Saturday, December 6, 2008

Starbucks

Meeting Details:

To complete the report with final touch-up being done.
Objective of meeting
  • Completion of all unfinished sections
  • Completion of Executive summary
  • Final touch-up of report.

This meeting was essential to ensure that all loose ends to the report were done and all corrections of errors are completed before the submission to our advisor. This meeting would serve to complete our report and tidying up the report. The executive summary was also done in this meeting to complete the report.


My Reflection:

This meeting provided us the opportunity to fine tune the different aspect of the report with amendments being made and improve the quality of the report as a whole. Mistakes that were pointed out by Christine were also amended.

The team did some research on how to come out with an Executive summary as most of us do not have a clear idea on how to come out with an Executive summary. After which, the executive summary was crafted and edit by the team. This is a crucial section in which the team try to ensure that it is as short as possible. We read from the net that the executive summary should be short and sweet, easy to read and comprehend. This is to ensure that it triggers the interest of the reader to read the rest of the report. Thus the team manage to craft a short Executive summary in-which briefly describes what is done in the report.

The team also manage to tie up all the loose ends in the report like for example the literature review. We were able to complete the whole report and ensure that it is ready for a 2nd proof read before submission.

All in all, a fruitful meeting for the team so as to complete the whole report and be ready for submission as predicted.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Meeting with Christine to proof-read first draft..

Meeting details:

This meeting was to get the advisor’s view on our report thus far and understand what are her concerns and expectations for the team FYP report.
Objective of meeting:
  • Identify errors within the FYP report
  • Fine tune the FYP report
  • Understand advisor point view of team’s report first draft

This would help us by identifying what we lack in the first draft and aid us in fine tuning the report. The first draft is still raw and this step of meeting with the advisor would give us an idea of what we are suppose to change and add to beef up the report and also fill in what is missing in the report.

My Reflection:

This meeting was fruitful as it gave us an idea what is expected from us by the advisor and also her opinions on the team report. This was the first draft of our report and the content of the report is bound for changes and amendments.
I feel that the team was efficient in the meeting as the advisor only had one hour for the team and we managed to take down the points that she pointed out and gave her quick suggestions on how to solve the issues. Working together, the team manage to end the meeting with all the objectives met and also had an idea of what amendments should be done after the meeting.
This meeting is a crucial step towards completing the report. This would help us in submitting a report that both the team and the advisor is satisfied with and ensure that we submit a good report for grading.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

E66R Kenneth CMPB

Meeting details

Objective of meeting:
- Check through report to see what is missing
- Complete individual task
- Discuss how conclusion should be done

This meeting was set to provide the team a place to complete their individual task of the report and also to check through the report to see if we miss out any of the sections. The team would also discuss the different elements required in the conclusion for the report. The team decided that it’s going to split the task among the individual sections and complete it based on 2 points per section to be compiled for the conclusion section.

My reflection:

I feel that the meeting was essential for the team-members to complete the different task allocated to them. This is evident in the previous few meetings as well. The team manage to accomplish majority of the report. The meeting in school provided us the platform to ask each other how to do certain things when we are unsure and we were able to help each other in completing their tasks.
This meeting helped us identified what is missing from the report and also gave us the opportunity to device a method to complete the task and split the job up. I feel than having team-mates by your side really aids you in completing the task faster although at times it acts as a form of distraction as well.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Meeting in E66R indiv work 3rd Dec

Meeting Details

Objective of meeting:
- Completing of individual tasks

The meeting was supposed to provide the team a place to complete the tasks assigned to them for the report. This meeting would provide the team time and opportunity to complete their task. It is also a platform for communication and discussion.

My reflection:

I think this meeting shows the importance of working together as we needed to aid each other in doing our work. Just like when i helped Xiu Hui with her part in the report’s literature review section. The section is tasked to the both of us and this is the only few chances that we get to meet up and complete the work. We split our literature review notes to come out with the analysis of it.
This meeting shows the importance of working together as a team this provide us an opportunity to communicate with each other and complete those task that we are suppose to do together and also be able to help each other if they do not know how to move on or when they are stuck.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Meeting november 30

Meeting Details:

Objective of the meeting:
  • Report crafting; individual tasks
  • Discuss on things that are unclear

This meeting serve as a avenue in which the team can sit down and do their allocated tasks and discuss any doubts that each team members have in mind when doing the allocated task. This is also an opportunity for those who are task to share the work with another team member to sit down and work together in a team.


My Reflection:

I think this meeting gave me the opportunity to work with Xiu hui on the Literature review that we are tasked to handle. It was an effective meeting as we were able to help each other understand what the book is talking about and also device a method of summarizing and presenting what is written in the book into the report.

In this meeting, we also decided on how to apply it back to our topic. We decided to link it straight back to the topic right after each section and i feel it is a good idea as it is direct application after the theory.

The meeting was rather effective as a whole for the team and especially for the two of us. We were able to help each other when they need help. Sometimes, when we do things alone, although we do things faster but when we really need some help, it is always better to have a team-mate there to help you.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Meeting november 24

Meeting Details:

Objective of meeting:
  • Report crafting
  • Do individual tasks
  • Discuss on the tasks that are not assigned e.g. Roles & responsibilities

The purpose of the meeting is to come together and complete our individual task together and when faced with a problem, we would be able to discuss it with the other team-mates. This meeting was also a chance for us to discuss on sections that are not allocated to any members of the team. This gave us the opportunity to discuss and complete them.

My Reflection:

I think this meeting is rather fruitful because it reinforced the idea of the structure of the report. I did the basic structure of the report so as to allow my team-mates to have an idea of what is needed. I also included some of the tasks that were not assigned like the Roles & Responsibility section as well as the topic definition plus the strategies section.

We were also able to help Ally with her analysis of the public survey. She met with some problems compiling and we were able to help her solve some of her queries in the meeting. The meeting was rather important for the team as we are starting the report but we are still not 100% sure on what we are suppose to do and this meeting serve as a clarification platform for most of us. This gave us the opportunity to discuss and learn how we are suppose to go about doing the report.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Meeting november 19

Meeting Details:

Objective of meeting:
  • Start report crafting
  • Split report sections
  • Discuss how to come out with report (structure)

This is a crucial meeting before we start writing our report. This is because we would need to come out with the structure of our report and also what we want to include in the report in this meeting. We also decided on how to split the report and who would be in-charge of which section.

My Reflection:

In this meeting, we manage to get the most crucial part of this report writing done which is the structuring and splitting of work. I was handed the introduction and roles and responsibility section. My main role in this report writing is to help out in wherever i am needed and oversee the whole progress of the team. Basically i would be helping Xiu hui with her literature review, Rayson with his result analysis of sponsors interview and tieing up those loose ends.

This meeting helped me in understanding how i am suppose to play my role as a leader in the report and ensure that the team is going to complete the report on time. I would be contributing by helping in any sections. Basically they are incharge of the sections and others are suppose to help as and when help is needed and my main responsibility is to monitor and help out both rayson and Xiu hui.