PERIODIC TEAM PROGRESS REPORT
PROGRESS REPORTS shall be printed and submitted with a memo of
transmittal to the instructor on the deadline. Late reports will
be derated. Report quality goes into leader grade. Team effort
reflected by the report goes to team grade, so no report, no team
grade.
Report content will include as a minimum (except as noted):
Title
Date
Period covered
Team name
Team leader
Summary of the current state of affairs (as of report date):
a Description of project including client, client needs,
design goals, engineering approach, expected form and
function, things that need to be completed or revised,
etc.
b Proportion of project completed (by activity).
c Proportion of time spent: compare total time
accumulated to planned time accumulated.
d Estimate rate of progress. Identify important
unknowns. Include revised Gantt chart
if necessary. (Accurate estimates are important.)
Summary of period.
e Hours spent by hours planned. Do this by person and by
activity. Include marginal sums and totals for all team
members. In a separate table put time spent by team
mentor and observers.
f Significant events: Milestones; unexpected problems;
successes; failures; etc.
g Performance evaluation of each individual.
An example report follows:
------MEMO FORMAT------
[team name on letterhead optional]
November 15, 2525
TO: D. Rice
FROM: N. Nero, PMMA team leader
RE: Progress report, 11/1-11/15, 2525
Attached is the regular progress report for the PMMA team for the
period November 1, 2525 to November 15, 2525.
[heads up and other info or questions is permitted, e.g.:]
Our planning sessions during the last week indicate that we will
need to meet with our client to make measurements before we can
order materials.
New page
PERIODIC PROGRESS REPORT
November 15, 2525
for the period November 1 to November 15, 2525
by
Nanny Nero, Team Leader
PMMA
Project Summary
Our team is designing the BIC (Be-In-Control) Myoelectric Trainer
System. The BIC consists of a preamp/electrode system, a
controller, a communicator board, and a page turner. The
communicator board will also serve as a artist's paint mixing
palette.
These are being designed for our client, Eric, who is a double
above the elbow amputee. He is 9 years old and is continuing his
fourth grade education after his accident. He has difficulty in
classwork involving painting or reading books. These were
favorite activities, and continuing them is important in both his
education and in his rehabilitation. The communicator board and
page turner will serve as incentive devices to help Eric use and
develop his remaining capacity.
The team has completed the selection of incentive devices and is
proceeding to characterize the controller logic requirements.
During the next two weeks we will refine the truth tables and
select between alternative mechanisms needed to operate the
incentive devices.
Total proportion of time spent is 67 out of the estimated 550 or
12% of the work hours allotted for the project. Physical
progress is difficult to estimate because much of our time was
spent in organizational and planning activities. Future reports
will include a table of progress by activity (summary Gantt
chart), but this time it was submitted, by request, under
separate cover. This chart shows that the project is right on
schedule.
Period Summary (11/1/2525 - 11/15/2525)
During this period, the PMMA team spent most of its time doing
planning, literature searches, establishment of goals, and
initial selection of alternatives.
The most significant achievement is that the initial planning has
been completed and the specific goals have been defined.
TIME USE
hours spent by
(hours planned)
|==================|========================================|=========|
| Activity\ member | NN YAM MAY SAM | TOTAL |
|==================|========================================|=========|
| project planning | 10 8 5 5 | 28 |
| | (5) (5) (5) (5) | (20) |
| | | |
| literature search| 0 0 5 10 | 15 |
| | (0) (0) (5) (5) | (10) |
| | | |
| goal/alternative | 5 3 3 3 | 14 |
| selection | (5) (5) (5) (5) | (20) |
| | | |
| report writing | 10 0 0 0 | 10 |
| | (5) (0) (0) (0) | (5) |
|==================|========================================|=========|
| Total | 25 11 13 18 | 67 |
| | (15) (10) (15) (15) | (55) |
|==================|========================================|=========|
Note: Planning includes a 1-hour team meeting with our client and
his therapist.
Total work hours for the period is 67. Total hours spent in group
work is 32. Total hours spent in team activities not related to
team project was 6 (pizza out).
It was not realized how much of the workload would fall to the team
leader. Compensation for this extra effort will be included in
future planning.
Personnel Evaluation
All group members shouldered the load and worked well together.
NN performed beyond expectations, and turned in a stellar periodic
report, but was a bad time planner. Performance rating is
Good.
YAM met expectations. His load was lightened because of a midterm.
Performance: Satisfactory.
MAY met expectations. Performance: Good.
SAM went beyond expectation, and provided a valuable set of
references. Period performance: Excellent.
Appendices
Attach here supplemental materials. These will include a current
Gantt chart and any specially requested special reports or other
material as appropriate.