P7 - D2

We faced many different problems in the task:

Lack of coding skills from team members - There were also long periods of time in the task were team members had nothing to do as a result of lack of skills and time to teach the skills needed, So there were periods of time in which the what to do file had nothing in.finding suitable free webhosting

Registration hosting site failed completely after a week of development - After a while of development the system was at a state of working with the sql database, however shortly after this stage the site we used for registration deleted all of out entries and refused to add new ones. We had to use our extra time to find a free source code for a registration system and make it work with our current system.
Two days before the deadline the hosting company where our site and database was hosted stopped hosting our site for unknown reasons and we didn't have time to make our system work locally.

Lack of time - We simply didn't have enough time to complete the task properly, we had to settle for a basic mockup of the site in the end as a result of the problems above and the lack of time.

Time management - We followed the gantt chart for the first half of the task, then when we faced problems we had to change and adapt our plan.

Teamwork - Team work went well through the task, the research went very well as did communication with the stakeholders. There was also a research folder in which I could post a subject that needs researching and one of the researchers would look it up and post findings in the folders.

From the stand point of project management i think the task was hard to organise and keep everyone busy simply because we didn't all have the skills needed to produce the product or the time needed to get people to the skill level they needed to be. It was hard to ensure that everyone was communicating properly about any work outside of school.

D2

We used the following tools during development:
Dropbox - We used dropbox as our main file sharing system, We kept all project files in our dropbox and it allowed one person to change a file or add a file at home, and it would update for everyone else. It allowed us to communicate effectively and share our work with each over quickly and simply. I think that this software was very effective in the manner that we used it, it kept all of the project files in one place and everyone could access it and do what ever they needed with it. The only problem that we found with the software was that it would sometimes not provide a notification when something was updated which meant that sometimes some of us did not know when something was changed or a task had been added.

Excel - We used Excel to create our gannt chart as well as basic database mock up, It was a good choice of software since all group members have and are familiar with using it. We could have downloaded some specialist software to achieve the same results but we would have had to spend time learning to use it properly, there is also a lot of support available for excel so any problems that we encountered could easily be solved.
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Skype - We used Skype to communicate out of school, Skype was a very effective tool for us to voice call or video chat, however it was hard to get it so that everyone in the team would be on skype at the same time which is the only real problem we faced with it.