Week 6
Week 6
Bryan Nehl - Journal Observations
Last week it only took 5 minutes to get all materials wrapped up and posted to the web. I had originally estimated 5 minutes. This week I'm lowering the time estimate to 10 minutes.
This week, the very first night we decided what specific items for everyone to work on and set our next meeting time. This seemed a much more efficient meeting--that is once we were all connected.
As the class has progressed I'm gravitating towards the thinking that some tasks don't deserve productivity numbers and that some that are pure overhead or waste of team deserve a 0 productivity. For instance having issues with getting meeting software to work would be a 0 productivity. To the extent that it frustrates all parties involved it could potentially be a negative productivity! Tracking productivity of iterative work on a joint effort is difficult and the overhead may outweigh the benefit. For example, we had three people working on a document. We would visit the document numerous times, building up an initial outline for each of our parts. Parts were not necessarily consecutive. Thus making a journal entry productivity number time consuming to calculating. An overall document productivity number may be meaningful for estimating future similar tasks for the exact same team.
This week, video time was 111 minutes, team time 264 minutes and write paper time was 333 minutes. Again, the team and write paper times were roughly three times the video time. Using an agenda with more specific team member assignments we were able to reduce our amount of team time. We were also more familiar with the meeting and document sharing environment.
Next week we will likely continue with the more specific work assignments as that worked well.
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Date |
Start |
End |
Interrupt |
Delta |
Productivity |
Activity |
Comments |
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2009-07-12 |
23:55 |
00:14 |
0 |
19 |
Hw Req |
Checking Homework Requirements |
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2009-07-13 |
00:15 |
00:27 |
0 |
12 |
Planning |
Planning out time to work on assignments |
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|
13:44 |
14:08 |
0 |
24 |
1.0896 |
Video |
Planning |
|
|
20:35 |
21:00 |
0 |
25 |
0 |
Team |
Trying to meet up virtually - initial computer GPO didn't allow skype |
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21:00 |
21:30 |
0 |
30 |
Team |
Review work load and divided it up |
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21:31 |
21:41 |
0 |
10 |
Write Paper |
Created initial documents in workspace - who is doing what parts |
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21:42 |
21:51 |
0 |
9 |
Research |
reviewing IEEE documents for specifics of what should be in the documents |
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2009-07-14 |
13:12 |
13:52 |
0 |
40 |
0.425 |
Read Text |
Chapter 10 |
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13:55 |
14:02 |
0 |
7 |
Notes |
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14:04 |
14:22 |
0 |
18 |
1.113 |
Video |
WBS |
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|
20:19 |
22:02 |
51 |
52 |
0.6849 |
Video |
Cost Estimation |
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2009-07-15 |
14:52 |
16:02 |
5 |
65 |
0.1846 |
Read Text |
Dense material and a bit tired in a warm room after lunch |
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16:25 |
16:28 |
0 |
3 |
Notes |
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16:30 |
16:47 |
0 |
17 |
0.9539 |
Video |
Organization |
|
|
18:00 |
19:09 |
3 |
66 |
Write Paper |
Test Plan, completed sections 10 and 11 |
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19:12 |
19:16 |
0 |
4 |
Write Paper |
SQA Plan |
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19:55 |
20:14 |
1 |
18 |
Write Paper |
Test Plan, completed sections 12 and 13 |
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|
20:25 |
20:38 |
0 |
13 |
Write Paper |
Test Plan, completed section 14 |
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21:01 |
21:01 |
0 |
1 |
Team |
Skype meeting to review progress - they are not ready |
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21:02 |
21:11 |
0 |
9 |
Write Paper |
Working on SQA Plan |
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21:11 |
22:02 |
0 |
51 |
Team |
Skype meeting w/LC - Status report on progress Reviewed & revised documents spent some time discussing the class & the MSE program in general Agreed to next meeting date/time |
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2009-07-16 |
00:22 |
01:32 |
2 |
68 |
Write Paper |
SQA Plan, section 15 completed. Worked on other sections. |
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|
20:26 |
20:58 |
0 |
32 |
Write Paper |
SQA Plan, sections 8 and 10 completed. Just need to upload to document. |
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21:02 |
22:21 |
0 |
79 |
Team |
Skype meeting - reviewed SQA and Test docs progress |
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2009-07-17 |
00:04 |
00:55 |
6 |
45 |
Write Paper |
SQA Plan, completed section 5 |
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|
01:03 |
02:11 |
0 |
68 |
Write Paper |
SQA Plan, completed section 6, emailed team status |
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|
18:33 |
19:47 |
2 (phone) |
78 |
Team |
Skype meeting - 7 minutes for computer tonight |
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2009-07-19 |
14:00 |
14:52 |
2 |
50 |
Final Prep |
Reviewed slides up to Conv Soft Eng Principles |
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|
18:30 |
18:50 |
0 |
20 |
Journal Chart |
Putting information together |
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18:50 |
19:05 |
0 |
15 |
Journal Observations |
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19:06 |
19:09 |
3 |
Journal Chart |
Last update after analysis |
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19:09 |
19:13 |
4 |
Web |
Estimated 10 minutes |