Task ID: None – still perfecting Gantt chart in Microsoft Project.
I have finally completed a 33 page requirements report and feasibility study that adheres closely to the IEEE830 standard for a requirement report. I will submit this to EdAlive once it has been marked by the project supervisor.
The overall report took longer than expected for a few reasons – mainly I felt that the marks rested more in the feasibility study and I had not provided enough detail to get those marks. Other reasons include other university assignments and personal commitments.
The benefit of doing the report to the IEEE830 standard was it gave me a much clearer picture of the needs and requirements of the reward game. It focused some of my attention to issues such design constraints and performance requirements. This document is probably (almost certainly) overkill for a reward game and lots of it is just saying the same thing in different ways… but it does help.
So now the requirements and feasibility report are completed to a standard I am happy with, I will continue with the following tasks over the next few weeks:
- List the very fundamental tasks of the project. I lost 1.5 marks in my Preliminary Description for being too general. This has to be corrected before the next deliverable is due.
- Update the Gantt chart in Microsoft Project. Being a strange Microsoft product that I’ve hardly used before, this will take some time.
- Meet with EdAlive regarding documenting previous meetings, providing a Memorandum of Understanding, discussing analysis techniques (for example, how does the EdAlive development team usually design reward games?) and discuss/draw conceptual storyboards. This meeting date is yet to be set.
- Commence the Analysis phase. This will include lots of documentation about the data and the user interface logic of the game.
Feel free to make any comments.
