Welcome back to the official team blog that follows the journey of five IPPD students and their project for Verifone. The CHAMPS members have rang in the new year and returned from the holidays. Today marks the end of the first week of classes and the team has spent these past few days regrouping and refinding the action plan for the semester. The team created Gantt charts to enhance project management and assigned upcoming tasks to each member. Next week the CHAMPS will meet with Verifone liaisons Darryl Miller and Brian Russell to analyze the current state of the model and discuss the remaining tasks.