Group 4 Project
Presentation
Dogan, Jin di, Pan Xiaoyue,
Yang li and Pradeep

Outline
• Introduction
• Project Details
• Meetings
• Project goals
• What’s good and not good
• Time Management
• Conclusion

Introduction
• Information About The Group
• Project Idea

Project Overview
• A social web site for foreign people in
Uppsala
 Homepage space offered by the university
( http://home.student.uu.se/xxya5511/ )
 Drake CMS tool is used to generate the web site.
 PHP 5.0
 Gladius Flat Database

Risks
• Communication and Culture
• Different Backgrounds
• Support for the Tools
• Unforseen
 Uploading the web site

Problems Faced
• Communication Problem
 Chinese English, Indian English and Turkish
English 
• Background and skill difference among group members
• Unstable version of the tool
 Open Source and Free

Lessons Learned
• Being PM is not easy
 Hard to assign equal amount of work
 Group members demands every detail to be precise
• Democracy is a good thing but
 Too much democracy means chaos, PM needs to be fascist. 

Lessons Learned (Cont.)
• Never make important decisions before detailed analysis of your resources.
• Fix as many things as possible at the beginning.
• Regular project management techniques may not fit.

Lessons Learned (Cont 2)
• Using open source and free tools
• # of Members (5) = x+y.
 (x) people always work more than (y) people.
• Hard to synchronize between five people.

If we had started it today
• Decide the topic and tools to use earlier and be more decisive in the beginning
• Use the stable version of the tool and test the tool more before using it
• Start writing the report sooner

Our meetings
• Make major decisions and assign tasks on the meetings
• Everyone signs on the agenda
• Share agenda and other documents on google document and yahoo group.

Goals of our project
• Build a website
• Learn about project management
• Learn from each other.

Build a website
• Start the project by discussing the topic and tools to use for the project.
• Aim is to create a web site about social life for foreigners in Uppsala
• Switch original ideas to Drake CMS
(Content Management System) to meet our needs

Learn about project management
• “Series of actions to achieve a result”
• Project organization
Dogan
Project manager
Yang li
Programmer
Jin Di
Communication manager
Programmer
• Concepts about project
Pan Xiaoyue
Writer
Programmer
Pradeep
Programmer

Learn from each other
• Learn from other members with different backgrounds from different countries.
• Learn from others who master different skills and the way of thinking.
• Experience working in a multi-culture environment. 

What was good
• Different culture, different background
• Give suggestion actively despite of the language barrier
• Support the decision PM finally made
• Communicate through email and share document through Google doc

what did not work well
• Language barrier is the biggest problem
• Google doc help manage document, sometimes not work well
• Different background has different view
• Distribution – time diagram

Time management
• Time diagram – all members
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Time management
• Working schedule of a member time
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Any questions?