Project Journal:


The projects journal documents meetings, decisions, discoveries, demo videos, and anything else important in the progression of your project. (This page will be updated on a weekly).


Activity Description Participants Date
First mentor meeting Our team met with our assigned mentor Jeff Byzek with the purpose of introducing ourselves as well as get some initial advice about the progression of the project. Jeff Byzek, Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 09/03/2021
30 Minutes Meeting Our team met to review the website assignment. Team rules were discussed during the meeting including team behavior, coding style, and git collaboration. Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 09/05/2021
Assignment 1: Web site Project website completed and delivered by Tuesday September 07. Project website instructions can be found: Assignment 1 Instructions. Our project website was designed using the Bootstrap 4 framework and HTML5 to deliver high quality static content with all the project information. The objective is to update this page weekly to facilitate documentation about the progress of the project. Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 09/06/2021
Assignment 2: Project management approach Project management approach completed and delivered by Tuesday September 07. Project management instructions can be found: Assignment 2 Instructions. Our team decided to use Trello for the project management. For more information navigte to the deliverables page and check the project management approach document which contains all the details. Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 09/06/2021
Assignment 3: User Stories User stories completed and delivered Monday September 13. User Stories instructions can be found: Assignment 3 Instructions. Our team created a guidelines of questions before meeting with the client to help with the creation of the user stories. After that, we met with the client to make sure we understood the purpose and the functionality of this application. Finally we created the user stories having in cansideration the client desiderata and also their feedback to some of the questions we ask them. Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 09/13/2021
Assignment 4: Clickable Prorotype Clickable prototype completed and delivered Monday September 20. User Stories instructions can be found: Assignment 4 Instructions. Our team decided to create the clickable prototype in React since this will give us an speed advantage for the actual application given that we are usuing react as our front end framework. We had to put a little more effort in the clickble prototype, but in the long term its going to paid of since we can re-use the code for the actual application. We plan to visit the clients lab on October 07, in which case we plan to get the client feedback from the prototype. Our prototype its being updated on a daily basis. Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 09/20/2021
Assignment 5: Apples Reflection 1 Apple Reflection 1 completed and delivered Monday September 27. Apples Reflection 1 instructions can be found: Assignment 5 Instructions. Our team approach for the apples reflection was to come up with the most important features the client needed in this application. From there we analyzed how this can benefit not only our client but future labs in other universities around the country. Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 09/27/2021
Assignment 6: Application Architecture Application Architecture completed and delivered Sunday October 03. Application Architecture instructions can be found: Assignment 6 Instructions. After analyzing the the client desiderate, we started thinkng about the application architecture and the technical stack of the application. Having in consideration the clients IT constrains we decided to deploy the application in Carolina Cloud Apps. In our deliverablespage you can find all the information in regards to the application technical stack. Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 10/03/2021
Assignment 7: Architecture Diagram Architecture Diagram completed and delivered Sunday October 03. Architecture Diagram instructions can be found: Assignment 7 Instructions. Our team created a detailed architecture diagram that illustrates the Application Architecture. Alice Hayes, Tom Nguyen, Carlos D. Rubido 10/03/2021