DDD Appoved!

After a realy hard weekend, in which we barely sleep... Three reviewed documents (ADD, DDD, SVVP) were delivered on time :) and another one is on its way (STD).

Although It was a very difficult time and the workload was extremely high, I have to say that between all the work I have a good time. I really understand what is like to work in a great team, where everyone is involved and willing to help the other ones with their tasks!. It was awesome. we all spent three days, almost 24/7 on the Gmail chat coordinating ourselves, reviewing the different advances of the rest of the team and solving doubts. No member of the team stuck to their duties, when someone finished inmediatly helped the other! we all work like never... I'm pleased for being on the BLUE TEAM!

Today was the review of the first of the previously talked documents (the DDD) and... It's approved!

GO BLUE TEAM!!!!!!

Overload

Guys, I have to make an urgent call on you because next days will be kinda busy days for all of us. As you well know, there are some critical changes to perform in the documents we delivered more than two weeks ago. Such changes make us change also the documents we delivered after them, which supposes an exponential growth in the workload.

Now, it is not time to find a guilty one, but to work harder and better than ever before. I hope all the disappointment we feel makes us do our very best.

About humiliation and laughs, just remember that no laugh will ever break one of our bones. We are high above such concerns and nonsense.

Finally, just ensuring that I know we will develop documents much better than those already provided by the other teams, and promising you that I will do me best in this overwhelming situation.

Keep up the hard work!
Álvaro

-._Project Manager_.-

Great presentation!

[Post under construction]
Added in order to have the date of today. It just have to be edited and updated with the review of the presentation ;)

Review of ADD, working on SVVP and on the presentation

Hi!

Last week we only had one lecture, in which the ADD was reviewed. To the reviewer it was the worst document ever (as always). The truth is that we don't have to make too many changes, although they are big ones.

We are also working on the testing document (SVVP) and in the final presentation. The testing document is for Tuesday and the presentation for Monday. We will have a busy week with: presentation, delivery of the first version of the SVVP and delivery of the second version of the ADD, plus the review of the DDD.

The list of "to do" activities is going shorter an shorter, so...
Hold on there, baby!

Possible Presentations Bangs

In this section we should post all the ideas regarding bangs for the presentation.

The first "brush"

Hi all. As everybody know, yesterday the first brush appeared between two members of this project. I have to say first of all that it is completely solved, "there is no crisis" as politicians say.

In addition to this, I have to say that I find normal these brushes because this project requires a lot of time to work on it. We are working with too much pressure and we are working as a group, we have two meetings per week. So, the environment is not the better. I talked with members of other groups and they don't have meeting, in fact she told me they did only A metting at the beginning of the project. My question is .... is this a group?? Or they are splitting the work and doing it separately?? Because the most I have learnt with this project is to work in group.

I am glad of Blue Team, because each of us has a role in this group. This role is not the Project Manager, Tester .... for example, Ezequiel makes the meeting too much funny, with his jokes and his laugh (Remeber: "Ey chicos pasarme la ESA"). Lucas is the supplier of this group, he brings cupcakes, breads, oranges, bananas .... and so on. Fran is always ready to do things, moreover Fran and Alvaro are always pestering Ezequiel so it is funny. Apart from that, Alvaro brings some lights when the rest does not see the solution.

Again, I am very pride of the work done in this project because other groups follow the ESA standard, while we adapt it. We read the standard and we think if the section is applicable for the project.

For all I have said, and for a lot of things I have not written:

THANK YOU GUYS !!!

Reaching the final steps

Hi everybody,
this is your project manager. This post is only to inform you that the development of the project goes quite well, despite the fact that we have had to face some ugly problems. Fortunately, we were able to overtake disadvantages with our hard work.

Apart from that, may I remind you that this group is based on communication through the members and that any issue or complaint can be exposed freely, when correctly and politely expressed. Because of that, I enforce you to not keeping anything to the insides because it is not desirable and supposes a flaw in the team.

Finally, just emphasizing that I am quite glad with the work and performance of the team, which I have never seen before in previous projects that implied such an amount of people.

Yours, sincerely
Álvaro

-._ Project Manager_.-

Quite a busy week...

but we're gonna make it!!!

Yes, today we worked on the ADD and the DDD. We did, and we did it separating in groups and working quite efficiently (which is not always the case, lol).
Plus we reviewed the SRD, so we can turn in a new version
Plus we started the BPR3, because we are such a great team, that we can do work overhead!

Anyways, although it has been quite a hard week, we are doing a great job!!
Keep up the good work Blue Team!!

Lukillas

PS: By the way, we talked already about the super-mega End-of-project party... The Project Manager is going to pay the beer!

Second Bi-Weekly Progress Report

Hi guys! How is it going? I'm writing just to remind you that next week we have the second BPR delivery, and it would be fine to have it done right before the weekend, because I don't work properly under pressure... Therefore, I consider that It would be nice to keep on the same sections that we did in the previous BPR, because we already know how to fill them...

Would it be possible to arrange a meeting on friday morning in order to join all our parts? Leave your opinions below...

Hugs

A new use to Twitter!

Hi everybody!
Today is Election Day at the US. This means the new president is being elected in this moment. This is quite an historical moment, because the new "boss" of the world is being voted, that hopefully (I doubt it), will save us from the crisis (lol).
All this to say that I found a new use to Twitter

Twitter Vote Report: http://twittervotereport.com/

This tools allows everybody to enter information about the status of the pole they went to vote...
Right now, Twitter is burning!! It's receiving 3 new posts every half-a-second!
You have to check it out!

Lukillas

Keep up the good work!

Hi everybody!
This is just a small post to let you know that I really like how we're doing on this project.
The way we are organizing work, dividing the sections and asigning reviewers is very useful!
Then, we meet up on Tuesdays (and Fridays, unfortunately) to stick everything together and make a last review as a team.
See you at 19h!

Lucas

SQAPv3.0 done and BPR on its way!

Hello!

Today we had a very good meeting. We are getting better and better with respect to the organization and review of documentation. We had also improve the decision making and become a little bit more unified on that aspect.

The goals of the meeting from this morning were finishing the last details of the new SQAP version (remember that we had to produce an entire new document from Monday) and to start working on the BPR. The work for the BPR is now divided (because of the weekend). Each section of it have an author and each author have a designated reviewer. Our next meeting is on Tuesday morning :-)

Go Blue Team!!! ;)

Mondays Are Nasty Too

Yeap. Last Monday was a nasty day too :(
As always, things got pretty ugly, specially when we realized that our SQAP scheme was a little bit different from the others teams :S
But we didn't waste any time. On Tuesday we had an emergency meeting to finish the URD, to modify the corresponding sections of the SQAP and start working on it for Friday.
Keep the hard work Blue Team!! :)

See ya!

I have no surname, I am responsible for the worst document ever and I like blue color...

Yes, I am Ezequiel Nosurname, the Configuration Manager of the team!

But wait a minute, there is a positive thing!!... If we delivered the worst document (SCMP) ever, that means we can do the best improvement ever! And you bet we have done it! No more Configuration disasters in RapidSpot.

The only sad thing is that I will go back to black as my friend Amy :)

By the way, my surname is Quintero :D
Let's keep working hard! Because this keeps getting better!

Love!

A productive meeting.

Hello guys!! How is it going??

This post is only to congratulate you about the meeting we had today. This meeting was successful because we fixed the errors in the SCMP, we sorted the requirements into the differents cathegories and we found new ones.


Great job !!!

Second (and hope last) Delivery Sent

Hi guys, this mail is just to inform you that the second delivery of the SQAP document has just been sent to Juanmi.

Moreover, in Discoweb you can see two folders in that specific section, containing the changes requests performed during today's session, as well as the versions inventory chart.

Nasty Days Get Me Crazy

Hi guys! Well, today we suffered the second impact of the "nasty days"... Nevertheless, we expected so because SCMP included most of the errors that we previously made in CPD and SPO documents... Besides those ones, there's not too much to fix for the second delivery of the SCMP.

The deadline for that new delivery, we should better meet as soon as possible in order to correct all those bugs and send it away...Is there any inconvenience on having our meeting tomorrow morning at 9:00? Sure there will be none...

See you

Yes, We Can

Last Monday I got up at 7 o`clock... I was really tired, and I knew that it was the beginning of an awful week:
- First of all, because there was a horrible weather.
- Next, because there were some misunderstanding in the team which provoked a bad feeling or a bad enviroment.
- Finally, because this week we have to deliver SQAP, the review of SCMP, and we have to work in URD.

All of this, plus Monday, plus 7 o'clock .... I started to look for something that brought me some hope and hapiness. But suddenly, I found something:

It was Juanmi's bible. This bible always sais the truth and it contains an information that made my eyes shined:

FROM NEXT WEEK, THERE ARE ONLY TEN WEEKS TO FINISH THIS PROJECT !!!

This means:
- Ten weeks to prove we are the better team in this project.
- Ten weeks to deliver the better project.
- Ten weeks to get the better mark.

This is not my dream, it is the reality.

We need to work together, because we can do it.

We can build the best project.
We can get the best mark.
We can prove who we are.

If we want....

..... Yes, We Can

Miscommunication and erros in versioning

Hello everyone,
It's the Configuration Manager.

On Sunday is the deadline for the reviewed version of the SPO and the CDP. Since Friday we have been working on these two documents and we encountered our first problems (as a team):
- One member did not follow the agreed version policy, so we found some versions with a small mistake on the format of the name. The good thing is that the error was detected (in an early phase of the project) and we are working on the correct re-versioning.
- The work of two of other member was not taken into account because of miscommunication. At least three members were involved in this miscommunication incident. Now, everything is clear but some members put extra-effort on this deliveries because of it. In concrete, the tasks involved in this incident were: CVs format unification, english version of the gantt images update. They were done (unnecessarily) two times.

Well, we learned from these mistakes and move on. It's not happening again.
See you tomorrow!
:-)

QUALITY CRASH IN CPD AND SPO

Well guys, unfortunately I've had to contact you again tonight due to the feedback we received during the review of this afternoon regarding SPO and CPD.

I think we should consider Juanmi's comments as the inspection phase of our first SQAP meeting. We have a lot of bugs to fix within those two documents before the second delivery dated for next Sunday.

Moreover, we should generate a list of errors found in those documents in order not to repeat them in any other document...

After that, it would be a good idea to have another meeting to review the SCMP document and try to solve (before Juanmi tell us) as many bugs as possible...

Look, tomorrow we have a meeting for the SQAP document development at 9:00 in the morning. Lets try to make those corrections in previous 3 documents as well at the same moment.

What do you think about it?

It's impossible for us to implode because... we already did!

At the instant of the Big Bang, the universe was infinitely dense and unimaginably hot. Cosmologists believe that all forms of matter and energy, as well as space and time itself, were formed at this instant. In that very same instant the 'Blue team' was born, ready to bring the best 'twitter-inspired' application to the universe -guided by the divine forces of Software Engineering- and call it... RapidSpot.

Issues

Hi everybody, this is your Project Manager.

I am very glad with you having started the blog. First of all, let my remind you that SQAP is on development and we should provide a quiet complete version for the meeting tomorrow.

For this reason, I call a meeting for tomorrow, Friday 10th of October, a 10 a.m. in the library. The issues we will deal with are the improvement of the offer deliverable in order to fit the requirements identified this afternoon and the review of SQAP deliverable.

Finally, I would like to thank you all for showing much interest since the early steps of the project and just telling that I pretty confident about our success if we keep on with the hard work.

Yours, sincerely

Álvaro

-._Rapid Spot Project Manager_.-

DETECTED PROBLEM

My Quality Sensor detects that there is somebody that has not posted any comment yet on the blog...

Small presentation

Hey! How is it going?
Well, I just filled in my profil, so everybody can know a little more about me.
I think it's a good idea if we all do this, so people visiting this blog can check a bit of our personal information.
Oh, by the way, I'm the tester of the project!
C u soon!!

DiscoWeb Structure

Hi everybody.

I have created in the folder SE3\RapidSpot. The aim of this folder is to group all the official documents related with this project. Until know we have the official documents with all kind of documents related with the project (CV, diagrams, jpg ...).

So, from now, we will use the RapidSpot as a database with all the official documents (it will be usefull if someday we have an external audit ;-p).

C U tomorrow

SQAP

Hi guys! How is it going? Hope everything is fine... I'm writing just to remind you that next document that has to be delivered is the Software Quality Assurance Plan (SQAP) and its deadline is next Tuesday (10/14/08).

Moreover, I'm the Quality manager of the team and, therefore, the ultimate responsible of the quality stuff of the project, so I will do my best (and even more) to try that everything ends properly (I'm sure you will as well... ; P).

Anyway, I appreciate your opinions regarding any quality aspect of the project and, hence, I would like to have a meeting with you all to discuss how to construct the SQAP document.

What do you think about that? Would it be possible to have the meeting before this weekend? Please leave me your replies below...