ASSIGNMENT 1: PROJECT PLAN - Simon Fraser University

2010

BUS 338 & CMPT 275

Understanding

Technological Innovation

& Software Innovation

Software Engineering I

Group: 8

ASSIGNMENT 1: PROJECT PLAN

GROUP #8 GRACE KAI, JULIAN DESCHUTTER, KATELYN WEATHERALL, ALFRED DE VERA, JORDON KIPNES

GARY HUI, ANGUS MACDONALD, JOOYONG JEONG, ELVIS ISIC

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Table of Contents

Project Plan .......................................................................................................................................

1.0 Revision History .................................................................................................................... 2

2.0 Project Summary ................................................................................................................... 2

3.0 Project Overview ................................................................................................................... 3

3.1 The Problems .................................................................................................................... 3

3.2 The Solutions ..................................................................................................................... 3

3.3 The Stakeholders ............................................................................................................... 3

3.4 Features of the Aps ............................................................................................................ 3

3.5 Features that the Application will not have ....................................................................... 3

4.0 Project Planning .................................................................................................................... 4

4.1 Progress ............................................................................................................................. 5

4.2 The Website ....................................................................................................................... 5

4.3 Internal Communication Structure .................................................................................... 5

4.4 External Communication Structure ................................................................................... 5

5.0 Project Schedule .................................................................................................................... 6

6.0 Risk Management .................................................................................................................. 7

7.0 Project Organization and Staffing Plan ................................................................................. 8

7.1 Angus MacDonald ............................................................................................................. 8

7.2 Elvis Isic ............................................................................................................................ 8

7.3 Gary Hui ............................................................................................................................ 8

7.4 Jooyong Jeong ................................................................................................................... 8

7.5 Julian DeSchutter ............................................................................................................... 9

7.6 Katelyn Weatherall ............................................................................................................ 9

7.7 Alfred De Vera ................................................................................................................. 9

7.8 Grace Kai ........................................................................................................................... 9

7.9 Jordan Kipnes ................................................................................................................... 9

8.0 Team Meeting Minutes ....................................................................................................... 10

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1.0 Revision History

Table 1.1 – Revision History

Revision Status Revision Date Revised By:

1.0 Created September 23rd, 2010 Angus MacDonald, Gary Hui,

Jooyong Jeong, Elvis Isic

1.1 Content input and

edit

September 26th, 2010 Grace Kai, Alfred De Vera,

Katelyn Weatherall, Jordan Kipnes,

Julian Deschutter,

1.2 Final revision

with both groups

September 28th, 2010 Everyone

2.0 Project Summary

The SFU BizAPP is designed to not only help SFU students Think of the World, but more

importantly Move up in the World. It is intended to provide clarification for prospective and

transfer students interested in applying to the SFU faculty of business, as well as service the

students who are already accepted. Its functions include a business course rating system, a GPA

transfer calculator, SFU business news and events RSS feeds, campus maps, and a variety of

essential tips and tricks for business students such as business faculty contacts and common lingo

used throughout the campuses. This application will be available for download for the iPhone,

the iPad, and the iPod touch.

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3.0 Project Overview

3.1 The Problems:

� Students need to understand what is required to get into and succeed in SFU business, but

do not always have a chance to meet with faculty advisors.

� Students need to understand what a course actually entails when designing their next

semester and planning their degree.

� Students need a one-stop shop for all relevant SFU Business information.

3.2 The Solutions:

� To efficiently self-map business faculty requirements via a GPA calculator and course

outline depending on a student’s concentration.

� To provide course reviews from previous students who have taken the course, which will

give insight into the various aspects of each course. This will allow students to plan their

course schedules and degrees more effectively.

� To create a connection for interested SFU business students, the faculty of business, and

its associations.

3.3 The Stakeholders:

� Students who:

o Want to be more aware of SFU Business events & news.

o Are looking to enter the faculty of business.

o Are planning on enrolling in a business course.

� The SFU Faculty of Business – This application will affect the faculty of business as it

will be an extension of their department. Although it is student content driven, it still

needs to reflect the values and vision of SFU Business. Understanding what these are will

be a key component to the creation of the application.

� Academic Advisors – This application will affect academic advisors as it will be

designed to help students create a pathway in SFU Business. The content that will be in

the application will need to be verified and accepted by academic advisors.

� The Class Professors – Dr. Herbert Tsang & Dr. Jan Kietzmann will be the primary

facilitators for production of this application.

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3.4 Features of the Application:

Essential

� The ability to view and provide feedback on SFU Business courses

o Each course will be ranked on the following criteria:

� Overall difficulty

� Amount of group work

� Writing Intensive

� Relevance to real world

o The following user generated content will be tied to each course:

� Which classes students should and should not take together

� Which campus students should take the class at

� A map of the campuses, highlighting dining areas, study areas, important Business

locations (advising centers, faculty office areas), and parking areas.

� Business GPA Calculator that will let prospective students know how close they are to

entering the program:

o This will tell them what grades they need to get in their remaining courses in

order to reach the required GPA for admission

� A news aggregator that pulls from relevant news feeds

� A list of ongoing and future events:

o Editing access will be provided to student groups (i.e. SIFE)

� A list of important contacts

� A glossary of relevant faculty jargon

� A list of suggested tips and tricks to improve class performance

Conditional

� A course scheduler/planner tied in with the course feedback system

� Social network integration

� Addition of extra dining information to the map, such as menus and hours of operation

� Addition of extra parking information to the map, such as rates and rate comparison

� Grouping option in contacts to help keep class groups organized

� Notifications for classes tied into course scheduler

� Homework planner that notifies students when homework is nearing its due date

Optional

� iClicker emulation

� GPS integration with the map

� GPS-based path finding on maps feature

� Event locations on map

3.5 Features the Application will not include:

� Faculty representation from other SFU faculty and student populations.

� A professor rating system.

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4.0 Project Planning

4.1 Progress:

� Ideas were bounced back and forth about potential features of the application.

� Content for the application has since been decided on and research pertaining to each

feature is under way.

4.2 Website:

Our project website will be hosted by Google Code and regularly maintained. It can be found at

http://code.google.com/p/sfubusinessessentials/. Here project issues will be tracked, backups

maintained and code shared, in addition to hosting copies of all class assignments and other

relevant files.

4.3 Internal Communication Structure:

Communication between group members will be maintained through regular in person meetings,

e-mails and phone calls. Important project documents will be attached in e-mails and hosted on

the Google Code website.

4.4 External Communication Structure:

Frequent meetings will be held and both groups will collaborate whenever necessary. At least

one in person meeting will be held per week. Time for this meeting will be put aside each week.

Table 4.1 – Communication Structure

Type Objective Frequency Audience

Kickoff Meeting Decide on project to execute.

Define objectives and team

goals.

Once • Project team

• All potential

stakeholders

Project Team

Meetings

Review status and progress of

the project and its

deliverables.

Weekly • Project team

Business Faculty

Meeting

Obtain and secure business

faculty support for our

application.

As Needed • Business sponsors

• Project team

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5.0 Project Schedule

Graphic 5.1 – Gantt chart of schedule

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6.0 Risk Management

Table 6.1 – Risks

Risk Severity Management Strategy Similar user function to

current applications

including RateMyProfessor

and other university

applications

Could prevent students with

similar applications to download

another.

Clearly differentiate offering

through variety of options

for students.

CMPT science team unable

to develop specific business

functions identified

Lack of useable functions could

prevent others from

downloading this application.

Develop contingency plan

for alternate application

functions that could be

generated.

Lack of team experience

developing for the

application’s platform

Learning to develop for the new

platform will use up time that

could be spent creating and

improving features.

An early start in addition to

strong communication and

time management skills will

help limit the amount of

time required to learn to

develop for the new

platform.

Lack of access to the

platform and the hardware

necessary to develop for the

platform.

Limits the amount of time team

members can spend developing

the software.

Make hardware available to

those with time to make use

of it. Research into

development methods that

can make use of alternate

hardware.

Hardware Failure Will prevent development and

testing on the failed machine in

addition to data corruption and

loss on the machine. Machine

will then have to be replaced or

repaired before development can

resume.

Create many backups in

varied locations to prevent

data loss. Hardware should

be regularly and properly

maintained to prevent

failure.

Disinterest and lack of

commitment from business

faculty members

Application may lack sufficient

support needed to legitimize its

functional use for prospective

and current students

Approach SFU Business

faculty with messages that

appeal to their business

objectives

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7.0 Project Organization and Staffing Plan

ANGUS MACDONALD

Email: [email protected]

Role(s):QA, Documentation, Development

ELVIS ISIC


Role(s): QA, Project Manager, Documentation,

Development

GARY HUI


Role(s): QA, Documentation, Development

JOOYONG JEONG


Role(s): QA, Documentation, Development

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JULIAN DESCHUTTER


Roles: Concept Generator

KATELYN WEATHERALL


Roles: Organizer, Point Contact

ALFRED DE VERA


Roles: Writer

GRACE KAI


Roles: Formatter, Partial organizer

JORDAN KIPNES


Roles: Editor

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9.0 Team Meeting Minutes

Team 8 Meeting #1 September 19th

2010

1:35

Burnaby CSIL Lab

Meeting called by: Gary Hui Type of meeting: Discussion of Assignment #1

Facilitator: Gary Hui Note taker: Angus MacDonald

Timekeeper: Elvis Isic

Attendees: Elvis Isic, Gary Hui, Angus MacDonald

Absent: Jooyong Jeong

Please read: N/A

Please bring: N/A

Minutes

Agenda item: Introductions/General Discussion Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion:

Semester load and time availability were discussed.

Group decided we were determined to try and win.

Available resources were discussed.

Angus and Elvis are able to provide MACs, iPhone and iPod touch.

Google Docs was decided as the main method of keeping track of work division and to do lists.

Discussed setup for meeting with BUS students in Surrey and arrangement of next meeting.

Decided Jooyong should read meeting minutes, preferably before next class.

Conclusions: We should be able to do some awesome stuff.

Action items Person responsible Deadline

� Get iPod Touch Angus Sep 20th

� Attend meeting with BUS students Angus and Gary Sep 21st

� Download XCode Angus Sep 20th

� Setup group Google Docs

Dropped in favour of github Angus Sep 21

st

� Read meeting minutes Jooyong Sep 20th

� Arranging next meeting Gary DONE

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Agenda item: Communication Structure Discussion Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion: Began setting up a Google Doc spreadsheet for a to do list.

Elvis brought up the possibility of using Google Code.

Spent some time working through the features of Google Code.

Elvis brought up the possibility of github, spent time working through its features.

Elvis contacted a friend who has experience with the various tools, his friend recommended SourceForge.

Spent some time looking through the features of SourceForge.

Decided against SourceForge since it forces us to go Open Source.

Decided we’d go with github.

Found out github isn’t as free as we thought. Decided to go with Google Code.

Discovered that Google Code is open as well.

Switched back to github.

Decided we’d keep everything in passworded .rar files.

Password was decided to be: Sherlock

If this proves to be a problem we decided we would purchase a temporary github subscription for the

duration of the course.

Conclusions: We’re going to use github.


� Create github account and project. Elvis DONE

� Create github account, send Elvis your info. Everyone but Elvis ASAP

Agenda item: Website Creation Discussion Presenter: Angus

Discussion: Angus asked if he could create the website.

Group consented.

Conclusions: Angus will create the website.


� Create website Angus Sep 28th

Agenda item: Assign Group Roles Presenter: Elvis

Discussion: Decided everyone should be involved in QA.

Elvis nominated and voted project manager.

Note taker to be decided on a per meeting basis.

Documentation and Development assigned to everyone.

Documentation and Development will be subdivided as requirements are discovered.

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Conclusions: As above.


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Agenda item: Discussion of next meeting time Presenter: Gary

Discussion: Gary questioned attendees about availability after Wednesday.

In light of availability 11:30AM was decided to be the best time for our next meeting.



� Consult Jooyong Gary DONE

Agenda item: Discussion of next meeting content Presenter: Angus

Discussion: Discuss any new developments

Define requirements for the app

Review project website

Complete Assignment 1

Time permitting:

- Affinity Mapping

- Paper Prototyping



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Other Information

Observers: N/A

Resources: N/A

Special notes: N/A

Team 8 Meeting w/ BUS #1 September 21st 2010

~1:00

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SFU Surrey Library

Meeting called by: Gary Hui Type of meeting: Discussion of App Features

Facilitator: Gary Hui Note taker: Angus MacDonald

Timekeeper: Jooyong Jeong

Attendees: Jooyong Jeong, Gary Hui, Angus MacDonald, Julian DeSchutter, Grace Kai, Katelyn Weatherall

Absent: Elvis Isic, Alfred De Vera, Jordan Kipnes

Please read: N/A

Please bring: N/A

Minutes

Agenda item: Application goals Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion:

Make it easy for non BUS students to find out what they need to do to become BUS students and track their

progress towards that goal.

Develop a course rating feature for BUS courses. Staying away from commentary on professors.

Inclusion of course transfer information from other universities.

Inclusion of features suggested in CMPT 275, such as map, events and news.

Inclusion of a contacts feature.

Conclusions: These are our goals.


� Deliver a prioritized list of contact information BUS Students Soon

Agenda item: BUS GPA Tracker Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion:

User should be able to calculate their CGPA for the nine business courses required to gain entry to the

program.

Should display the CGPA for these courses that are required for successful admittance.



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Agenda item: Contact list Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion: List of important contacts for BUS departments.

Prioritized.



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Agenda item: Maps Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion: Highlight important BUS rooms. Such as advisors/offices.



� Deliver list of important rooms and their locations BUS Students Soon

Agenda item: News/Events Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion: Should be in there, heavy focus on BUS related news only. Possibly the option for general news.


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Agenda item: Course transfer information Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion:

BUS courses only.

Students should be able to find out what courses from other Universities and Colleges are equivalent to SFU

BUS courses.



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Agenda item: Events Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion: Information on what, where and when should be displayed.

Locations should be tied into the Maps feature.



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Agenda item: Course ratings Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion:

Users should be able to rate without registering any account information

Should be able to choose the course no, have the name displayed.

User should then be able to rate overall, difficulty, homework load and relevance.

Users should also be able to leave comments.

Possibly include option to recommend other courses that should be taken concurrently.

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Agenda item: Next meeting and communication scheme Presenter: All Attendees

Discussion:

Send e-mails to everyone, always use Reply All.

A Google Doc for inter-team communication/brainstorming should be setup.

Agreed to arrange our next meeting at Columbia Skytrain station Tuesday the 28th at 1PM.

E-Mail with contact information sent to everyone.



� Setup a Google Doc Katelyn Soon

Team 8 Meeting #2

Sept 23,10

10:30 am

Burnaby Campus CSIL

Meeting called by: Gary Hui Type of meeting: Discussion/Brainstorm/Assignment 1

Facilitator: Elvis Isic Note taker: Gary Hui

Timekeeper: Gary Hui

Attendees: Gary Hui, Angus Macdonald, Elvis Isic, Jooyong

Absent:

Please read:

Please bring:

Minutes

Agenda item: Google Code Presenter: Elvis Isic

Discussion: To use Google Code as our base for the website portion of Assignment 1.

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Conclusions: Calling the project “sfubusinessentials” due to the lowercase and no space requirement for Google Code.

Almost done, just require team member bios.


� Make a Google code website Elvis Isic Sept 28,10

Agenda item: Assignment 1 Presenter: Angus Macdonald

Discussion: To attempt to complete Assignment 1.

Conclusions: Finished most of the Assignment, just need to put together the Gantt Chart into the Project Plan.


� Make the Google Code website. Elvis Isic Sept 28,10

� Make the Project Plan. Everyone Sept 28,10

Agenda item: Gantt Chart Presenter: Gary Hui

Discussion: To create the Gantt Chart requested in Assignment 1.

Conclusions: Finished


� Create Gantt Chart in MS Project 2003 Gary Hui Sept 28,10

Team 8 Meeting with BUS #2 September 28th

2010

12:30

Starbucks Columbia Station

Meeting called by: Gary Hui Type of meeting: Finalize Details of Assignment #1

Facilitator: Alfred De Vera Note taker: Angus MacDonald

Timekeeper: Elvis Isic

Attendees: Elvis Isic, Gary Hui, Angus MacDonald, Jooyong Jeong, Alfred De Vera, Katelyn Weatherall, Grace Kai,

Jordan Kipnes, Julian DeSchutter

Absent: None

Please read: N/A

Please bring: N/A

Minutes

Agenda item: Merge Existing Project Plans Presenter: All Attendees

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Discussion: Make sure each item in the project plans aligns with the team’s overall goals and objectives

Edit merged document for consistency and redundancies

Conclusions: Project Plan unified into one document


� Finish Rough Edit Alfred Sep 28th

� Format paper Grace Sep 28th

� Final edits Katelyn and Alfred Sep 28th

Agenda item: Finish Gantt Chart Presenter: Gary Hui

Discussion: Find scheduled start and end dates for each deliverable for both BUS and CMPT classes

Enter dates into Microsoft Project to create Gantt chart

Documents

ASSIGNMENT 1: PROJECT PLAN - Simon Fraser University