BTW ”If you go, my advice to you” - Distributed Software Development

Project status

Topics for today Project status & statistics Project problems & solutions Architecture status

Milestones Milestone IDDescription Planned completion week Actual completion week Status M001 Requirements analysis & definition w46 Complete M002Object class designw47 Complete M003Database designw48 Complete M004 Map wrapper / HTML/CSS w49 Complete M005 User server logic, JS interfaces w50 Almost done M006 Route and advices w51 -- In progress

Work Statistics

Members work MemberW45 W46W47W48 W49W50Total TN SM AZ GC SO DZ Total

7 Project costs The project status is: (very) slightly behind Some problem to understand other people’s work and unexpected database modification make the project slow-down. Current Planned Cost15600$ Current Actual Cost24421$ Planned Project Cost21600$ Forecasted Project Cost32400$

Activities plan review We are a half week behind due to problems We still have 2 whole weeks in reserve At work Completed Not started

Problems we are facing “ It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ” (Albert Einstein ) Difficulties in setting up environment SVN accounts and tools, installing packages, configuring the other tools with package Understanding others code and own responsabilty Testing data, Code mess up, coupling in different modules Integrating different technologies JavaScript with Ajax & PHP, Smarty Template, integration Communication Problem MSN, Skype, Text and Chatting

How we resolve them! Documentation for installing and guides ‾Documentation on group, figures to elaborate, co-ordination Code writing rules and cleaning ‾Rules on page, editor, settings Unit testing, commenting the test data ‾Modules testing on local code copy, commenting the testing data after completion “A problem well stated is a problem half solved” (John Dewey)‏ ‾Details, point by point directions, pictures for error

How does the documentation look Documentation for Installing and Guides

How does the website look

Architecture status Half way there -Completed advice storing, recieving, user management - Needs administration, commenting and flaging Completed - Added php calls also Half way there - Added user and advice logic - Still missing administration logic Completed Completed - Simplified structure for advice - Added advice properties Half way there – Forms for commenting and Rich Text Editor Half way there – AJAX calls to be done for commenting and flagging Almost done Completed Completed Prototype Prototype API using HTTP POST and JSON

Use cases completion

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