Task 2.3

Did have a team in the first week but my team member joined another class. So am group less at the moment. I am coping well though on my own and will liaise with Dave frequently to make sure that I am on the right track all the time. I am in my final semester at present and am doing my last semester of the Industry Project which I can elaborate on in terms of my group and factors that make a team successful in their terms of the group members. I think the main factor in having a successful group is communication. If everyone is at the same level of communication then tasks that have been allocated to you as an individual will be seamlessly easy. Time management is another huge factor surrounding the performance of the group as a whole as they are always deadlines to meet. Reliability and punctuality are other critical factors that impact on the performance of the group. With regards to communication an online collaboration system would be the best way of communicating with team members. With regards to my IE group we use google apps. Its a fantastic web application that has has built in email, word processing, calendaring, chat. It has all the functionality to that a group could ever ask for. Online Collaboration is the way.

Task2.1

Was a bit rusty on normilisation, Last time I did it was in first year for FIT1004. Just had to brush up on some normilisation skills and went ok I guess. The grocery database was indeed a mess. Lots of redundancy and inconsistent data. Was all in all a good experience in doing normilisation again. It is indeed a critical point in design for a database. Used odbc to connect to the db and to pull data over. Was easy... Also used tools in access to visually see the relationships between the entities which helped in finding out foreign keys and primary keys. I think the hardest part for me was going through the data and removing the inconsistencies but again it wasnt difficult just time consuming. Definitely a realistic experience for me as this is what you do in industry but on a larger scale. Was really an intuitive learning experience.