DONATE:Laura's P4 Status Report

1)What role(s) have you assumed?

My roles this week were Analyst and Documenter.

2)What tasks have you performed to fulfill responsibilities of your role(s)?

Analyst in the respect that the group and I all had to discuss and come to some decisions about what functionality of this prototype can realistically be working by the end of this iteration. As Documenter, my P4 tasks were to finish the User and Admin manuals. This included adding some portions that were not ready for incorporation during P3, deleting items that will not be completely functional at the end of P4, and structuring the table of content(s) to correspond with the final state of each manual.

3)What work products have you completed?

I have finalized the User and Admin manuals for DONATE. Links to these are located on the DONATE Wike home page. 4)How did you collaborate?

My group collaborated through email and through our group Google site. The three that were still working on code met at the school on Sunday, but I was not required to be there as they could simply send me the resulting GUI information that I needed for the manuals.

5)What infrastructure resources have you used to do your work?

I used Word 07, the UNH VPN to access the staging server, and all the various sites where our project files are.

6)What tasks and work products do you plan to do for ….?

I will be taking the continuation of this class next semester, so hopefully I will be assigned to work on the DONATE project again so that I can see it advance farther. Our accomplishments for this iteration were getting about half the database built in MySQL, which is now on the staging server, (Donate has about 12 tables involved in total) establishing GUI, and coding some of the functionality of the system. The manuals are in perfect shape for the state of the project at this point. User interaction techniques and reporting features will need to be added as they become functional.