Jose Alegria - Fab Academy

Project Development

Assignment

wHAT iS THE ASSIGNMENT ABOUT?

Complete your final project tracking your progress.

Development

This is an evaluation of the project status by June 7^th, 2022.

There have been some delays in project development, mainly due to an underestimation of the design times within each of the activities programmed.

				Date	01-26	02-02	02-09	02-16	02-23	03-02	03-09	03-16	03-23	03-30	04-06	04-13	04-20	04-27	05-04	05-11	05-18	05-25	06-01	06-08	06-15
	Process	Time (Weeks)	Status	Week	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Case
	Design	3	Finished	P
				R
	Production	3	Finished	P
				R
	Assembly	1	Finished	P
				R
Moving parts
	Design	4	Finished	P
				R
	Production	2	Finished	P
				R
	Assembly	1	Finished	P
				R
Electronics
	Design	5	Finished	P
				R
	Production	2	In Process	P
				R
	Assembly	2	In Process	P
				R
Step motor and mechanical design (Set for a future development)
	Design	5	In Process	P
				R
	Production	3	Not yet started	P
				R
	Assembly	2	Not yet started	P
				R

By now, the pluviometer design has been successfully completed, including the moving parts which have been the most difficult to achieve because of the different materials I have been using. The electronics production design process is complete, now I am focusing in finishing the production (there have been some changes to the original files) and programming it. Once that is done, the assembly to locate the actual boards in the project is what I am going to be finishing this week.

The extent of the project has been limited to the production of a pluviometer that produces a signal to alert people when it is raining. The development of an automated closing window machine has been delayed for a future iteration because there are many questions to resolve: calculating motor output power, defining the kind of motor needed, design of a system to fix the project to any window or place.

Time optimization techniques:

- To avoid delaying the due date, I started working on different processes at once, this worked by allowing me to divert my resources (time) to a different activity if any issue that could not be resolved immediately appeared in any of the processes.

Conclussions

I have learned to better calculate the time that any activity is going to take or at least to compensate for it in making different processes at once, this will lead to fewer delays in future projects and a better time estimate for deliveries.

Nueval Checklist

- What tasks have been completeded, and what tasks remain?

- What has worked? What has not?

- What questions need to be resolved?

- What will happen when?

- What have you learned?

2022