class stuff 12/21

This week has been interesting for our group. Although some of us were still absent/late to class, I feel that we have made a decent effort at getting our group back on its feet. To start, we have made several revisions to parts 1 through 6 of the storefront project, such as the approximate costs as well as revenue from our business model, which we put into two spreadsheets made by me and Gerald. Chris and David put a lot of effort into creating a sketch for our storefront building. Rizheng and David helped us get information from the Architect as well as about permit fees, which helped me complete the cost spreadsheet and helped Gerald complete the P&L.

However, there are a lot of things our group still needs to improve and work on to help us complete the storefront project. For example, our project leader David has made certain revisions to our business model without explicitly telling us (such as changing it from office based to open workspace based) , which has made it more difficult for us to calculate specific and total costs. There have also been a few instances of our group going off topic, although we are improving our productivity much more than the last few weeks.

My thoughts: for us to be more productive overall, it may help to document our plans for the project, as well as our business model. I will ask David on monday (If he’s there) what our final business model is and what our plans are to finish the project in time to present, and I or someone else will type it up.