Create Stage Journal Entry #1: 22/2/2010

In the past few weeks we've been working on our plan seeing how long we'll take to make the product, what we have to change in our designs and seeing if our designs fit the specification. If we didn't do any of the aforementioned steps we'd have to include what we'd have to do to make them fit the design specification in our plan. Another important step was listing the resources needed for making your product. (i.e. if you needed to make a website, you could use webs.com or piczo.com which are online website design tools).

Basically what you had to do in the plan stage was fix any flaws you found in your current design specification and design and how you would improve on them to hopefully get a 5 or 6 in your eventual created product. This was also done by peer edits when a classmate would walk over your computer screen and spot out some points in your plan that looked vague, weren't done, etc, etc. Based on the peer edits you had to improve your plan and finalize it so it can be ready to look back to when problems were faced in the create.

The problems I faced were not being able to create a proper gantt chart because I do not know how to use Microsoft Excel on Mac. Instead I decided to solve this problem by creating a simple table in which i wrote down the steps and how long each step would take for completion in days with given start dates and end dates.

Here's a screen shot of the said table: