Monday, June 22, 2009

Project management discrepencies

In the first few days of putting together this pre-PDR i have observed many problems in the structure and operation of the group. The first problem (and in my opinion the most important) that we encountered is that whenever we (the students) present something to our advisor he changes everything. He doesn't meet with us and discuss it as a group, he just makes revisions and leaves it at that. If I'm not mistaken the advisor and project manager meet and discuss changes, but other than that the rest of the group doesn't have much say so on the group decisions. Another problem is that Meetings are called at 8:30 in the morning and we aren't notified until 15 minutes before the meeting is supposed to be held. There doesn't seem to be much structure or order. I was under the impression that the advisor and project manager would assign task to be completed(that's whats in the contract) but this has happened only once in the 3 days of the project. Another problem that i feel is very important to get resolved is that, we as a group made a list of who would do what task(electronics, flight software, etc.), as a group we concurred and it was understood that the list was acceptable. When we met today the list of of task had been changed completely. I personally don't feel like the person over flight software should be over that task. I have observed in the programming activities that we have done that this person encounters difficulty with the simplest of programs. I will express my concerns as a group then to this individual but he has his mind made up that we know nothing and we can't tell him anything he doesn't already know.




p.s. I already have a program to write data to the EEPROM with a time stamp, and I have a separate program to read data from all or specific addresses in the EEPROM.

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