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The tutorial in Bristol got me thinking about doing a literature for project planning, since this is an area I could do with learning more about, it is also one area which could be cutting edge. I have just read the notes from the Sterling tutorial which seemed to have covered very different aspects to the Bristol one. Alistair's slides covered this very topic which confirms that that will be one direction for my search. I have heard a lot about agile and xp programming http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/31/extremeprogramming.html and it might be worth reasearching wether there are aspects in this paradigms which I can apply to my more or less one man programming project. I have also found an interesting paper on Scrum http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/scrumpapers.pdf though as yet I don't see where this fits into the agile, xp realms. There appears to be much more here http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/

The other tutor's slides also threw up some interesting ideas with Groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org/ and Grails http://grails.org/, as one possible future extension would be a web based interface may be these additions would be worth looking into.

I was originally thinking of attempting this project in C++ since this is a language that I am more familar with, I haven't used Java since M301 3 years ago, but I use C++ almost daily. Now I am thinking that these ideas might make the pain of using Java worthwhile.

Suddenly this project looks more interesting, but so much larger considering the time limit I have set.