Project almost done

Hi guys,

The project is almost up to the final stage. We are still adding the finishing touches of building it. At the same time, we’re testing the already completed parts of the database. These included the GUI and functionality testing for the Asset Module. User manuals are at the very preliminary stage and we cannot do anymore until Aaron and Tari have finished building.

The major problem for us now seems to be getting the coding finished on time. This seems rather difficult at this stage. So far, the coders have been meeting up every single day, but when they hit problems, they tell me that it takes a long time to overcome them. So worse comes to worse, we will hand in the test documentation on time (on as much as we have tested) and the User manuals will be developed with regards to the most likely way the system will be implemented.

The major reason for our time constraint was the 4-week delay we encountered at the start of semester 2, when it took 4 weeks for My-SQL to be set up in the K block labs. This held us back significantly and we are way behind other groups in terms of building. Despite our early requests for it to be set up, it was quite disappointing that it took 4 weeks to be finally set up. Therefore, we could not start coding till after those 4 weeks. I’m confident that if we even had 2 more extra weeks (instead of 4), we would be well on our way to finishing the project by now.

The biggest challenge within the next week or so will be getting the client sign-off based on what we have managed to code so far. Hopefully, we can convince them that ‘this is what the end system will be like’. However, we do have some of the major functionality working now. It is only a few more things we have to do. So hopefully by this Friday (when our next client meeting is), we will have something to present to the client.

Fingers crossed.

It’s 2.17am now so I’m off to sleep

Nite