WARS

Weekly Activities Reports

Week 24 - Apr. 30 - May 6

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Presentation video content Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Presentation review and formatting James Stewart, Son Nguyen, Michael Giba, Quang Nguyen, Thaddeus Rix 5 hours 5 hours Completed
Documentation review James Stewart, Son Nguyen, Michael Giba, Quang Nguyen, Thaddeus Rix 10 hours 10 hours Completed
User manual content Michael Giba 3 hours 3 hours Completed

Week 23 - Apr. 23 - Apr. 29

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Project plan content/formatting James Stewart, Son Nguyen, Michael Giba, Quang Nguyen, Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Requirements doc content/formatting James Stewart, Son Nguyen, Michael Giba, Quang Nguyen, Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Project design content/formatting James Stewart, Son Nguyen, Michael Giba, Quang Nguyen, Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed
User's manual content/formatting Son Nguyen 4 hours 4 hours Completed
Developer's manual Michael Giba 6 hours 6 hours Completed
Presentation video content Thaddeus Rix 4 hours 4 hours Completed
Presentation verbiage James Stewart, Quang Nguyen 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Presentation workshopping James Stewart, Michael Giba, Son Nguyen 3 hours 3 hours Completed

Week 22 - Apr. 16 - Apr. 22

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Becky meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 1 hour Completed Assisted Becky with special request assignment and admin panel usage
User manual creation James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
User manual content James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed Intro information and system components
Assignment algorithm Thaddeus Rix 4 hours 5 hours Completed
eBooklet Michael Giba 1 hour 1 hour Completed
User manual content/formatting Quang Nguyen 3 hours 3 hours Completed
User manual content/formatting Son Nguyen 4 hours 4 hours Completed
WARs updating/brazos document updating James Stewart 2 hours 3 hours Completed

Week 21 - Apr. 9 - Apr. 15

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Update the site Quang Nguyen 2 hours 3 hours Completed Backlog items
Assignment algorithm Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 10 hours Completed Redesign of algorithm based on requirements change
Becky meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 1 hour Completed Discussed processes involved with special requests and building layouts
Client/SRS committee correspondence James Stewart 4 hours 4 hours Completed
SRS committee meeting James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
eBooklet Michael Giba 4 hours 3 hours Completed

Week 20 - Apr. 2 - Apr. 8

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Create archived poster page Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Precisely render name badges on html page Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Modified assignment algorithm Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed Enhanced algorithm to function with special requests
Becky meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 2 hours Completed Discussed further requirements
Table layout modification Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 3 hours Completed
Review design document Son Nguyen 2 hours 1 hour Completed Update diagrams and screenshots of website to current version
Client/SRS committee correspondence James Stewart 4 hours 4 hours Completed

Week 19 - Feb. 26 - Apr. 1

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
WARs updates/planning James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Brazos site update James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Create SRS Poster James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Name badges adjustments Quang Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Table assignment admin tool Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Backlog items Everyone 4 hours 4 hours Completed
Review design document Son Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed Created new activity diagram
SRS subcommittee meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 2 hours Completed
Becky Meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 2 hours Completed Discussed her role and covered methods for achieving her goals.
Table generation modifications Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Plug-in table generation algorithm Thaddeus Rix, Quang Nguyen 1 hour 2 hours Completed
Fix bug chair portal Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed It was incorrectly rendering posters in chair portal
Change structure of name badge Quang Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Change order of authors/advisors Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed Change order of authors and advisors in all submissions page
SRS committee/client correspondence James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed

Week 18 - Mar. 19 - Mar. 25

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Meeting with Kathy Ferguson James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed Discussed her role and taught her how to use the admin panel
Edit abstract James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Meeting with Dean's Office James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed Attempt to find picture of Michael and Sally McCracken
Backlog items Everyone 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Client requests James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Client requests Quang Nguyen 3 hours 3 hours Completed
SRS subcomittee meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Generate table report tool Quang Nguyen 2 hours 1 hour Completed
Fix generate ballot tool Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Add SciComm page Quang Nguyen 2 hours 3 hours Completed
Bug fix Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed Extended length of fields in chair models; counting poster in all submissions page

Week 17 - Mar. 12 - Mar. 18

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Write SRS abstract James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Edit SRS abstract Thaddeus Rix, James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Team planning James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Backlog items Everyone 4 hours 5 hours Completed
Client requests Quang Nguyen 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Subcommittee meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Shorten paginator Quang Nguyen 2 hours 3 hours Completed

Week 16 - Mar. 5 - Mar. 11

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Separate admin account for Becky Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Private poster viewer for ballot Michael Giba 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Requirements adjusting James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Site testing/QA Son Nguyen 4 hours 4 hours Completed
Backlog items Everyone 4 hours 4 hours Completed
Name badges Quang Nguyen 1 hour 2 hours Completed
Client requests Quang Nguyen 3 hours 3 hours Completed

Week 15 - Feb. 26 - Mar. 4

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Site testing Everyone 10 hours 10 hours Completed Completed
Heavy stress testing/user testing Son Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Backlog items Everyone 5 hours 5 hours Completed
Name badges Quang Nguyen 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Contact Us page Quang Nguyen 1 hour 2 hours Completed Dynamically change names displayed in Contact Us page
Prepare before going live Quang Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed Completed Change wording, update correct information, etc

Week 14 - Feb. 19 - Feb. 25

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Add verbiage to the site Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed In submit page, beneath Poster Workshop Dates, etc
Special requests Quang Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Bug fixing Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed Fixing chair login, non-alphanumeric character in names
Becky meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 2 hours Completed
Documentation review James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
WARs and team planning James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
QA Son Nguyen 2 hours 1 hour Completed

Week 13 - Feb. 12 - Feb. 18

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Algorithm design Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix 4 hours 4 hours Completed
Algorithm implementation Michael Giba 4 hours 4 hours Completed
Algorithm testing Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix 4 hours 4 hours Completed
Algorithm summary Thaddeus Rix 3 hours 2 hours Completed
QA Son Nguyen 4 hours 4 hours Completed
WARs and team planning James Stewart 2 hours 1 hour Completed
Backlog items Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Documentation review Thaddeus Rix, James Stewart 2 hours 3 hours Completed
Poster viewer - location tool Quang Nguyen 2 hours 3 hours Completed
Ballot - online poster viewer Michael Giba 2 hours 2 hours Completed
QA - platform testing Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Revise project plan James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Table algorithm optimization Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 1 hour Completed

Week 12 - Feb. 5 - Feb. 11

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Algorithm design Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix 5 hours 5 hours Completed
Algorithm implementation Michael Giba 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Algorithm testing Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 3 hours Completed
Becky meeting Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Comnplete Ask about how the Poster Guide is generated and getting the .xls changed to .csv format
Grammar check paluxy James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Deadline testing Son Nguyen 1 hour 2 hours Completed Set the deadline to test - detected clock problem
Presentation preparation Everyone 1 hour each 1 hour each Completed
Poster viewer - location tool Quang Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed Location link on poster to help public find location of poster being presented
Backlog items James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed Completed a handful of backlog items from scrum
WARs and team planning James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Verbiage and UX update James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
QA Son Nguyen 3 hours 3 hours Completed Test main website, test chair function: password change not work - interdisciplinary chair not work correctly

Week 11 - Jan. 29 - Feb. 4

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Project planning James Stewart 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Deadlines Quang Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed
UX design Michael Giba 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Documentation review James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Privacy flag model changes and migrations Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Privacy flag functionality Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Privacy flag testing Son Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Yuri meeting Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 1 hour Completed Discussed specific considerations for how his algorithm generated table assignments
Algorithm logic Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 3 hours Completed
Algorithm design Thaddeus Rix 6 hours 8 hours Completed
Registration portal guidance verbiage Quang Nguyen 3 hours 2 hours Completed
Site text updates as per scrum doc Michael Giba 4 hours 3 hours Completed
Ballot PDF creation Michael Giba 2 hours 3 hours Completed
WARs and Scheduling Updating James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Create Presentation James Stewart 3 hours 3 hours Completed Iteration 3 Presentation for Feb. 7th
Check Transferred Wording to New Site James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
QA Son Nguyen 4 hours 4 hours Completed

Week 10 - Jan. 22 - 28

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Styling research and design Son Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed Planning the design of paluxy.cs.tcu.edu
Styling development Son Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Code review James Stewart, Quang Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Scheduling James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed
WARs James Stewart, Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 2 hours Completed Gather info from members and update WARs spreadsheet and Brazos site
WARs planning James Stewart, Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 1 hour Completed Planning for consistent timely delivery of team WARs
Password reset functionality Quang Nguyen 5 hours 5 hours Completed
Design for email link Michael Giba 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Email link template creation Michael Giba 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Backend email link development Michael Giba 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Add site styling Michael Giba 2 hours 2 hours Completed

Week 9 - Jan. 15 - 21

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Brazos site update James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Table assignment algorithm Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 3 hours Completed
Support change/reset password Quang Nguyen 4 hours 5 hours Completed
Important date update James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Scheduling James Stewart 1 hour 2 hours Completed Corresponding with clients and organizing team roles
Department model updates James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Migration of historic SRS data Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1 hour Completed Pulled down all posters from srs.tcu.edu
Code refactoring Michael Giba 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Code review Michael Giba 2 hours 2 hours Completed
Review of historic scheduling Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 1 hour Completed
Admin CSV upload funciton Thaddeus Rix 2 hours 3 hours Completed

Winter Break

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Update WARs, update brazos website Quang Nguyen 1 hour 1.5 hours Completed
Test SRS site Quang Nguyen 5 hours 9 hours Completed
Design document James Stewart 3 hours 3 hours Completed Create and revise design document
Brazos site update James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed Uploaded newest documents; fixed grammar errors
Determine winner function Quang Nguyen 4 hours 6 hours Completed
Send email after registration Quang Nguyen 4 hours 5 hours Completed

Week 8 - Dec. 11 - 17

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Test system James Stewart, Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix, Quang Nguyen, Son Nguyen 1 hour 2 hours Completed
Data migration James Stewart, Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix, Quang Nguyen, Son Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed Checking requirement fields, spellcheck

Week 7 - Dec. 4 - 10

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Register function Michael Giba 2 hours 3 hours Completed
Poster submission function Michael Giba 4 hours 4 hours Completed Checking requirement fields, spellcheck
Poster search function Michael Giba 4 hour 3 hour Completed

Week 6 - Nov. 27 - Dec. 3

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Create SRS website skeleton Michael Giba 3 hours 4 hours Completed
Testing SRS website James Stewart, Thaddeus Rix, Quang Nguyen, Son Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed Checking requirement fields, spellcheck

Week 5 - Nov. 20 - 26

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Iteration 2 discussion James Stewart, Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix, Quang Nguyen, Son Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed Discussed a plan to meet the deadline for iteration 2
Database linked to site Quang Nguyen, Michael Giba 3 hours 4 hours Completed Liased with Dr. Ma to interface the database schema with the site
Testing of database on site Thaddeus Rix, Son Nguyen, James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed

Week 4 - Nov. 13-19

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Admin panel Michael Giba 3 hours 3 hours Completed
Iteration 1 review James Stewart, Son Nguyen, Quang Nguyen, Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix 3 hours 4 hours Completed Review iteration 1 deliverables

Week 3 - Nov. 6-12

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Group learning James Stewart 2 hours 2 hours Completed Angular
Group learning Son Nguyen 2 hours 1 hour Completed YouTube videos
Document content James Stewart 1 hour 1 hour Completed Created design document with intro info
Reviewing database schema James Stewart, Michael Giba, Thaddeus Rix, Quang Nguyen, Son Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed Database schema review

Week 2 - Oct. 30 - Nov. 5

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Database schema Quang Nguyen 5 hours 6 hours Completed Created database schema for the entire system
Use Cases Thaddeus Rix 1 hour 3 hours Completed Drafted use cases for the project
Wireframe Son Nguyen 4 hours 4 hours Completed Use Visio 2013 to create wireframe
Architecture Michael Giba 1 hour 1 hour Completed Use Visio 2013 to create architecture
SRS brazos skeleton Michael Giba 3 hours 3 hours Completed Created skeleton SRS brazos site
Document drafting and revising James Stewart 4 hours 4 hours Completed Content creation and revisions to content
Document layout Quang Nguyen 2 hours 2 hours Completed Modified layout of document using Microsoft Word

Week 1 - October 23-29

Task Team Member Time Estimated Time Taken Status Comments
Document drafting and revising Thaddeus Rix, Quang Nguyen, Son Nguyen, Michael Giba, James Stewart 7 hours 7 hours Completed Project Plan
Learning Python and Django Quang Nguyen, Son Nguyen 2 hours 3 hours Not Completed Online tutorial and documentation of Python and Django
Use case diagrams James Stewart, Thaddeus Rix, Quang Nguyen, Michael Giba, Son Nguyen 1 hour 4 hours Completed Finalizing use case diagrams