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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
Dr. Sawyer
Due: December 2, 2000
Project Four
Formal With a Touch of the "Bazaar"
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 Gant 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 Gant 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.
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.
 Click to see our Gant Chart!
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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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