Well, the weekend was a busy one, and in all the excitement I completely forgot to post my weekly work blog on Friday. I apologize for the lateness of this post; hopefully my grade won't be affected too greatly.

I know this is a bit late. I got caught up in the middle of things on Friday and totally forgot. Anyways…This week was little less confusing and more productive. First of all, I helped figure out what needed changed on the Gantt chart. We changed what was accomplished to black and also extended some dates to have things finished according to each teams needs. I also met with the Design team throughout the week to figure where they stood on the project, what they were working, what they were going to be doing to finish up their part of the project, and if they needed any help with anything.

This week in class I resumed working on editing the Gantt chart for our project. I took what everyone was doing and I made that black on the Gantt chart. This signifies that the group was done with that part of their jobs. I also altered some of the Gantt chart by determining what can be done at this very moment for each group and determining what should wait until after thanksgiving. In regards to helping groups, I lead one of the meetings at the start of class. I also focused mainly on working with the front-end team.

This week our group was able to accomplish a bit more than last week. Personally I accomplished a good share of work on Monday and Friday. On Wednesday I was sick with an allergic reaction to something which caused me to swell up. On Monday my task was to meet with the Documents and testing team. Together we talked about where they were as a team, what still needed to be accomplished and what they were working on. I took notes and then when the org team met back up I discussed my group’s needs.

I know this is late, but there is more credit in posting late than not at all. This week, the main part that I did was create the gantt chart for the website. I created the chart by laying out all the jobs, and trying to determine the amount of time that would be needed for each thing. On Monday, I help the organization and coordination team by creating a sheet that the groups fill out each week, By having the groups do this, we are able to determine how each group is doing each week. This allows us to decide if we need to adjust the gantt chart, or if they are right on pace.

This week has been a little confusing for me. There has been a lot going on and a lot of hashing back and forth. I have no background in web design so much of my task this week has been asking questions to help better understand what each item means in the Gantt chart and how much time and effort some of these tasks take. This week I created a class group on gmail with Stephanie so that our group could easily distribute documents. I also helped created the deadline doc with Stephanie. Today, each of us visited each of the groups and asked about the project.

Our classroom project has gotten to a slow but sure start this week. Since my team hadn’t already set up the procedure for governing progress on the site, it was generally freely-run by the individual teams for the first few days. Still, by the end of the week our group had determined what duties we were responsible for and became far more effective in our leadership, and I believe this trend will continue in the upcoming weeks as we become more comfortable with our tasks.

For the first week of the project it was a little confusing for our team. We weren't quite sure what all we needed to do. We started off sending out documents to everybody. We made documents so any of the teams could post questions for the client if needed. We also had each team list all their tasks within their teams and how long each would take. After getting the feedback from the teams we took that information and put it into a gantt chart. We color coordinated each team to make it easy to follow.