Evaluation of Tools and Processes

Communication

Slack

• We mainly used Slack for in-group communication. At first we had a lackluster experience but once we got used to it, it worked fine.
• Slack's functionalities made us easy to communicate and share amongst ourselves.

Whatsapp

• We mostly used whatsapp for emergencies. When someone had an issue that needed immediate attention,(s)he used Whatsapp group.
• We didn't want to use Whatsapp as our main communication app since most people used Whatsapp for personal affairs.

Hangouts

• We never used Hangouts during this semester as it was not really needed.

Process Management

Github

• Github was our main tool for everything related to project management. We uploaded project documents and meeting notes to wiki page. Everything we did can be found in our repo's wiki page.
• We have some problems related to Issue followups. We still have 15+ issues open, some of them are almost a month old. In the future we need a better system to make sure issues are done within their assigned timeframes.

Evaluation of Processes

Weekly Meetings

• We held a group meeting every week in BM Lounge on Tuesdays. After the first weeks we rarely had all 10 members of our group present in the meetings. In the future we may need a better meeting schedule.
• During the meetings we wasted a lot of time understanding what the assignment of week was about. We need to prepare before the meetings in the future.
• Discussions of our meetings were not really efficient. Instead of just distributing the workload we tried to tackle the issues during the meeting which slowed us down significantly. Most of our meetings lasted much longer than the intended 1 hour. But in time, we had more and more efficient meetings, in terms of time.