planning/monitoring
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.
| Task/subtask name | w/c 26-Mar | w/c 02-Apr | w/c 09-Apr | w/c 16-Apr | w/c 23-Apr | |||||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| - | 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 |
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| 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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