Project Journal Week 30

The main focus of this week was to continue refining the team report and also refine the presentation. During this week I constructed the presentation which was completed in rough form for the Wednesday. When constructing the presentation I found it difficult to strike a balance between getting all the information across as this was the last milestone, but also to keep it fairly short so it could fit into the presentation.

I ordered the slides in a similar way that the team report was organized as this seemed a good logical process. I also thought about who would be discussing the slides and that also helped form the process creation as well as the organization of it.
Wednesday 16th April 2008

The team went through refining the report on this date while I went through amending any points to the presentation. Initially I had 22 slides although many were very simple. After discussing it with the team it was decided it would be best to compact the slides.

Team Meeting with Supervisors - Thursday 17th April 2008

This meeting with the supervisors was very short. The meeting focused on the external examiner in the previous week and how the team had presented themselves very well. The only drawback came that each member could have emphasized what they each undertook during the milestone in better detail.

In the afternoon the team spent time refining the report even further. It was decided that the slides should be condensed even further. At the end of this meeting I delegated who would be doing what on the presentation.

Project Journal Week 29

During this week the team amended the team report. For me this meant amending the changes that Amanda and Claire had highlighted in my Implementation section. Claire noted that my section was difficult to read as I had referenced a particular table on the next page, so with the joint decision from the team, the information was summarised without using the table.

Additionally during this week the team had a meeting with the external supervisor who we gave a brief account of our progress up to this point and then proceeded to answer his questions.

Additionally to this week I began preparation to the presentation. Nick firstly set out the style of the presentation. I then began bullet pointing all the information within the presentation and writing a summary of information to be discussed on each slide.

Project Journal Week 28

During the easter break the team outlined a plan to rewrite the final team report. After showing it during the last week of term to Amanda and Claire, they highlighted many areas that needed adjusting. The plan was to rewrite the team dissenation with each member of the team heading thier own previous section and additional ones. For me this meant a complete rewrite of the Implementatin section. Additionally to this I was also given the task of writing an Objectives section and also the Abstract.



At the start of this week each member of the team presented thier work and adjustments were made accordingly. The team felt that the Abstract that I had wrote needed to be more succinct and also have a better introduction, so Nick adjusted these elements. Additionally to this, both the Implementation section as well as the Objectives section were adjusted as the team felt they were also quite wordy. The Objectives section that i had wrote was cut out all together as the team were worried about the word limit, so the objective points were planted straight in.



The team presented a brieft summary of this work to Amanda who suggested that we email her the most important sections of report. The plan now is to begin the writeup of the individual reports until Amanda and Claire read the sections that we emailed them.