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Originally Posted by crazykid234
I have a question for any teams that have tried to implement some amount of project management during the six weeks:
Did you find it was worth the time to continually evaluate which portions of the robot were behind schedule and reassign people as needed, or did everyone just work really hard and it got done that way? I had an internship this past year where they used project management extensively and I'd like to try a similar system on 1646, but I worry that with our short schedule it's not worth the effort. Any thoughts?
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Normally I setup a schedule and try to keep up with it. This year we were only a day or two off, but everything turned out fine. Since we were doing a collaboration it was understood what group was working on what and there was no real need to reassign people.
I would say it is definitely worth it so you don't lose perspective on the big picture. Knowing you are behind in week two or three is HUGE!!! At that point you still have a good amount of time to fix it. If you didn't have a schedule you wouldn't know where you were time-wise.
Also, we used google spreadsheets to map out our timeline here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...xrcxlwnbQN-bJA (if you like it, feel free to pilfer, just let me know I'd love to see improvements)
Good luck I DEFINITELY think it helps!!