In the following document I am going to review the progress and our performance as a group. Each one of us was assigned a role. Dan was the main designer, Ben was the one who would aid the designer and help with anything needed as well as story board and draft ideas. My role was to oversee this as project manager and handle all the paperwork.
At first our group was slightly confused, as to where to start and what to do. This is as expected on the first project. The first thing we did, was attempted to contact our client, we did this by sending him an email asking when would be a good time and place to meet him and take notes about the course and what he would want.
Initially we did not assign roles to each other, as we did not know what to do. We looked at other websites, related to motorcycle maintenance and made note of any good designs we found. We also made note of any bad things we saw and tried to avoid them. Besides that we did not vary out any in depth research, which was one of our downfalls as a group.
Our main downfall, and had the most affect, was our inability to keep to a schedule, which, if avoided could have greatly improved the outcome of the project with a higher quality product. Although we did have roles, they were later assigned to us by Julian, to help us advance.
Besides doing the paperwork, I edited the video myself, however rather than doing it at college with my group to give constant feedback; I edited the video at home, uploaded the final product to YouTube and sent a link to my group to get feedback. Beforehand I also took note of what they wanted in the video. They then gave me feedback on the video and I changed it accordingly.
Over the half term, Dan finished the website and final design. We had given him until the first day back after half term to finish the website, with the exception of the video, which we were to later film that day. Dan did complete the website, to a very good standard, with some impressive page transitions and buttons, with a clean interface.
Ben completed the drafts and storyboards over time, he completed a basic design which he thought was a good idea and we acted on it and improved it. Along with giving constant support to Dan when he needed it, he also offered to help with any paperwork he could complete.
Over this time I had overseen Dan designing the website and giving active feedback as he did things and presented them to me. Although I did not see what he was creating over the half term, the end product was good. Although I should have asked for him to upload it to Dropbox so I was able to view it. I feel that although I did as much paperwork as I could, it was not enough, I think this was due to stress from other projects and not good enough time management, both personally and group time management overall.
