<<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