Week 4 - Challenge Prep

Senior Team Week 4 (9/21-9/27)

This week was both momentous and a letdown. On the one hand we got a lot of details that had been resisting actualization for a while, and we made a lot of progress with our documentation. On the other hand it didn't feel like we made much progress with the demos. During our meetings it felt like we were on fire, outside of our meetings, tasks were easily accomplished and then it felt like I was stumped for what to do next.

For Senior Team projects, each team has to convince their teachers that they have gone far enough with their game to continue to the next stage. It is a combination of test and assignment. If we don't understand and haven't worked on our own project enough then it does not go forward. Each team has to complete all the stages over the course of the semester to be eligible to present at the end of the semester and potentially continue on to the next semester.

We had initially hoped to challenge the first stage of the semester on the 28th but we fell shy of our goal.  Early in the week we determined where each of our prototypes stood and what other materials we needed to complete to successfully challenge. For me it was writing the initial Technical Risk Analysis for the Plant game and the Finnish game. For the group in general it was prepping for the presentation. The TRAs were a good and simple exercise that helped me understand how I was seeing the projects and their risks. As a group however we all got so caught up in our individual tasks that we completely forgot to prep for the presentation. This group failure was a part of why we decided not to challenge the first stage on the 28th.