THE FIRST MEETING- WE HAVE A CLIENT!!!
December 4, 2007. Jjamppong, our group marked our first meeting. It happened at the Eng'g Library II, Discussion Room. Just today, we finally get to have a confirmation about a demand from one client, Mentors Plus Tutorial Center. Basically, Mr. Aldo Garcia, the owner of the said tutorial center wanted to alter the way they store and manage their records, which is by manually stacking these documents in a filing cabinet. Mr. Garcia wanted to have an on-line record management program that would simplify his work on this matter. Jenny, a group member, upon having a talk with Mr. Garcia, relayed to everybody in Jjamppong some details on the dos and donts, the musts and the nots and a little overview of the said project. Our group evaluates the said offer by considering the length of time and cost that this one semester would limit to us. We also tackle about some matters such as what programming language to use for on-line deployment of the project, possible flaws we may encounter in the future and when will be our formal meeting with the client if ever we decided to grab the offer. We still need to talk our schedules out, the groups' and also the client's, for us to finally set the date. This is actually how we ended the meeting.
THE SECOND MEETING PART 1- CAN WE DO IT? YES OF COURSE!
December 6, 2007. A short yet packed meeting. Since we still have time (before our next class start) we decided to have a short chat about our project. We ended up studying the project at the 2nd Floor Lobby of Eng'g Library II. We set things straight, just for the record. Are we going to do it? Can we do it? JT, one of the members says that it is not that hard to implement a database, however the project as of now is too simple to comply with the cs 192 requirements. Also other members said that they have a slight background in making a simple database. With this, the group finally made a deal to give this project a chance. We would just ask the owner what more does he wanted to include in the project. We decided, for now, to use JavaScript and mySQL, if ever, for the coding part. We supposed to meet the client tomorrow.
SECOND MEETING PART1.1
December 6, 2007. Mood swings, Decision left dangling. Later on the day there is a bit change on the schedule of the formal meeting, and it's NATURAL! We decided not to push through the activity tomorrow since not everyone would be available to come. We realized that as much as possible, everyone must be there before we start on agreeing on some specifications that will be given by the client. Everyone must be involve in the negotiation. Ja, Jap and Ryan, wouldn't be available in Saturdays and JT in Mondays, because of these the meeting was moved to Tuesday, December 11. But again it is tentative.
THIRD MEETING- MAKING THE FIRST STEP.
December 13, 2007. The third meeting, Just got excited. Today is just a short meeting. Even though we haven't meet the client we decided to make a sort of “Use Case Diagram” for the current specifications he gave. Perhaps, we are just being so excited about the making of the diagram for we are carried away by the Bulilit Liga stuff. Anyway, we talked about the main use cases needed for the project while having our breakfast at the new CS canteen before moving to where else? The Engineering Library II, Discussion Room. As of now, we have the basic, or should we say, the very basic picture of the project. We have in our draft of the diagram are the following: the Add, Edit and View functions, The Log-In Interface for security and the two actors, the administrator and the staff. However, again this is temporary for big changes sure awaits us when we finally meet Mr. Garcia.
FOURTH MEETING- WELCOME 2008. THIS IS THE DAY!
January 3, 2008. Vacation is over, we have to move on. We are quite left back by the flow of events of the past year but we are and we must catch up. It is FINAL. We have to have a personal meeting with the client for formality sake and also for elaboration of certain aspects today. But before going to that, Jjamppong group had organize the things we are going to present with the client. We made a short summary of the things the clients wanted to have in the project, some suggestions and questions of ours. We are going to meet in the afternoon and go to mentors plus center as a group to have a face-to-face with Mr. Garcia. A few touches and were set. Gladly, we don't have classes today so we have the whole day to tackle matters.
FIFTH MEETING- JUST MADE OUR FIRST STEP.
January 3, 2008. We rode the jeepney to Katipunan where we are about to meet our client. THIS IS REALLY IS IT. The day everyone has been waiting for, our first personal encounter with the owner of Mentorsplus Center, Mr. Aldo Garcia. The center is located at Golden Crescent Mansion, R. Alvero Street, Katipunan. Sir Aldo made some points on what the functions in the Mentorsplus website are such as adding student and adviser records, updating the finances, and tracking the attendance of the students. We had some arguments which specifications may and may not be done. Forum is requested but due to time constraints, we refused to include it the specifications. After the meeting, we planned to meet again to talk about the work distribution and other stuffs concerning the project.
