Deliverables Comments (Part 2)

First of all I would like to admire the team’s efforts and I have a good feeling that we will be literally the “TITANS” :)

Now for my comments and tips for the current version of the deliverables, they are as follows:

1. Documents Naming Convention
· From my working experience I found out that it is recommended as best practice to maintain a naming convention for the project documents to simplify the recognition of the document and its content directly from its name.
· Usually we use the following convention ProjectName_DocumentName. Feel free to use it or change it depending on your usage.
· Some examples for this convention are as follows:
i. GradStats_RequirementSpecification.doc
ii. GradStats_ProjectPlan.mpp
iii. GradStats_TimeSheet.xls
iv. GradStats_MinutesOfMeeting_20070809.doc
· As you can see using this convention will simply tell you the content of the document by simply reading the name or even the date as in the minutes of meeting example.

2. Developing Class Diagram in Visio
· We need to develop the class diagram to represent the pages in the system as we agreed upon earlier. Try to figure out all the available pages in the system and start implementing the class diagrams for each one of them.
· This will help us later through the code and prototype development

3. Developing ERD under SQL Server
· The ERD that I found on the blog is more of a class diagram rather than a database ERD. I would advise if we use the SQL Server to create the tables directly and extract the ERD by drawing the tables diagram instead to save time and effort later.

4. Using Table of Contents (TOC) features in MS Word.
· I frankly admired the document structure and the level details written inside this document, and I noticed while going through the pages that we need to add a dynamic TOC that would reflect the document sections and its corresponding pages without the hassle of updating it manually each time a part of the document is change.
· To help you with this I thought I would give you a reference on how to add a TOC to your document which will make your life easier in the future updates inside the document:
i. In case you are using older version of Office: http://malektips.com/word_2003_0002.html
ii. For Office 2007: https://www.uwec.edu/help/Word07/AUTO-toc.htm


I am also attaching the project plan as promised, and I need you to ask the schedule owner to start assigning the tasks to the available resources in order to start working on the project plan.

Once again, good job team and keep up the good work.