Monday, June 2, 2008

Capstone issues

I had a meeting with my stakeholders friday May 30th at 9am. I was hopefull that since we had an agenda we would be able to work through creating a production calendar for the year. Unfortunately, some of the key people were not able to stay beyond 9:30 am which was not enough time to gather the information needed. It was also difficult to keep everyone on task.

I did manage to gather some dates for when things were due and also to explain the importance of planning ahead and of sahring the information. Hopefully, this will sink in an everyone will realize the benefits of clear communication.

The next issue is the fact that much of my capstone is dependent on another person (programmer) this is really becoming a problem and perhaps I need to rewrite my proposal and all of my capstone documents to adjust this issue. I have so far not been able to get any work delivered from the other student. I am going to try and build the site myself in Joomla.
I need to review the schedule and perhaps I should discontinue having the other student work on this project. I'm not sure if that is feasible at this point...It is very disappointing when other people don't deliver their part of the work.
If this was a project I was managing in the work place I would have several ways to deal with this issue....but since this is a school project the incentive is not the same for each of us working on this project.

I am really frustrated by the lack of commitment I am experiencing both from my stakeholders and my programmer.

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