Firstly I have to say that I unfortunately didn't have enough time to write a blog entry for that little competition that POD organised. I'm not the greatest blogger out there and plus, I'm not really interested in the Deloitte interview anyway. While we're at Deloitte, my wife works for them as a n auditor. She started last year as a graduate also...
Last week, on Tuesday, we had a quick group meeting where we discussed some issues that came upe recently about people not putting enough effort into the project. I don't think that Craig took it very well but he is aware that he's not doing enough. We told him and Paul that we expect a bit more input specially when it comes to the various documents - test plan, revised standards and governance etc.
The problem that I see with this approach is that we'll still have to revise their work! I wasn't too happy with the quality of their work before, specially Craig's. I mean, for one of the reports, he finished his part by giving me heaps of bullet points!!!! I mean c'mon!
My advanced search 'quest' is looking good for now. I've done some good work last week with some help from Jason. We'll probably have a meeting with Jon this week to show him the progress and to get some feedback from him. We also found out that the reason for triggers not working is the version of MySql on the server! It apparently needs at least v5.0 to work and currently, 4.02 is installed on the server. We have to do some thinking to decide what to do....
ok...this is it for now....i might pop in another post this week after the meeting...
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Crazy times
Its a beginning of the week 2 and the pressure is already on. Mr. JonJohnston of HPMuseum decided to add to his requirements and to make it more complicated....it sucks! His interpretation of the phrase 'Advanced Search' is ridiculous! We'll have to have a meeting with him this week to clarify few things...
Me and Steve have been doing some serious work over the last week. It took it upon myself to finish the "Advanced Search" option and it going pretty well....Steve is working on other two sections but the problem is still the fairly small workload for other guys....especially Paul and Craig! Jason wants to help and he really does...Craig missed another meeting last week and we'll have some serious talk tomorrow.
The pressure is really starting to mount! We set the goal of finalizing the project by week 9 or 10 so there is really not too much time left! Other subjects are starting to "ask for their share of time" so good time management is crucial !!! Last thing I want is to fall behind....
I should be able to finish advanced search by the end of the week but it might need some adjustments once the client sees it. The major issue we have right now is the 'What's new" Section....client's requirements are way too complicated and for once, we'll have to reject some f them. The problem is that his original requirements were pretty vague and even though we discussed it with him earlier, he changed it drastically....hopefully we'll be able to work thing out and satisfy him....
thatsit for now...looking forward to this week - my tutorials are starting and I'm doing some very interesting subjects.....cheers!
Me and Steve have been doing some serious work over the last week. It took it upon myself to finish the "Advanced Search" option and it going pretty well....Steve is working on other two sections but the problem is still the fairly small workload for other guys....especially Paul and Craig! Jason wants to help and he really does...Craig missed another meeting last week and we'll have some serious talk tomorrow.
The pressure is really starting to mount! We set the goal of finalizing the project by week 9 or 10 so there is really not too much time left! Other subjects are starting to "ask for their share of time" so good time management is crucial !!! Last thing I want is to fall behind....
I should be able to finish advanced search by the end of the week but it might need some adjustments once the client sees it. The major issue we have right now is the 'What's new" Section....client's requirements are way too complicated and for once, we'll have to reject some f them. The problem is that his original requirements were pretty vague and even though we discussed it with him earlier, he changed it drastically....hopefully we'll be able to work thing out and satisfy him....
thatsit for now...looking forward to this week - my tutorials are starting and I'm doing some very interesting subjects.....cheers!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
We're back...!
So....the second semester starts this week, hopefully, the final one for me! I can't believe that I have only 13 weeks left to complete my degree! Crazy....
I also got my results back last week and I'm not 100% happy but the main thing is that I passed all units.
As far as the IE goes, we've made some very good progress during the break. We've started the advanced search function, completed HP Divisions section and also got a good progress on 'What's new" section. We also got some other stuff out o the way so the main issue now is to make sure we don't miss out on any of the requirements.
We had a meeting with a client over the break to show him a progress and it was good to see that he was happy with it. It gave us more confidence that the project will be finished on time.
The first lecture adn tutorial were on today and it was pretty basic stuff. One thing thats on my mind is the conversation we had between myself, Jason and Steve. We pretty much agree that the other two guys are not putting enough effort in the whole process! Craig missed a tute today again ... we decided to speak to them next week and to put an end to it! If it still continues, we'll have to speak to Dave about it....for now, let us try to resolve it...
Ok thats it for now. I have to make sure I blog regularly this semester....
I also got my results back last week and I'm not 100% happy but the main thing is that I passed all units.
As far as the IE goes, we've made some very good progress during the break. We've started the advanced search function, completed HP Divisions section and also got a good progress on 'What's new" section. We also got some other stuff out o the way so the main issue now is to make sure we don't miss out on any of the requirements.
We had a meeting with a client over the break to show him a progress and it was good to see that he was happy with it. It gave us more confidence that the project will be finished on time.
The first lecture adn tutorial were on today and it was pretty basic stuff. One thing thats on my mind is the conversation we had between myself, Jason and Steve. We pretty much agree that the other two guys are not putting enough effort in the whole process! Craig missed a tute today again ... we decided to speak to them next week and to put an end to it! If it still continues, we'll have to speak to Dave about it....for now, let us try to resolve it...
Ok thats it for now. I have to make sure I blog regularly this semester....
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