Thursday, January 31, 2008

Tutorial 2 and 3rd meeting

Tutorial 2: To Identify the main stakeholders for the tutorial task 1
1. Users
2. Client Management
3. Trainers
4. Technical Support
5. Premises Management
6. Catering Service
7. Document Services


In the meeting, we have reviewed the draft copies of our software project plan. We have also look at our various deliverables like ER-diagram and data dictionary. We have also discussed on the use cases and functional/non-functional requirements. During the meeting, tasks has been allocated to each team member for the coming 2 weeks as we will not be having our weekly meeting during chinece new year.

Below is the minutes for the meeting:
http://www.freewebs.com/holtz311/meeting20080131v02.pdf

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Tutorial 1 and 2nd Meeting on 24 Jan 08

Tutorial 1: In this tutorial we discussed on the various Software Project Plan, below are our findings.

Rspa
Pros
1. Simple and generic style

Cons
1. No example to follow
2. Too generic and vague description

Dsdm
Pros
1. Professional style
2. Examples given

Cons
1. Too detail and complex
2. Takes time to understand and comprehend

UPEDU
Pros
1. Easy to understand and comprehend

Cons
1. Moderate detail

Software Project Plan from Chair of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Pros
1. Covers all managerial aspects of a project
2. Easy to understand
3. Useful help given

Cons
1. Too much detail

Conclusion: After some discussion, we have decide to adopt the last option which is the project plan from Chair of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Main reason is that it allows us to generate a comprehensive report in a short time constraint.

In the meeting, we have reviewed the draft copies of our software project plan and software requirement spec. We have also started discussion on our design specs.

Below is the minutes for the meeting:
http://www.freewebs.com/holtz311/meeting20080124v02.pdf

First Meeting on 19 Jan 2008

Team Members:

S8539305G Ho Wei Zhe
S8337246Z Lim Yong Keong
S8437490C Zhuo Senxian
S8321012E Oh Chin Hock
S8530018J Tan Boon Chin

Our first meeting was conducted on 19 Jan 2008, we first formed our group and sit down to get to know each other. HOLTZ was agreed as our company name, it was formed using the first letter of all our sir names (Ho, Oh, Lim, Tan & Zhuo) .

Our discussed on the roles of each member and came out with the below team.

Project Manager : Ho Wei Zhe

System Requirement/Change Management Lead: Lim Yong Keong

Technical Development/System Architect Design/Quality Assurance Lead : Zhuo Senxian

Graphical Interface/Configuration Lead: Oh Chin Hock

System Testing/Validation Lead: Tan Boon Chin


During the meeting, we went through the case scenario together and came out with a project strategy.

Below file is our minutes of meeting for 19 Jan 2008
http://www.freewebs.com/holtz311/meeting20080119v02.pdf