By: Miguel Gonzalez (Project Manager & Manufacture)

Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance)

updated: 4/21/2018

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Objective

The objective of this post is to implement organization for the overall schedule of our BiPed project. This schedule is comprehensive and accounts for all tasks that should be completed by the displayed due dates. Using Project Libre, we can list the tasks needed to have a successful project. By using the Gantt chart feature we can see the tasks in a much more comprehensive chart that clearly demonstrates time frames and work periods. All tasks and due dates listed were imported from our class task matrix.

Overall Goal

Of course, like any project, our goal for BiPed robot is to finish every task on time while meeting our initial level one and level two requirements. To succeed, the following Gantt Chart was created with very precise timelines and due dates for procedural tasks that must be met to succeed in completing the BiPed robot on time. When creating the Gantt Chart, we notice three major tasks that are important to the success of the project. These tasks were the general project plan, finalization of the 3D model, and the final blog post. The deadlines for these tasks are March 15^th, April 12, and May 8^th in that order. Because the completion of these tasks is important we made sure to leave time after deadlines for adjustment and revisions. It is allowable to miss a deadline for tasks, but a penalty exists that increases as time passes. To prevent loss of points, additional precautions were put in place. As a group, we set the goal to complete these important tasks and blogs one class day in advance to confirm the completion of tasks within the timeframe.

 

Burndown Chart

At the start of the semester, our team was quick and productive in submitting material and doing research for the project. Initially, the number of tasks was low and amount of time was high thus, we were more productive compared to the actual workload that was given. As the weeks passed our team fell behind as other classes also increased in workload. The increase of work, unfortunately, caused our group to fall behind on assignments that resulted in our group to work overtime during the spring break. This inrush of productivity allowed our team to regain a proper schedule by the end of our spring break.

Now that we are approaching the end of the semester we are tasked to meeting tough deadlines and yet again when looking at the breakdown chart we can see have more stuff to work on compared to the time that we have.  At this time our group has developed a mutual consensus that we need to increase our productivity and work together for the success of our robot.