Week 1 & 2
- Mike Meng & Shu Sin Chong -
Week 1
20th July, 2016
During the first in class meeting, a formal team contract has been worked out and signed based on common understanding and expectations. After shared contact details, a regular meeting each week on every Tuesday has be agreed on. As for the chosen of topic, the section on kiwi fruit and meat caught our intension.
In order to make our final choice, each member were going to do some brief background research as shown below
These info will be discussed and evaluated to finalise our topic.
22nd July, 2016
22nd July, 2016
The second meeting were booked on the Friday morning in uni library. First of all, each member has shared their discoveries on kiwi fruit or meat section. Their current export status and challenges has been reviewed and compared. Possible products ideas such as kiwifruit lolli, lamb jerky, lamb cookies, printable meat and new market areas like Antarctica has been discussed. Based on the fact, more ideas has been generated on meat section and more members has interest in doing lamb, the decision has been made to have lamb as our specific design topic. And most importantly we are happy and excited to our new project.
To start with, a team email is created to log into WIX for designing our website and documents has been set up on google doc to share sources and drop in any ideas that came up. Finally, we briefly talked about things to do in the next meeting and thing to check with our tutor Tony.
Week 2
26th July, 2016
26th July, 2016
In this meeting, we redesigned the webpage. Whereby we edited the "About" section, introduced the "Research Findings" section, edited the "Weekly blog" section for the time being.
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We improved the navigation of the website by inserting buttons on top and bottom of the pages to access the different pages available. Besides that, we included a summary of goals we are trying to achieve and our details in the the "About"section. Finally, we decided to combine 2 weeks of "Weekly updates" in each page to reduce chances of our website crashing whist containg too much information.
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In the next meeting, we decided to meet Tony and talk about our process with the project and research about some background information for the Website and the project.
27th July, 2016
Today is our second class for this paper and we identified the risks, construct a gantt chart, completed a SIPOC (Supplier, Input, Products, Output and Custmers) diagram and discussed with our mentors about our progress with this projec.
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The risks currently identified are:
- loss of team member
- lack of experties
- loss of records
- short shelf life of the products
- product safety
- financial restriction
- time management
- loss of resources
- loss of sponsors
- technical difficulties
-loss of demands
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Besides that, we constructed a gantt chart for this semester as well as for Stage Gate 1.
As shown in the diagram below.
Gantt Chart for the Semester
Gantt Chart for the Semester
Gantt Chart for the Semester
Gantt Chart for the Stage Gate 1
Furthermore, we created a SIPOC diagram to identify the different categories and the possibilities availablas shown below:
Finally, we met up with our mentor, Tony Mutukumira to discuss about the progress of our projecct. Tony pointed out that this project aims to add value to the current product, lamb and mutton.
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We then decide to do a research on wastage, different products that are currently available, flavouring and preservation method used for lamb as well as possible values of nutrients.These research are divided between us, whereby:
- Cass -> Wastage from lamb slaughterhouse
- Josh -> Flavouring and preservation method used for lamb
- Mike -> Different products that are currently available
- Shu -> Potential nutrients in lamb
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In our next meeting, we will present our findings, narrow down the focus and decide the technical part of the products which need to be researched.
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