioritize based on her opinion. Then I prioritized the items based on my level of confidence. This way, although some of the difficult tasks are still left undone, I managed to reduce my tasks.

Jasper

  • Keep Calm

User Interface (UI) can be time consuming and complex depending on what is to be implemented. After Haja made the decision to switch to Magento, more time need to be invested to learn where edits are to be made and its not so simple as to just edit the CSS files. Often times get frustrated as some edits do not actually change the layouts and the most important thing I took away from this is to keep calm and eventually I will be able to do it.

Wilfred

  • Client Management

I’ve learned that clients are more than meets the eye, and will/can change their mind about requirements in between meetings! It’s also worth paying attention when they talk about their pain points and struggles with the way they’re currently doing things. They say the client is alright right but sometimes we have to say no and provide alternatives and suggestions to the client.

  • Quality Assurance

I’ve learnt that testing needs to be done early and often to ensure the quality of our deployment as well as setting clear goals and objectives for each session. It's easy to want to do too much in one single test session.