<<Title: Fri 2/26/99 1:44 pm>>
- PSE Gerzensee
- Ivan Meier
- 12 Win 3.1 PCs
- will upgrade W 98
- May 99
- 16 MB RAM -> 64
- 1 GB hard disc
- 120 MHZ
- Novell 3.12 Server
- not TCP/IP
- Nilsen Available
- Problem dates
- April 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19
- Busy with Central Bankers Course
- April 19-May 7
<<Title: Mon 3/29/99 11:36 am>>
- PSE week 1
- students want RMI overview
- MR 3
- wants to evaluate C++
- NW 1 2
- MK 4 5
- 4 suggested gathering all questions
- 5 OK
<<Title: Wed 4/14/99 2:21 pm>>
- PSE Arch Presns
- Group 1
- A. Mueller
- not UML?!
- sequence diagram would be better!
- too much on text foils!
- not clear which objects vs classes downloaded
- should only download objects When state is needed
- Group 2
- R. Laeubli
- would like a bit more detailed game Scenario
- Collaboration diagram missing event numbers
- should be objects, not classes
- Parallel games not a requirements!
- Applets or application?
- Group 3
- Fink
- Sounds like a software bus arch.
- Seq. diagram seems wrong
- Who starts Investor, CB?
- How is application launched?
- Nice idea to use state diagram!
- Group 4
- Roman Ambauen
- Class diagram not legible
- Don't optimize network traffic unless you are sure if will make a diff'ce!
- Scenario seems wrong
- How can Game Control (on server) create the Banker?
- Group 5
- Florian Brunner
- Ugly hand drawn figures!
- Still haven't decided how client server communication works
- when, how will they decide?
<<Title: Wed 4/21/99 2:23 pm>>
- PSE Arch reviews
- Group 1 review of 4
- Patrik Schnellmann
- mostly oK docs but missing NW aspects
- Group 2 review of 5
- Oliver Sommer
- Got diagrams very late
- ok but missing startup
- Network aspects not defined.
- Group 3 review of 1
- Raphael Fink
- arch. clear incl. NW aspects
- rationale not always Clear
- e.g. downloading client each session
- Group 4 review of 2
- Roman Ambauen
- Diagrams but no text!
- startup unclear
- Group 5 review of 3
- nothing yet
- Remarks
- Electronic reviews?
- be positive & relevant
- Extract what you can from the review process
- diagrams not enough!
<<Title: Fri 4/23/99 10:37 am>>
- PSE Groups
- PSE1 (Nicolas Wrobel)
- Fri @ 13h30
Thomas Bodenmannn
Thomas Jampen
Cornel Koch
Andreas Müller
Alejandro Ortega
Patrik Schnellmann
- PSE2 (Nicolas Wrobel)
- Fri @ 13h00
Pirmin Amherd
Mischa Beck
Manuel Haag
Daniel Haas
Benjamin Läubli
Oliver Sommer
- PSE3 (Matthias Rieger)
- Christoph Aymon
Raphael Fink
Sebastian Forster
Tobias Roth
Thomas Spreng
Martin Zürcher
- PSE4 (Mathis Kretz)
- Thu @ 16h00; Mon @ 13h00
Roman Ambauen
Nicolas Bonfils
Darko Bukovac
Claude Glauser
Muriel Helmers
Marco Mooser
- PSE5 (Mathis Kretz)
- Tue @ 12h15; Fri @ 11h00
Florian Brunner
Gregor Lütolf
René Kernen
Christine Kieffer
Christian Schweingruber
Erich Strahm
<<Title: Wed 4/28/99 10:40 am>>
- PSE Demos
- Visitors
- Jeffrey Nilsen, Martin Wyss, Nicolas Cuche, Iwan Meier
- Please put Screenshots of GUI on web
- Group 4
- Single machine version
- network in later version
- Java app--not applets
- Missing feedback
- investor logs in or invests
- Waits for next round
- Game logic complete
- but not tested
- Group 3
- network chat demo
- no game logic
- GUI demo
- Banker & Investor GUIs w/o functionality
- Group 1
- network login & GUI
- Java application--not applet
- Clone to finished
- game logic not complete
- Group 5
- Applets & Servelets Solution
- Servelet manages game
- pure http with string Communication
- clients poll servelet
- Game logic separately developed
- not yet integrated
- Group 2
- Only network aspects
- Start or join a game
- One team member having problems
<<Title: Wed 5/12/99 2:34 pm>>
- PSE Install Reviews
- PSE
- Groups must come on time
- Everyone must come!
- 4, 5, 1, 2 partially
- no group 3
- Group 2->4
- nice detailed review protocol
- install oK
- various small to medium errors
- Group 4->1
- install ok
- various GUI errors etc.
- Group 5->2
- install mostly ok
- small doc problems
- small to medium errors
- Group 3 missing!
- Groups 3 & 5 not ready for evaln
- next week
<<Title: Mon 5/17/99 12:29 pm>>
- Points
- for deliverables
- reviews
- Minutes
- attending mtgs
- demerits for missing mtgs
<<Title: Wed 5/19/99 2:20 pm>>
- PSE install reviews
- Group 3->5
- complain about English problems
- demo, not installation
- only 2 members of group 3
<<Title: Wed 5/26/99 2:26 pm>>
- PSE alpha demos
- Group 1
- all working
- Some calculations wrong?
- Missing scenario what happens when foreign reserves hit zero
- not trivial to fix
- need finer grained interactions
- Group 2
- exchange rate
- devalued for wrong reason
- should only happen when all investors send money out
- investors seeing wrong data snapshot
- Missing final data
- CB needs more info
- missing devaluation after spec. attack
- negative unemployment?!
- history of shocks would be useful
- Group 4
- CB needs more info
- data shown not all from right period
- initial values need to be constrained
- Group 5
- Start up problems
- Can't start On all machines
- GUI hard to read on Unix
- designed for Windows
- * Seeing wrong period data?
- Initial Vals should be period zero, not period one
- shocks should be calculated for each period (also the first!)
- Group 3 demo only
- post mortem
- group 4 most promising
- Nicholas Bonfils
- then group 2
- group 1 a bit weak
- not clear about game logic
- Skeptical about group 5
- dependency on http server
- general remarks
- everyone should be informed of important events
- devaluation
- change of CB
<<Title: Wed 6/9/99 2:22 pm>>
- PSE code reviews
- Group 5
- javadoc redundant with comments!
- 2 reviewers
- all in 4 hours
- Group 4
- 3 reviewers
- Var names not clear
- unused vars
- too big methods
- Group 3
- all reviewed
- 100-150 lines per hr
- Group 2
- missing code conventions
- inconsistent comments
- GUI not really 00
- 2500 lines
- 5 reviewers
- 2 hours
- Group 1
- 6 reviewers
- 400 lines each
- 90-120 min.
- out of date comments
- missing Comments
- but all Code readable
- Coding stds inconsistent
- unnecessarily public vars
<<Title: Wed 6/23/99 2:16 pm>>
- PSE feedback
- Group 1
- real client, real project
- self planning
- team decisions challenging
- integration difficult
- need better & closer work with client
- more time & feedback
- feedback on specs missing
- right people at first demo?!
- mix of languages lead to misunderstandings
- RMI too fast
- Never trust a customer
- ESE
- More practice needed on requirements & Scenarios
- Group 2
- work distributed by specialty
- coordination & communication difficult
- learn what you need when you need it
- requirements hard to extract!
- lots of work on deliverables
- home pages useful
- Sysadmin so so
- group logins would be better
- Assistants good, but could be tougher
- Deadlines hard to work with
- Group 3
- too much time following presentations
- programming in Java new
- Severe problems with deadlines
- too little on RMI
- good to have all on net
- Group 4
- too little feedback on deliverables
- not always clear why certain deliverables needed
- how important?
- very quickly lose overview of whole project
- Group 5
- Learning by doing
- hard to set team hierarchy + responsibilities
- Need more help with
- project mgt
- team orgn
- but can only learn in project
- Contact with clients
- more involvement from client would be better
- Make PSE a Blockkurs?!
- difficulties coordinating team members
- 10:5 in favour
- Alt:
- some intensive days
<<Title: Wed 6/23/99 3:19 pm>>
- PSE post mortem
- Deliverables
- Clearly specify up front
- Need official reviews
- by assts
- with feedback
- How to ensure that everyone puts in enough effort?
- Distribute NF Students amongst groups?
- Group size OK
- Group mtgs w. assts
- role of Consultant
- 3 out of 5 worked well
- groups 3 & 5 lacked mgt
- Should appt mgr?
- fix mtg times w/o Consultant
- Project Mgt
- better guidelines
- P2
- work more with Coding Stds
- Barbecue at end