Yoyo Project Management

In order to keep our team organized, we've utilized multiple different resources:

We created a Gantt Chart to help us keep track of deadlines:

A link to the chart can be found here.

Another resource that we've bee using extensively is a website called Trello.
It's a great website that allows us to delegate different tasks and break them down into different sections, which we find is easier to use than the Gantt chart.



In order to share files, we've been utilizing dropbox. Although it seemed like a good idea initially, it's been a little hard to keep track of versions and stuff between the computers. We think it would be better if we could download the dropbox application to the computers here and automatically save to a folder on our own computer... but we can't do this. Perhaps we should have used the 2.008 user accounts, but we're almost done with all our files anyways so changing at this point would not be worth it.

Lastly, to maintain documents and tables, we've been extensively using Google Docs. It's been working pretty well!

As far as the breakdown of the responsibilities for the project, each person on the team was assigned a part of the yoyo:

• Rings: Sarah and Rohun (Injection Molding)
• Bugs Bunny Insert: Kirsten and Joey (Injection Molding)
• Body: David and Nathan (Injection Molding)
• White disk and Basketball cover: Steven (Thermal Forming)

More specifically, by dividing these parts between these people, each of us was responsible for producing the Solidworks models for these parts, the Solidworks models for the molds, and developing the tool paths for creating these molds.

Additional responsibilities that we have are:

• Gantt Master: Rohun
• Blogger: Kirsten
• Accountability Buddy: Nathan