Personal Project Log
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Wk 1: 31 March - 6 June 2021
Notes: First week of project. Less work done and mainly organizing meetings to understand te project.
- Filled in as replacement Team-Lead organizing and leading client meeting contacts.
- Clarifying project contact within IBM.
- Scoping out requirements and first contact with project team.
- Participating in internal team discussion for successful project planning.
Wk 2: 7 June - 13 June 2021
Notes: Second week of project: Establishing project scope and concrete requirements. Conducting primarily background research.
- Internal and client meetings to establish project scope and requirements.
- Background research on visualisation tools and strengths/weaknesses.
- Determining/Defining concrete visualisation requirements for VisualMQ.
- Write up of Background research in Visualisation (3D)
Wk3: 14 June - 20 June 2021
Notes: Third week of project: Prototyping phase. Identifying how we wish to build the MVP. Creating prototypes and examples.
- Background on prototyping.
- Creating prototypes and familiarizing self with Unity development
- Generating Initial prototype of visualisation
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Wk4: 21 June 2021 - 26 June
Developing Prototypes Into Minimum Viable Product
- Developing Prototype into Unity.
- Adding ability to filter Queue Managers
- Adding ability to display queue managers and their corresponding queues / Positioning
- Generated draft of internal state reprsesentation
- Connected Rendering script to internal state obtained from the REST API
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Wk5: 27 June 2021 - 4 July
Finalizing MVP
- Working on finalizing Dynamic Rendering
- Starting work on accurate positioning
- Restructuring CodeBase
Wk6 5 July 2021 - 12 July
Finalizing MVP Cont. + Implementing Improvements
- Implemented New Camera Navigation Controls
- Added text above queues indicating names
- Modified internal Queue structure
- Added on-click camera move functionality for Queues focus
- Added on-hover highlight functionality to Queues.
Wk6 12 July 2021 - 18 July
Improvements to MVP
- Working on Dynamic updates to be fixed again again.
- Adding visual apperance affects (Smoke/ETC) to visualisation
- Improvements to Dynamic updates.
Wk7 19 July 2021 - 23 July
Improvements to MVP
- Fixed Dynamic Updates.
- Added animations.
- Dynamic positioning Code during updates
Wk8 23 July 2021 - 26 July
NOTE: SICK
- Channel side-bar click functionality.
- Queue rotation + Position orientation.
- Animation fixes.
Wk9 23 July 2021 - 26 July
Catching up on previous week (sickness)
- Fixing previous work
- Documentation, Report, Deployment.