Progress reports are a TEAM assignment. They are to submitted by project managers each Wednesday at the beginning of each class as hard copy
The progress reports consist of two files.
First file is a Word document(.doc) explaing the progress team has made that week, the problems they have faced with, the risk items they have to deal with, the immediate plans they developed and any final comments team might have.
Second file is an Excel document(.xls) with three sheets. First sheet, "Progress" explains the progress such as number of tasks(planned vs actual), man hours spent( planned vs actual)-this info can be obtained by viewing your team effort forms (from cs577a main page goto Projects Form and Data/View Weekly Effort Report). Second sheet, "Risks", explains the top risks. Third sheet, "Chart", provides a visual representation of the effort you have put in the other sheets.
When you submit the charts, please provide a hard copy of weekx.doc and weekx.xls with all of the three sheets.
Download an example from last year week09.doc and week09.xls and modify them based on your team information.
NOTE : Please submit progress reports both for Week01 and Week02 in Sep 27, Wednesday. If you didn't have a team in Week01, that's fine, just put zero hours as effort spent or put a special note that you haven't done anything regarding the project.
For your convenience, follow this convention
Week01: Sep 9-Sep 15
Week02: Sep 16-Sep 22
Week03: Sep 23-Sep 29
Week04: Sep 30-Oct 6
Week05: Oct 7-Oct 13
Week06: Oct 14-Oct 20
Week07: Oct 21-Oct 27
Week08: Oct 28-Nov 3
Week09: Nov 4-Nov 10
Week10: Nov 11-Nov 17
Week11: Nov 18-Nov 24
Week12: Nov 25-Dec 1
Week13: Dec 2-Dec 8