15/5 Week Five

We had a hard start to this week.  Our meeting on Thursday was frustrating - we still had doubts about our Needs Assessment, and spent a long time discussing the points that we thought needed revision.  Our project and its focus is unique and we really had to think hard about what the project goals are.

After a long and tiring meeting on Thursday, we handed the document to Cheryl, and she wrote some excellent text that clearly expressed what we wanted to say. Cheryl and I worked together to put the finishing touches on the document. Audra created an excellent draft Scope document that needed very little revision. We finally, finally completed our Needs Assessment and Scope Documents! Our client was very happy and impressed with our work, and I think we did a very thorough job on both. We already received signoff on these two documents. We are looking forward to Greg's feedback as well.  Dr. Schell's chapter and two recommended articles were a great addition to our resources, and I think we all have a better understanding of our project goals now.  It was a very long process to get the Needs Assessment completed, but it was worth all of the stress to create a solid foundation for this project.

Dr. Schell and Alissa continue to be great to work with - they are quick to respond to our requests and always providing us with additional information.

Lindsay and Cheryl have been working on the draft versions of the Objectives and Task Analysis, and Amy is working on the draft of the Timeline. We will be finalizing each of these documents on Thursday during our meeting.  Once the objectives and task analysis are complete, we will start discussing the structure/design of our modules and hopefully have some work for our 6200 consultants. We learned at last week's meeting that it's very important for us all to be on the same page about what kind of documents we are trying to produce, and I think we are moving in a great direction now.

To Do:

• Finalize Objectives, Task Analysis and Timeline
  
• Drafts of: User Profile, Hardware/Software, Screen Design, Evaluation Plan
• Discuss assignments for consultants