The beginning of this week was focussed on preparing the slides and deciding the content of the proposal presentation. On Sunday we met and discussed this, and spent time working on the PowerPoint as well as the Gantt chart.
Unfortunately, I became and still am ill with strep throat, so I wasn’t able to be as productive as I have originally planned. Furthermore, the TA team had issues with the scope of our project so I met with my teammates to discuss that. We also decided that our Gantt chart was too demanding – it was very rushed, and the weeks were all very demanding weeks. Theoretically, the workload I had assigned myself was possible if I didn’t have other classes and commitments. I decided to scale back on the amount of weekly work and reformatted my Gantt chart to reflect this.
I also thought about the modularity of our system. Since we’re all working in parallel, and expect (hope!) that the pieces come together to form a fully functioning system, I suggested to my teammates that we come up with some sort of diagram that outlines all software, hardware, and physical systems, as well as their inputs/outputs and the format they should be in. This way, we can give each other a standard to work off of when it comes to integrating and interfacing with different parts of the design. I have begun writing a list of modules for the performance scheduler as well as the inputs and outputs to each. Next week I hope to help my teammates come up with such a list for their parts and compile all this information into a diagram as a point of reference.