Week 6: Planning Presentation
Quality Criteria
Leading on from the established outputs, when planning we also need to consider the quality of these outputs. Quality is the bar set so that outputs are at a set standard. So you’re probably wondering how we determine the quality or standard of work?
First of all we define what quality is as this will lead to success and completion of the project. Quality is defined by these 5 SMART principles.
- Specific – Clearly defined and precise
- Measurable – Manage resources, measures for success
- Attainable – Don’t ask for the impossible
- Relevant – Always relate back to the aim of the project
- Time based – Make sure you have enough time to achieve all outputs/aims of the project
Never promise things without considering the costs - Should consider the people doing the work as they will have an input too. The quality criteria should therefore not be written up by one person but rather a team effort where everyone offers their involvement and feedback
Evaluation of these principles at every milestone of the project will save arguments over the lack of quality produced at the end of the project.
Relation Back to 3rdiConstruct
Relating this to our group project Quality criteria is a very important step in our planning process. As a team we have already dealt with many of these principles and addressed them such as being specific. We are clearly defining and even redefining our specific tasks each week making it relevant to the project aim and objectives. Next we have measurable. Aims and objectives must be set in concrete with measures in order to achieve them. Measures We have set up are primarily by all of us is having the correct programs and plugins (Cryengine, 3dsmax, Sketchup) , resources (situation engine example ) and information (BCA Standards, Australian Standards, Construction Books) needed in order to complete the task. This all comes together on our wiki and weakly meeting we attend. We then have been attainable by limiting ourselves to showing two kinds of constriction methods for time based reasoning and so we can achieve the objectives with high quality criteria. We also set attainable goals for each of our skills sets, for example Tim is great in Crysis so there is not point getting him to do research in BCA standards if he is much more efficient with crisis.
Milestones
Here we need to think about how we will divide the project in stages. Most projects are quite large so it needs to be deconstructed into discrete sections where related tasks are bundled. This makes project as a whole more achievable and even quality criteria more easily evaluated. A milestone is what is achieved after completing the bundle of task involved in a stage. Overall milestones serve for two reasons
- Break the project down – so you know when sections are complete
- Manage – Allows you to effectively set time for each stage and got back and evaluate or see where things went wrong.
Relation Back to 3rdiConstruct
With our project Milestones play a vital role in our progress. We have divided our project into four stages so that there is a clear break down on what to do in a set time period. We each once assigned our roles work together to achieve a stage at a time. We are currently piecing together all of our individual work for stage one (Terrain and foundations) so that our first milestone is achieved. This will then allow us to move on to the next stage and to evaluate or see where we have gone wrong so that we can go back and fix things. I have personally learnt this as after group meetings and evaluations and finishing my work I learn that it could be done a different way and go back and change things so that they are correct.
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