Sphinx Project Progress Report: Week 4

Meeting Attendance:

Monday: Randy, Geoff, Alex, Steve, & Kate

Tuesday: no meeting

Wednesday: Randy, Geoff, & Steve

Thursday: Geoff & Randy

Friday: Randy, Geoff, & Steve

Saturday: Randy, Geoff, & Steve

Deliverables:

Randy: Report to Kelly - Yes

Alex: Meeting Agenda - No

Geoff: Millstone report - Yes

Steve: Current state of GUI screenshot - Yes

Issue 15: Re-scope project, re-define minimum deliverables with Kelly.

Status: We meet with Kelly. They were hoping for a working tool that they could use in their office. A proof-of-concept is not going to be useful for them because they do not intend to contract this out to be developed. Since it doesn’t look like a working application is feasible at this time, Kelly suggested that we shift our focus to developing an Applet that they can post on their web site for visitors to play with to get a better understanding of what BlinkIA does. This does not need to have “save” capabilities, and does not need to have a “Wireframe” component. The map portion does not need to be dynamic, and the depth & breadth of the Outliner can be limited. Kelly will send documentation for us to evaluate to help redefine the overall scope of the project.

Over the week the guys have been thinking about this and they have decided that they would like to continue to develop the desktop version. Geoff and Steve have committed to continuing the project into the summer pending some sort of agreement with Kelly.

Issue 16: Need to set up a regular procedure for setting & evaluating milestones.

Status: Geoff is now supplying milestones in emailable format. We will evaluate and discuss milestones as a team during Fridays meeting. In our meeting with Kate we identified tasks and made estimates. Randy created document reflecting results of meeting.

Issue 18: Time to think about integration again. Need to work Steve's accomplishments into the Milestone Overview.

Issue 19: Team meeting times (revisited). We should plan to work as a team Monday, Wednesday, Friday, & Saturday. Need to identify times that work for everybody.