This week’s assignment was to come up with a ‘Team Technology Prototype’. We were given a development schedule starting at week 6, that had never been discussed, but it’s week 9, so our team felt a bit blindsided. Additionally since we weren’t aware of the prototype requirement, our focus has not been on development, but rather planning, design, and research, which has been the primary focus of all the material up to this point.
All in all, it doesn’t matter much for our project. We have a very very simple prototype working. Our project is very complex and requires technology that very few of us have experience with. There are some big pieces that need to be in place before it all works. Any of the larger functionality and capabilities described in our design document is going to take significantly more development time than we’ve had. Our project is that kind of problem where you work on it and you work on it and have nothing to show for it, until the last piece of the puzzle is in place, and then it will all fall together. We’ve accounted for this in our planning and design, any remaining time on the project will consist of optimization and expansion of the domain.
