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Week 2 Blog

Well we finally got our projects assigned and I’m pretty happy with the one I was put into. Picking a project was pretty difficult, there were so many options which were all very interesting. I was placed into the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory project where we have to design on top of their current software that helps measure the level of water in the facility while also allowing the filling and closing of valves to fill the water levels. I’m fairly excited to work on this project. I’m used to working on all virtual projects such as games or other types of utility software, never working with real hardware like valves. 

Now that we are finally going to begin working on this project, my team and I have decided to use discord as our main source of communication. This is going well because as a team communication is key, if we want to succeed in this project we will need to trust each other and work together. I’ve worked on projects before in school and out of school where communication becomes difficult because we are all working asynchronously and sometimes things don’t make as much sense or aren’t done efficiently to meet the entire group pace. So I’m hoping communication stays important and straight forward. 

We are now left trying to communicate with our project sponsor to get more information on developing the app/software that they need created. Our team has mentioned this briefly but I think its time to communicate it clearly so that we can create a meeting. In a professional environment I believe we should have contacted the sponsor as soon as we received the assignment. To proceed professionally and be eye to eye with the sponsor. I imagine as the client, they are very strict and pay tons of money. They would want communication and transparency over the project status to be key, for them to be comfortable and content with the development progress. Overall I’m glad to be this far into my career and on step closer to a real world paid project. 

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