Course: SEF-2013

Engineering Notebook

Engineer: Sai Karthik

Period: 2013-07-22 to 2013-07-27

Notes: (Record key insights from readings and discussions.)

Reason for risks during the project development. Video: Project management Overview(Time:
00:39)
Important issues are cost, schedule and performance Video: Project management Overview(Time;
02:47)
Wise developers can improve the performance Video: Project management Overview (Time:
13:11)
Life cycle of project and the stakeholders. Should it be linear or parallel? Video Project
management Overview (Time: 23:21)
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What is Success? Video: Project management activities (Time:02:20)
Basic facts during projects Video: Project management activities (Time: 09:10)
Different planning issues Video: Project management activities (Time: 27:54)
Work breakdown structure Video: Project management activities (Time: 40:04)
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The team met for the first time and discussed about the event to be organized and planned how we shall be organizing it
and asked each one to decide their areas of interest.
In the second meeting on Tuesday Afternoon, we decided the roles of each member based on the area their area of
interest. Also asked members interested in cooking to come up with the dishes they are proficient in.
Later on Wednesday, we discussed about the items that can be prepared. Later, the items were shortlisted based on the
budget constraint given to us. Members involved in other areas like Invitation, Ambience, etc. started working on their
respective fields. Also, the project managers and the finance planner and a few members of the team discussed about the
budget and plan for the event within the given budget. Came up with an effective plan of action to organize the event
within the limited budget.
On Thursday Morning, Rekha madam scheduled a discussion with the entire team to discuss about the dos and donts in
organizing the event successfully. Learnt many things which we ignored in our previous discussions and decided to
change the plan of action keeping in mind the tips given by the mentor.
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The team had to again sit together to plan for the event and finally came up with an efficient plan.
Finally, on Friday, the team met to finalize the groceries required. I and the team taking care of the Ambience met to plan
for the entertainment to be provided and also to discuss about how we are going to present ourselves. Having a singer in
our team, I came up with an idea of making Raghavendra sing a couple of songs to entertain the guests.
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Later in the afternoon, members of the team responsible for purchasing groceries went for bringing them; Few members
were taking care of the arrangements at the kitchen. The project managers and the invitation committee were inviting the
guests personally.
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Course: SEF-2013

Engineering Notebook

Engineer: Sai Karthik

Period: 2013-07-22 to 2013-07-27

Deliverable Status
Deliverables

What did
accomplish

you

plan

ENB

Deliver an ENB for the week

to

What
did
accomplish

you

actually

Size

Noted down all the important

points from the videos on
Project Management by Dr.
Lync Carter and also the Key
points of the discussions held
throughout the week

Effort
2 Videos
7
Discussions

Budget Plan

Come up with a budget plan

for the event to be organized.

Developed an effective budget

plan for the event.

30MB

3Discussions

Invitation

Design an invitation for the

guests

Designed an invitation and also

planned to invite them
personally

40MB

2
Discussions.

Lunch on Saturday

Plan for a lunch on Saturday

and make the event successful

Our team successfully arranged

lunch and satisfied our guests

2Hrs

7
Discussions

Feedback Forms

Design a form to take feedback

from the mentors.

Based on the feedback form

designed, we could get a
valuable feedback form our
mentors.

1 Page

2Hrs

Lessons Learned Reflection

Context (e.g. The gap between plan and actual)

Lesson

Project Management

Understood how to manage a project with a large team, given a

number of constraints.

Plan for the Next Week: (These items should appear in the deliverable status for the next week.)
Deliverable

What do you intend to accomplish and why

UML Diagrams

Having understood how to manage a project, we shall now be starting a project form the
next week.

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