Milestone timelines

I am proposing following milestone timelines. Anybody can propose a modification if there is any issue. It will be finalized as soon as Milestone 2 starts.

July '07 - 1 Week - Milestone 1
August '07 - 4 Weeks - Milestone 1,2
September '07 - 4 Weeks - Milestone 2,3
October '07 - 4 Weeks - Milestone 4
November '07 - 4 Weeks - Milestone 4,5
Decmeber '07 - 4 Weeks - Milestone 5
January '08 - 4 Weeks - Milestone 6
February '08 - 4 Weeks - Milestone 7

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Milestone 1

I have proposed the following breakdown for Milestone 1.

Task 1: Technical briefing by the MD of ASD (already completed)

Task 2: Individual feedback from the four team members following the standard communication protocol

Task 3: Prepare a thesis proposal and submit it to the academic supervisor (Sajib bhai) - it's a team assignment

Task 4: Propose a task plan for Milestone 2 - individual assignment to be submitted following the standard communication protocol

First technical meeting @ ASD

Today we met for the first time at the DOHS office. The meeting was very successful. It started with the introduction of Jamil bhai, MD of ASD. He talked about the history, business issues and technical issues of the project. He also shed some light on the technical and business constraints. The session was very comprehensive and rich. He also shared his experience regarding the project. He pointed out his concrete requirements.

Then I took over. I explained the project breakdown (seven milestones), grading policy and communication protocol (weekly reports).

With much interest and intelligent feedbacks, all the four interns participated greatly and individually. They asked about the current prospect of the project, its technical issues and also about the management and coordination of the program. Their feedbacks are of great help while we design or run different program issues.

In general it was a very feedback rich succesful program. It took 1.25 hours to complete.

All the interns are requested to send individual reports to intern-asd-2007@yahoogroups.com with a Cc to Shajib sir's official address after arriving at Sylhet. This report should contain the points we have told in the meeting and the way they have realized the points.

I am expecting to recieve the email by next Friday. Thanks to all for today's successful session.

Received the resumes of four interns

I have received the resume of four interns yesterday. Thanks to them for sending me their details. I handed them all to Jamil bhai last night. Although there were scopes for improvement, in general these four are very good resumes. Infact, they still have one year before improve them and start job hunting.

I am looking forward to see them in the first technical meeting this evening.

Weekly reporting

I am proposing a communication protocol which is expected to be followed throughout the program. Every Thursday, each team member will send two emails to intern-asd-2007@yahoogroups.com with a CC to the official email address of Sajib bhai/sir. The first one is the report of what he has done during the last seven days and the following will be what he is going to do during the next seven days.

So, the first email should contain the text, "Weekly Status: , ", in the subject line. For example, "Weekly Status: Jul 12, 2007". Similarly, the weekly plan email should have something like "Weekly Plan: Jul 12, 2007" in the subject line. Again, it should be sent to intern-asd-2007@yahoogroups.com with a CC to the official email address of Sajib bhai/sir.

Please let me know if anyone have a better idea. We are always happy to improve our processes.

Project grade breakdown

The whole program has been broken down into several milestones to make grading easy. In general major milestones are:

Milestone 1: Project introduction and appreciation

Milestone 2: Finding out the scope of applying and optimizing the standard OCR and pattern matching algorithms in the context of the project

Milestone 3: Test the best fit algorithm for the project

Milestone 4: Finalize the business requirements of the project

Milestone 5: Work on the architectural design of the system

Milestone 6: Work on the implementation outline of the project

Milestone 7: Start working on the implementation

All these seven milestones should be reached to ensure a good grade in the project. I will break down each milestone further. Please let me know if there is any issue.

** All these seven milestones have same weight and will contain 100 points at most. So, the total program has a grand total of 700 points to be maximum. While reporting to Sajib bhai/sir I would always send the number converting it into percentage.

Faisal came to my office

Faisal came to my office on Thursday. One of his team mates had an encounter with a dog and was injured. So, they are yet to finalize a date to sit in Dhaka. I have asked them to submit their resume before coming to Dhaka. I have sent the link of sample resumes today. Now I am looking forward to see how they present themselves. So far, everything is going fine. I am yet to break down the grading policy. Hope to complete it this week.