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GROUP 1 - Shaft
Church, Andrew
Crassweller, Mike
Dieter, Chris
Eisenberg, Ben
Lee, Andy
Schulang, Adam
Information Sciences and Technology 110-002
Speech Communication 100B-60
Dr. Sawyer
Professor Young
Due: November 11, 2000
Project Three - How to Integrate
IST 110 and SPC 100B Online
Project Planning and Analysis
With Problem 3 we decided to take a more in depth look at project planning.
Not only were we interested in what it would take to obtain a check plus in this area,
but also how an improved reflection on how we planned our project would help us on the
next problem area. 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 gant chart, which is included
in a separate link. We recorded the time we spent on the project as accurately as
possible, and compared this to the estimated time we spent on the second project.
The results are shown in the visual procrastination section.
Gant Chart
Throughout our work on the problem we predicted our work with a gant 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 gant chart has become increasingly useful as we
progress to more complicated problems. For example in our first problem we didn't
even bother looking at the chart, and in our most recent problem we used it efficiently.
 Click to see our Gant Chart!
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Visual Procrastination
From the beginning of Problem 3, 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 2 (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 3 a little more efficiently and productively than in Problem 2.
Although 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.
Click to see our Procrastination Graphs!
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