William Sommerville Development of the Standard Information Tool System (SITS) for the Tools Group at Detroit Edison
Unit #9: 5/29/06 – 6/4/06
Tasks	Task 1: Test operations with DB (TS14) on test server. Status Completed as of May 29 moving to Task 2 Task 2: Test operations with DB (SS14) on staging server. Status Completed as of May 30 moving to Task 3 Task 3: Test operations with DB (PS14) on staging server. Status Completed as of May 31 moving to Task 4 Task 4: Schedule partial operations with team on staging server. Status Completed as of June 1 moving to Task 5 Task 5: Modify documentation based up results. Status Completed as of June 1 moving to Task 6 Task 6: Conduct team-meeting briefing on project progress (SITS). Status Completed as of June 2 moving to Unit 10
Decisions	[What came up that needed to be addressed? Did you run into a problem or roadblock? How did you solve it? What important decisions did you make this week that impacted your project? What were the key tasks you performed this week? Do not state that there were no key decisions this week.] This week went by much smoother. Testing went well with few challenges that could not be remedied in a short amount of time. Most challenges were small ( mistyped names, permissions on files, etc). The database has the fields that are shown on the screen. Once the modifications were done on TS14, the others (SS14 & PS14) worked out the same way. Team went on-line with SITS working with SS14 DB on schedule. There has been no negative feedback as of yet. Based upon this, the documentation was completed quickly (had been do little by little during the project). At the meeting, everyone provided lots of positive feedback as many raved about the speed of SITS and its ease of use, especially when adding graphics to a field. Based upon this, the stakeholder is requesting the implementation of SITS to be moved up by three days. In addition, a decision was made to have the documentation of SITS on-line and in book form to cover any outages that may occur. The decision to move SITS up by three days has not been made yet and will be reported in unit 10.
Learning	[Answer all questions below.] 1) What helpful feedback did you get in the class (instructor, classmates) and outside the class (user, stakeholder, beneficiary, mentor, expert advisor, others)? What did you learn from this feedback? Everyone raved about the quickness of SITS. Even with all team members on the system, there was no noticable drag on the operations of the DB. Many praised the clarity of the graphics in the DB. The search engine is very fast. 2) What resources did you use this week (e.g., people, money, equipment, systems, or software)? Did you add new resources? What was your learning? The only resourced used this week was the materials used for the docummentation for SITS in book form. 3) What research did you perform this week that was assisting and/or literature based? What was your learning? This week in the learning area was attention to detail week as minor (human bugs) errors played the gotchas as we moved forward. Most of our reference was from the online documentation this week. I can see why it made PC Magazine's Editors Choice. FileMaker Pro On-line documentation
Indicators	[Answer all questions below.] 1) How well did you stick to your project schedule? We are currently on track and a little ahead of schedule. This is based upon the stakeholders request to move the project up by three days. 2) How prepared are you to conclude your project in Unit 10 as required in this course? I am ready. 3) How likely is it that you will need to resort to your contingency plan? None at this time.
Other	[Make any additional comments here. You could provide links here to pages where we could view your work in progress on which to provide feedback.] Snapshot of SITS

Main Page