Project Update

SO I've been pretty busy with my TDD courswork so the project has taken a back sit for a week. Arrgh panic!!! it's not going to match my gantt chart. oh wait, I never produced one as I thought knowing how long this was going to take me before starting was a silly idea. I've got 2 week sprints / iterations/ etc.. and I'm adding functionality each time, its till early and I gave myself til christmas to have a working prototype minimium viable product is probably a little bit fair to it, is a wireframe on an SQLite database.

Good news though, I've decided on a UI library... and the winner is greendroid! :) I thought I'd head this way when I first saw cyril demo it at Droidcon but for all intents and purposes I was still open to others, the demo app sold me though - think tour de flex, for a UI library.

So where to begin with my recent progress then.

Well, I have a database which i can edit, insert, remove records from. some basic error handling - still not sure about which route to follow with logging or exception handling yet so not too worried that at this moment in time.

UI - I've installed the GDCatalog and am playing around with that now, I had to learn to start using git, which took me a while. but from the basic functionality I've been exposed to I'm sold, after clonging a repo from the command line i figured I'd try eGit for eclipse, nice... Note to self (change 'HOME' environment variable so it stops cloning repos into muser/luke and starts clonging them into that massive new harddrive you got.)

As an aside to anyone who does install git and uses git-bash, did you find yourself just browing the hello-world folder. I liked that a lot. (as an aside...yeah right, who's actually going to read this.)

I have a meeting with my supervisor tomorrow which I'll use to agree what content to have shown off and working by christmas (next week) - I feel a few more late nights on the cards.

Stakeholders analysis

The stakeholders will have expectations of the system.

Perception - the stakeholders understanding of the system and what you are doing.

Constraints, the stakeholder may not be aware of the constraints on the project.

The stakeholders should be told of the expectations from the outset.

Identify the other stakeholders and the impact on them.

Specify the perceptions and the interests of the other stakeholders.

Think of the children.  The stakeholders may not be people,  environment, ecosystem, landscape etc

Identify alternatives to the system. Prepare a set of alternatives.

Execute feasible actions.

Deciding on design specifications.