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Chapter 3
Project Management
3.1
Methodology
We chose the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology to manage our project.
XP is an agile, lightweight methodology that is well suited to a small team
working on a small project, because it dispenses with much of the paperwork that is necessary to manage a large project but which would be an
unnecessary burden on a team as small as ours.
Further information on how the project was managed can be found in
individual reports.
3.2
Schedule
We planned and scheduled the project work using the MrProject tool to
produce Gantt charts. These were constantly refined and updated through
the project. The final Gantt chart is shown in figure 3.1
We initially planned to have four phases of development with one or two
major milestones to mark the end of each phase. (These are not shown on
the diagram because there wasn’t space.)
Phase 1 Define protocol. Choose which aspects of DIFFSERV SLS to support and and an XML format. Define a protocol for the client to
communicate with the NRSE. An inter-NRSE protocol will be defined
later.1
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This was not actually necessary, because we were able to define a single protocol for
both functions.
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