CS 175/286 - Lecture 8

Cay S. Horstmann

Projects

1. Android: Fei Wang, Tanuvir Singh, Rohit Vobbilisetti, Sravankumar Javaji*
2. iPhone: Luca Severini*, Joshua Wertheim, Hai Nguyen, Dhwanil Karwa
3. HTML5: Jon Vaccaro, Bernhard Mesa*, Huy Vu, Andy Wang
4. Windows phone: Steven Bui, Vinh Doan, Amru Eliwat*, Matthew Hwang
5. Unassigned (please see me after class): Timmy Tran, Tyler Stenette

Today's Lecture/Lab

• Project management
• Progress presentations

Project Management

• In software engineering course: requirements, design, implementation, testing
• In 10 weeks, there is no time to do it right
• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. — Antoine de Saint Exupéry (Attributed)
• Inch pebbles, not milestones. They are done or not done.
• Many short meetings
• Research is good, but it should lead to tangible results quickly
• The wiki is your friend
• It is better to ask for forgiveness later than for permission now

Source and Documentation Repository

• Make a github account and let me know what it is
• Use the github wiki
• Everyone checks in all their code
• Everyone makes sure that the code builds on everyone's machine
• ...and on my machine
• There will be unit tests

Weekly Report

• Each team member keeps an individual report on the wiki
• Pretend you are a contractor. Log every hour.
• Just update the Wiki when you are done with a stretch of work
• Team lead keeps a list of each meeting, a list of open issues, a list of inch pebbles
• Meeting: Date/time/anyone missing
• Open issues: Anything that makes you nervous. Cross out closed items (<del> in Markdown)
• Inch-pebbles: Add responsible person. Cross out achieved items, add new items.