Over this weekend I have spent much time attempting to work out how to reach my goal for this month: draft 1 of my thesis completed by May 26. I was recently at ASWEC 2009 with a theme of Agile the New Mainstream. After much thought in the last few days I’ve decided to attempt writing my thesis in an Agile manner. Currently, I’m not sure how this will all look but I am working on it. My template planner looks like this:
My goal is that I will be delivering 2 chapters to my supervisors each week. Obviously, the chapters will be delivered, read and feedback sent back to me, and then I will go through them again. But in this manner I will have a deliverable, probably 2 deliverables each week. This shows me that I am achieving something and keeps my supervisors up to date with what I’m doing. It also means that feedback comes early and if I have missed something or drifted way off task then they catch it before I have strayed too far.
So this is what my first updated Story Board looks like:
