Evaluation SCM Practical work 16th May 2006
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The SCM practical work turned out to be a succes. Here are some notes on the
schedule and some remarks from the lecturers and students.

Schedule
 9:00 Start
 9:15 Writing SCM plan started at most groups
10:00 Groups start with digitizing the SCM plan so far
10:10 "You must check in your SCM plan now!" + RequestA
10:45 Most groups have finished Request A
11:10 Three groups have Request B+C now
11:45 Last 2 groups receive Request B+C
11:50 Request D to everyone
12:15 "Please Finish and print your SCM plan"
12:30 Evaluation in Lecture Room
13:00 The end


Remarks by lecturers:
   - SCM plan writing takes too long
   - Request B+C was given late to some groups
   - More emphasis on merging is requested by students
   - Work of one group was not satisfactory
   - Two groups were well-organised and moved ahead
   - Groups that worked in parallel finished more requests
   - Recording of Actual Streaming can be done better 
     (at least one group was confused because they were not aware of the current codeline situation)
   - Some groups lost time on Java programming/Unix commands
   - Commandline or graphical that's the question
   - Performance of graphical (Eclipse) was slow but workable
   - Number of problems with CVS commands was smaller than expected


Some pre-conclusions:
   - Two practice blocks for this work is better
     - One with more CVS stuff + merging
     - One with SCM planning
       (Note: All work related to SCM planning (and requests) should be in one block)
   - Three phases of requests?
     - 1 one warming-up request
     - 2 three parallel requests (create three branches)
     - 3 one merge request to merge the three branches


Remarks by students
   - Preparation of initial SCM plan before the start
   - Much work
   - More merging
   - Practice in the lecture is good
   - CVS learning -> warming-up too simple
   - SCM plan is important
   - Split work on CVS and SCM plan -> separate practice ?
     - week 1 basics of CVS / initial SCM plan
     - week 2 company simulation