What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
The most significant risk towards our success are running into integration issues while we begin working on combining the individual aspects of our project. As we should have most of our hardware components delivered by early next week, we should be past our risks with regard to shipping delays. However, it’s possible if we need to order more parts due to any unexpected issues we could run into delays. Even if so, we should be in good shape given our predicted slack time.
Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
No changes have been made to our existing block diagram. We will post an updated GANTT chart of our schedule in a blog post tomorrow.