Project Planning

Planning is everything – or so everybody says – at least everybody who seems to achieve their goals. This is very likely to be true for you this semester as you work your way through your Senior Design Project. Although your project is not large on the scale of projects that we discussed in COMP180, there are several factors working against you that make the demands of your task similarly difficult. First, you are a completely new team working on your first project. You will be learning how to work together, how to use new tools, and perhaps a new programming language. Second, you have many other demands on your time – this is one priority among many and at a different level for each of you. Third, you might have a warped view of time right now – the end of the semester and graduation probably seem a ways away but these next few months are going to go very quickly. So, I recommend that you work very hard together to determine a schedule and a set of role assignments (see Number 2 below) that will help you stay on track.