Editing Final Report 2011 (section)

===Timeline===
The Gantt chart for the project, as of 22/10/11, is available from the thumbnail below. Progress is on schedule for the remaining tasks. The Gantt chart has needed little revision since the [[Stage 2 Progress Report 2011|Stage 2 Progress Report]], with tasks and allocations progressing mostly on schedule. A list of milestones and the dates they were met is shown in the table below the Gantt chart and a discussion follows.

<center>[[File:Final Gantt Chart.png|300px|thumb|center|Gantt chart as at 22/10/11. Click to enlarge!]]</center>
<center>'''Figure 17 - Gantt chart'''</center>


<center>'''Table 4 - Project milestones'''</center>
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
|- style="color:white; background:MidnightBlue; font-weight:bold"
| width="180" | Milestone || width="320" | Description || width="100" | Due|| width="100" | Met|| width="180" | Status

|- style="background:SteelBlue; font-weight:bold; color:white; text-align:center"
| colspan="5" | Cipher and Structural Investigations

|- style="text-align:left" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Analysis of Rubaiyat || Report on Rubaiyat links complete || style="text-align:center" | 08/08/11 || style="text-align:center" | 01/06/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed ahead of schedule

|- style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Cipher Identification || Cipher List compiled || style="text-align:center" | 10/04/11|| style="text-align:center" | 17/03/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed ahead of schedule

|- style="text-align:left" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Cipher Investigation || Cipher List fully investigated || style="text-align:center" | 16/08/11|| style="text-align:center" | 30/08/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed behind schedule

|- style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | (Extension) CipherGUI || Passes final tests || style="text-align:center" | 01/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | 26/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed ahead of schedule

|- style="background:SteelBlue; font-weight:bold; color:white; text-align:center"
| colspan="5" | Web Crawler Development

|- style="text-align:left" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Pattern Matcher module || PM successfully detects patterns and returns results || style="text-align:center" | 08/08/11 || style="text-align:center" | 15/07/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed ahead of schedule

|- style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Web Crawler module || WC self-navigates the web || style="text-align:center" | 08/08/11|| style="text-align:center" | 08/08/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed on schedule

|- style="text-align:left" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | System Integration  || Software retrieves web pages and matches patterns || style="text-align:center" | 17/09/11|| style="text-align:center" | 17/09/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed on schedule

|- style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | (Extension) GUI complete || Able to run searches and view results from GUI|| style="text-align:center" | 25/09/11|| style="text-align:center" | 27/09/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed behind schedule

|- style="background:SteelBlue; font-weight:bold; color:white; text-align:center"
| colspan="5" | Project Management

|- style="text-align:left" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Proposal Seminar || Proposal Seminar presented || style="text-align:center" | 18/03/11 || style="text-align:center" | 18/03/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed on schedule

|- style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Stage 1 Progress Report || S1PR submitted || style="text-align:center" | 01/04/11|| style="text-align:center" | 01/04/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed on schedule

|- style="text-align:left" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Stage 2 Progress Report || S2PR submitted || style="text-align:center" | 03/06/11|| style="text-align:center" | 03/06/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed on schedule

|- style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Final Presentation || Presentation presented with demonstration || style="text-align:center" | 30/09/11|| style="text-align:center" | 30/09/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed on schedule

|- style="text-align:left" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Final Report || Final Report handed over || style="text-align:center" | 21/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | 21/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | Completed on schedule

|- style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Project Exhibition and Poster || Poster complete and Exhibition given || style="text-align:center" | 28/10/11|| style="text-align:center" |28/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | Progress on schedule

|- style="text-align:left" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Project Video || Video complete and uploaded to YouTube || style="text-align:center" | 28/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | 28/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | Progress on schedule

|- style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC" 
| style="color:white; background:SteelBlue" | Handover || Products and results handed over to EEE School || style="text-align:center" | 28/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | 28/10/11|| style="text-align:center" | Progress on schedule
|-
|}

Hard work from the beginning of the project saw initial milestones, including identification of ciphers to investigate and the structural and statistical analysis of the Rubaiyat, completed ahead of schedule.
 
The table indicates that the Cipher Investigation was completed behind schedule. Rather than being a mismanagement or miscalculation of resources and time, this was primarily due to Steven and Patrick deciding to continue identifying and investigating further ciphers than were initially set out in order to make the Cipher Analysis section of the project more comprehensive.

Regarding the Web Crawler development milestones, the Pattern Matcher module shows the milestone was achieved well ahead of schedule. This is accurate; however it should be noted that the initial pattern matching software completed on 15/7/2011 was reviewed and re-designed during the System Integration phase as additional requirements and knowledge about the system were realised. 

The extension to the project objectives, the GUI for the web crawler, did run slightly behind schedule. This was mainly due to unexpected complexities encountered in Java multi-threading as identified in the [[Final Report 2011#System Integration|System Integration]] section of this report. This GUI milestone was still achieved before the demonstration in the Final Seminar.

All project management milestones, including the progress reports and seminars have been met on time with no compromises in quality or any other issues. Progress on achieving all remaining milestones, including the Exhibition, Video and Handover, is on track to meet the schedule set out in the table above.