A New Semester (Week 1)

Welcome to the New Year! In our first week this semester, after a refreshing break, the Road Watch team began with a lecture by Professor Bill McElroy, P.E.. He focused on the topic of credibility, and showed how it was composed of credibility and competence. Then, we began planning out the upcoming semester, by creating a dependency graph and estimating the duration of each major milestone. Our critical path, or longest chronological path through the dependency graph, takes 72 days to complete. It should be noted that this is a hastily constructed draft, and the actual semester may take a massively different course. However, the 72 day critical path should comfortably fit into the spring semester with spare time to make some mistakes. Keep checking back weekly to see how well we stick to this plan.

The draft dependency graph for the semester, which shows the dependencies between various deliverables. It also annotates each deliverable with an approximate duration. Using this information, it is possible to compute that the critical path will take 72 days.

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