26/Sep/2010 (11:00am-17:00pm)
Completed Use Case and reorganized the client meeting agenda. In the 1st version, the first client meeting would had been just like an intro but as to the client availability, we needed to know about their business as much as possible even on the first meeting. Our client is family owned accounting company and they have worked without an integrated system. Our initial template was on the right track and they seemed to be quite happy with that. One thing is that they do not want to force their client any change so that the client side page is not needed. We only need to focus on their side. New idea from them was a time sheet like function. With this function they can calculate how much they spend for the client. They said it was not must but it is challenging for us. They explained us details of their requirements nice and politely and spent more than one hour for us regardless of Sunday. We really appreciated that.
25/Sep/2010 (11:00am-18:00pm)
To avoid misunderstanding and to understand each other well, we started to have a morning meeting everyday. So that we could know the progress of each task also. We also had team meetings as needed basis but that was not enough we realized. That was just like a chatting and this time is a real meeting. What we need to do today? Report progress of each task? What we need to consider for another week? And I think it worked really well today. To describe use cases, we found that there are so much things we need to consider but we haven't like usability of a system. Before meeting our client, we are getting much more clear ideas and it is so good. Use case itself has almost done and time to work on use case description. To get more idea, I refereed Salesforce.com again and re-thought it is the great system.
24/Sep/2010
There are three. Two from Japan and one from Sri Lanka. There are three. One from IT and two from not. This is my team. Some times it's not easy to understand each other. Each of us need to try to understand each other. Each of us need to learn something from others with respect. I believe we can do. Today we discussed functionality of the system more. Without having any actual request from the client, there is only assumption of us there. Even though it is always good to have a discussion. And then focus on a login function. If it is absolutely must or not. What is the advantage and disadvantage. What about OpenID? Never end. But I am learning a lot. Thanks my friends. You are the best.
23/Sep/2010
Still working on the proposal document. Many things I cannot understand clearly are there. Code of ethics? Have we learned what this is? Well, started to create UML diagrams. First one is use cases. It supposed to have been my favorite but,,,cannot remember well. Got idea from my teammate. Getting clear now. We divided it into three parts like login, creating users and creating cases. As to the function of their client, we better suggest our ideas to our client. If possible, 2-3 options should be provided. Anyway hope we can finish it till this Saturday. I created new account for free hosting then we can upload our website for testing purpose. However, still internet connectivity is disgusting. After 6pm is the worst. Never connected. AIS doesn't allow us to use FTP and has got only poor network service. Any other options?
22/Sep/2010
AIS changed their Wi-Fi network system. We don't need to register our device anymore to use wireless network. It's OK. BUT, the connectivity is terribly bad. The login page comes up every 10min and disconnected quite often. We are working on the important project all day long which is recommended by college and we waste time there to try to re-connect. Network at my place is extremely better than college one. Not only connectivity but also speed. I wonder what the network administrator there doing? What is the solution for this problem? IT programme has got IT environment problem. Awful. Anyway, we are trying to create a first prototype in such a bad environment and found there is a new technique of ASP.Net there. ASP.Net MVC. It's different from traditional ASP.Net framework and it is more like manual coding way of programming. We can separate controls from design file so that it makes unit test easy. Unfortunately developing time is limited though it is worth knowing. So we will create prototype with using traditional ASP.Net and at the same time, try to understand this new technique for later final application developing if it's possible. Again, I lost my concentration because of the,,,,disappointed so much.
21/Sep/2010
1st presentation, project proposal. We really want to improve our presentation skills so we rehearse 3 times in the morning before the time. I don't think 3 times are enough but we all improved a lot from yesterday. Show time. For reviewing purpose, we decided to shoot video of our presentation. Be confident and relax, talked to myself. Without having a client meeting, we did it too well I thought. However, when I reviewed the video I realized it wasn't such a good. I used too much "Ah,,," and "Um,,,," and I don't like the way I behaved and the worst thing is we couldn't get synchronized with the audience. It clearly showed our presentation was not attractive enough. The good thing is that I could not satisfied that. It means still we could improve more. We have already got some idea to make our show dynamic so next will be much better.
20/Sep/2010
Completed Use Case and reorganized the client meeting agenda. In the 1st version, the first client meeting would had been just like an intro but as to the client availability, we needed to know about their business as much as possible even on the first meeting. Our client is family owned accounting company and they have worked without an integrated system. Our initial template was on the right track and they seemed to be quite happy with that. One thing is that they do not want to force their client any change so that the client side page is not needed. We only need to focus on their side. New idea from them was a time sheet like function. With this function they can calculate how much they spend for the client. They said it was not must but it is challenging for us. They explained us details of their requirements nice and politely and spent more than one hour for us regardless of Sunday. We really appreciated that.
25/Sep/2010 (11:00am-18:00pm)
To avoid misunderstanding and to understand each other well, we started to have a morning meeting everyday. So that we could know the progress of each task also. We also had team meetings as needed basis but that was not enough we realized. That was just like a chatting and this time is a real meeting. What we need to do today? Report progress of each task? What we need to consider for another week? And I think it worked really well today. To describe use cases, we found that there are so much things we need to consider but we haven't like usability of a system. Before meeting our client, we are getting much more clear ideas and it is so good. Use case itself has almost done and time to work on use case description. To get more idea, I refereed Salesforce.com again and re-thought it is the great system.
24/Sep/2010
There are three. Two from Japan and one from Sri Lanka. There are three. One from IT and two from not. This is my team. Some times it's not easy to understand each other. Each of us need to try to understand each other. Each of us need to learn something from others with respect. I believe we can do. Today we discussed functionality of the system more. Without having any actual request from the client, there is only assumption of us there. Even though it is always good to have a discussion. And then focus on a login function. If it is absolutely must or not. What is the advantage and disadvantage. What about OpenID? Never end. But I am learning a lot. Thanks my friends. You are the best.
23/Sep/2010
Still working on the proposal document. Many things I cannot understand clearly are there. Code of ethics? Have we learned what this is? Well, started to create UML diagrams. First one is use cases. It supposed to have been my favorite but,,,cannot remember well. Got idea from my teammate. Getting clear now. We divided it into three parts like login, creating users and creating cases. As to the function of their client, we better suggest our ideas to our client. If possible, 2-3 options should be provided. Anyway hope we can finish it till this Saturday. I created new account for free hosting then we can upload our website for testing purpose. However, still internet connectivity is disgusting. After 6pm is the worst. Never connected. AIS doesn't allow us to use FTP and has got only poor network service. Any other options?
22/Sep/2010
AIS changed their Wi-Fi network system. We don't need to register our device anymore to use wireless network. It's OK. BUT, the connectivity is terribly bad. The login page comes up every 10min and disconnected quite often. We are working on the important project all day long which is recommended by college and we waste time there to try to re-connect. Network at my place is extremely better than college one. Not only connectivity but also speed. I wonder what the network administrator there doing? What is the solution for this problem? IT programme has got IT environment problem. Awful. Anyway, we are trying to create a first prototype in such a bad environment and found there is a new technique of ASP.Net there. ASP.Net MVC. It's different from traditional ASP.Net framework and it is more like manual coding way of programming. We can separate controls from design file so that it makes unit test easy. Unfortunately developing time is limited though it is worth knowing. So we will create prototype with using traditional ASP.Net and at the same time, try to understand this new technique for later final application developing if it's possible. Again, I lost my concentration because of the,,,,disappointed so much.
21/Sep/2010
1st presentation, project proposal. We really want to improve our presentation skills so we rehearse 3 times in the morning before the time. I don't think 3 times are enough but we all improved a lot from yesterday. Show time. For reviewing purpose, we decided to shoot video of our presentation. Be confident and relax, talked to myself. Without having a client meeting, we did it too well I thought. However, when I reviewed the video I realized it wasn't such a good. I used too much "Ah,,," and "Um,,,," and I don't like the way I behaved and the worst thing is we couldn't get synchronized with the audience. It clearly showed our presentation was not attractive enough. The good thing is that I could not satisfied that. It means still we could improve more. We have already got some idea to make our show dynamic so next will be much better.
20/Sep/2010
Checked the visibility of PPT in the presentation room and discussed what we need to present on a first presentation tomorrow. Project description is my part. It's not easy. Think I need to place on audience side. How much they can understand without knowing anything in advance. Need to explain about what is a CRM, of course, and what is an accountant perhaps. A CRM is obviously a key word so I created a diagram to explain it. It seemed to be all right. What about an accountant. In a first team rehearsal, I explained it without any visual material and got suggestion. Better to draw another diagram. I agreed though I am not good in drawing. Then we performed in front of our supervisor. We got many valuable advice from him. First in spite of our best efforts,there were still many reputations in our slides like introduction of team members. We cut it. Second, time is money as usual. So if we want to show something besides slides, we better prepare in advance like links to referential websites or other documents. And finally, to grab audience, we we need to gather their attentions using effective words and phrases. I remember when I did the first presentation in semester1, I researched a bit about what are the points of presentation and slides and found article about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' presentation. Presentation is not a small part of a project. It is important without doubt. I believe we could improve our presentation skills as well.
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