Formal Proposal Approval

I have completed the formal proposal for the project, which is basically the overall project plan, vision, base schedule and list of deliverables. Luckily it was approved, but additional work is needed to get in the proper format for the department. Now, I am starting the requirements process and developing use-cases to support the requirements and vice-versa.

Unfortunately due to funding issues at my work I have started a job-search and have been hit hard by recruiters and interviews this week. This has much to do with the formal proposal not be properly formatted and a bit "rough."

I have had a few offers and narrowed the field down to two companies and will be making the decision about which job to take very soon. Then, hopefully i can concentrate more on the project.

As if anyone doesn’t know this already...recruiters are found somewhere between the Cretans and the troglodytes in the human race. Truly a strange lot.

Motivation

I am a graduate student at CSUF in the Masters in Software Engineering program. As a requirement to completing the program I must either do a research paper or do a development project that according to the department, must be: (a) non-trivial and (b) meaningful to me. Being one who likes both research and development, I have decided to incorporate both into a single project: MetriK – a defect and measurement repository and analytic subsystem.

This blog will be my bastion for all things relating to this project, as well as place to record my thoughts regarding software development.