planning/monitoring

intro & ordered task list | project plan/schedule | weekly progress reports | plan worked-out

plan worked-out

Below is how the plan worked out in practice. Many of the contingency days were used, especially the ones near the end of the project. If I had never set aside any contingency days I would have not finished on time.

Stage in cycle   Task/subtask name   w/c 26-Mar   w/c 02-Apr   w/c 09-Apr   w/c 16-Apr   w/c 23-Apr
Investigation   Plan interview   01-Apr (1hr)           
    Interview PSD partners   01-Apr (1hr)                
-   ¬ Analysis of interview   01-Apr (2hrs) WPR*              
-   Evaluation of similar website       03-Apr (4hrs)            
-   End-user survey       03-Apr (2dys)            
-   ¬ Analysis of results       06-Apr (1hr)            
-   Overall requirements       06-Apr (3hrs)            
    ¬ List of goals       06-Apr (1hr)            
Contingency allowance (07-Apr) NOT USED
Design   Website branding       08-Apr (2hr) WPR*          
-   Content explanation           10-Apr (2hrs)        
-   Structure and navigation           10-Apr (2hrs)        
-   Accessibility and Style           10-Apr (2hrs)        
-   Initial design           11-Apr (2hrs)        
-   Story boards           11-Apr (4hrs)        
Implementation   Dev process explanation           12-Apr (1hr)        
-   1st prototype (ver 1.0)           12-Apr (5hrs)        
-   PSD questionnaire           13-Apr (2hr)        
-   ¬ Analysis of feedback           14-Apr (1hr)        
-   ¬ Document changes           14-Apr (2hrs)        
-   2nd prototype (ver 2.0)           15-Apr (2hrs)        
-   End-user questionnaire           15-Apr (2hrs) WPR*      
-   ¬ Analysis of feedback               17-Apr (1hr)    
-   ¬ Document changes               17-Apr (2hrs)    
-   Complete website (ver 3.0)             17-Apr (3hrs)    
Testing   Test plan               18-Apr (1hr)    
-   Test log               18-Apr (2hrs)    
-   ¬ W3C XHTML validation               18-Apr (0hrs)    
-   Document changes               18-Apr (2hrs)    
-   End-user questionnaire               19-Apr (2hr)    
Evaluation   Goals met?               20-Apr (2hrs)    
(21-Apr) UNPLANNED EVENT
-   Questionnaire results               22-Apr (2hrs)    
-   Improvement               22-Apr (1hrs) WPR*  
Proposal   Research               24-Apr (1hr)    
-   ¬ Functionality write up               24-Apr (2hrs)    
-   ¬ E-commerce write up               24-Apr (2hrs)  
Contingency allowance (25-Apr) NOT USED
DEADLINE MET   -                   26-Apr-2006

* Weekly progress reports.

This concludes the planning/monitoring section of this unit's e-portfolio. In the following pages you will see all the work completed during this timescale.

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