Revision as of 15:08, 27 November 2012

Project Management: Critical Project Review

Cause for Corrective Action

Challenges That Have Been Addressed

Communication

The main communication problems were as follows:

• Primary mode of communication was text messaging.
• Miscommunication of assignment due dates.

These were addressed by adding more modes of communication.

• Emails are sent out weekly containing agendas of the meetings, due dates, new meeting times, etc.
• We have set up a photobucket.com account so all pictures will be available for anyone in the group to access.
• We have set up google docs account so all material being worked on will be available to each group member.
• We have meetings about once a week and the minutes can be found in the table below.
  • After the due date of this gate, the updated meeting minutes and table will be found on gate 4 with updated information.

Table 1: Weekly Schedule

Monday Meeting Minutes

Oct 22:

• Determined the time and date of dissection.
• Will meet Tuesday, October 23, 9am to 11pm in the lab.
• Lab is located in 621 Furnas.
• If we do not finish within the two hours, we will find another time to meet.
  • Added Tuesday: We will meet Wednesday, October 24, 10am to 12 pm, in the lab to finish dissection.

Oct 29:

• Determined group issues will be discussed at a meeting with the professors
  • Will meet Thursday , November 1, 11:30am in office hours.
  • Office hours are held in 203 Furnas Hall
• Hours each group member spent on Gate 2
  • Tiffany- 30
  • Nick- 5
  • John- 3
  • Liz- 1
  • Garrett- 1

Nov 5:

• Met in the dissection lab
  • Started work on Gate 3
  • Worked from 10:30am to 11:30am
  • Who was there: John, Liz, Tiffany, Nick
  • Who was supposed to be there: everyone
• Will meet Tuesday, November 6. Time and place TBD.

Nov 12:

• 2pm in the basement of Capen Library
• The meeting lasted about 15 minutes.
• Our agenda was to split up the parts for gate 3.
  • Cause for corrective action- Tiffany
  • Component summary- John
  • Product analysis- Nick and Tiffany
  • Solid Modeled Assembly- Started by Nick
  • Engineering Analysis- Liz
  • Design Revisions- Garrett

The parts will be finished and sent to Tiffany via email by 5pm on Wednesday

Nov 19: No meeting was held this week. Have a good holiday!

Nov 26:

• We will meet Tuesday, Nov 27 from 9-11am to reassemble our product.
  • Additional meetings will be added if needed
  • We will meet again Wednesday, Nov 28 at 10am to finish reassembly.

• Each group member was assigned a part to finish for Gate 4.
• Parts are due Thursday Nov 29 at 5pm to Tiffany's email.
  • Cause for Corrective Action- Tiffany
  • Product Reassembly- Two parts
    • John- Explain the assembly process. Include:
    1. the tool used
    2. a description of what you did
    3. how long each step took
    4. how the product was originally assembled
    • Liz- Any challenges we faced during reassembly and describe how they were overcome.
  • Mechanisms- Nick
  • Design Revisions- For this part, each group member will make one change for the product at the system level.
    1. change or elimination must address one or more GSEE factor
    2. change or elimination must improve performance, serviceability, cost, etc.
    3. keep in mind target audience and price point when making changes
• We have to make one of these changes into a presentation that is also due Friday.
• Someone will present to the class next week.
• Please send your parts to me in a format that will be easy to put up on the website and that follows good technical communication guidelines.

Dec 3: (Coming soon)

Wiki Organization

In our first gate, we were marked down highly because of our disorganization of the wiki page. We have changed roles and Tiffany has taken over the wiki programming. Comments from the grading rubric have been taken into consideration while this gate was being produced.