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Formal With a Touch of the "Bazaar"
GROUP 1 - Shaft
Church, Andrew; Crassweller, Mike; Dieter, Chris; Eisenberg, Ben; Lee,
Andy; Schulang, Adam
IST 110-002; Dr. Sawyer; Due: December 2, 2000
Problem
Assignment | Essay
Response
Works Cited | Gantt Charts
Project Planning and Analysis
As with Problem 3, in Problem 4 we decided to take a more in depth look
at project planning. Not only were we interested in what it would take
to again obtain a check plus in this area, after using the Gantt Chart
in Problem 3, we realized how effective it really can be. We decided to
go far and beyond the gant chart, including a look at the time we spent
on the project as we progressed through it. Of course we couldn't progress
as efficiently in our problem solving without a Gantt Chart, which is
included in a separate link. We recorded the time we spent on the project
as accurately as possible, and found that some of that IST time could
have been better used worked on Speech Communications. But we always made
sure that the quality of our work was our number one priority.
Gantt Chart
Throughout our work on the problem we predicted our work with a Gantt
Chart. We found that forming a chart of tasks at the beginning of the
problem greatly increased our productivity. We had the problem laid out
before us, and knew every task that we had to do and an estimated date
to be started and finished. This way we stayed on task and didn't run
the risk of saving everything to do until the due date. We have found
that having a Gantt Chart has become increasingly useful as we progress
to more complicated problems.
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Visual Procrastination
At the start of Problem 4, we wrote down an accurate estimate of the time we spent on group and individual work. We then gave an estimate of the time we spent on Problem 3 (SPC and IST combined) and compared this graphically to the most recent project. As you will see from the graphs, we seemed to manage our time in Problem 4 about the same but a little more efficiently and productively than in Problem 4. Although we admit that we do still procrastinate a good deal, we don't think that this is avoidable considering the increasing amount of information that we are offered as we get closer and closer to the problem deadline, and that the Speech Comm portion of Problem 4 was due ahead of the IST portion.
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