Sunday 26th January 2014 

Without working on plan stage since Thursday, I had a lot of work to do today. First of all, I finished up with my production plan and then moved on to the gannt chart. I found it quite difficult and longer to do it on the computer so I decided to do it by hand. The gannt chart was a very fun part of the plan stage since it was a visual representation and was interesting to make. After the gannt chart, was the exploded drawing which till now was the hardest part of the plan stage. This was our first time doing exploded drawing therefore I had no clue of how to draw one although I knew what It was. I tried many times but it never came out correct in which sometimes it came out small, some of them were to congested etc. I finally learn't how to draw an exploded drawing with the help of my brother since he has done exploded drawing before. He just showed me an example and drew for me a rough sketch, which I used to draw a nice one later on, although I was still stubborn and had that feeling that It wasn't correct.

After doing the exploded drawing, I moved on to the materials list which I also got stuck and confused on but I referred to a sample which made me know what to do. The materials list only took me 15 minutes since I had very few materials and only had to refer to my exploded drawing to fill in the materials list. At 7 in the night, I had began to start on the evaluation of my plan. For the evaluation, I had to comment on the time given for each task, resources, skills and other areas and had to suggest improvements to the plan. Evaluating the plan boosted my confidence as it relieved my stress as I was often worried whether I will be able to finish making my rack in time, the resources I will need and stuff however by evaluating the plan helped me understand and know that If I follow this plan, I will be able to make the rack successfully. I learn't and developed my evaluating skills, planning skills, graphing skills and designing skills. What I have o improve on is to not procrastinate in the following stages especially create stage.The plan stage was finally over and now we were of for create stage which is the most fun and the best stage in Design technology.