This week we conducted our interview with the tutor, who was standing in for the client Dirk Divot.
We had done our preparation the week before, so we just had to make sure we had our questions ready to go and a plan for how to do the interview.
It went pretty well, with all team members contributing well to both the preparation and the interview itself. This was a pleasant change from other group work in other subjects.
We confirmed our understanding of the system and even discovered a few small new features.
This was a pretty good lab, because we got a good start on the assignment.
The lectures however are not so good. The lecturer is moving through the material far to slowly, and as a result not covering everything.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Tute 3
Today we listened to the podcast from Jason Fried of 37 Signals.
He talked about the development strategies that they used when they were creating Basecamp.
This was very interesting, and presented a well thought out alternative approach to software development.
Their approach emphasized keeping the application as small as possible - referred to as reducing mass - to enable changes and decisions to be made as easily as possible and spending as much time as possible working from the end users perspective. This means starting with creating the GUI and ensuring that the user experience actually meets the requirements rather than spending time developing functional specifications and use cases.
This approach to project management looks like it would enable rapid development and result in a superior product at the end, however it relies heavily on having the right personnel and might be difficult to implement in a larger organisation.
He talked about the development strategies that they used when they were creating Basecamp.
This was very interesting, and presented a well thought out alternative approach to software development.
Their approach emphasized keeping the application as small as possible - referred to as reducing mass - to enable changes and decisions to be made as easily as possible and spending as much time as possible working from the end users perspective. This means starting with creating the GUI and ensuring that the user experience actually meets the requirements rather than spending time developing functional specifications and use cases.
This approach to project management looks like it would enable rapid development and result in a superior product at the end, however it relies heavily on having the right personnel and might be difficult to implement in a larger organisation.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
tute 2
In todays lab session, se finished up the first activity.
The groups did their presentations on the different aspects of the systems that they ahd chosen.
A few groups did the smae parts opf the system, swhich initially seemed a bad thing, but turned out to be good because it enabled us to see different perspectives on the same parts of the systems.
This demonstrated that there is more than one correct way of analyzing a system.
The groups did their presentations on the different aspects of the systems that they ahd chosen.
A few groups did the smae parts opf the system, swhich initially seemed a bad thing, but turned out to be good because it enabled us to see different perspectives on the same parts of the systems.
This demonstrated that there is more than one correct way of analyzing a system.
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