The AutoScheduler

Friday, February 15, 2008

Vision

Problem: students at institutions have to search through a quagmire of course and class schedule information. When the student does find a desired course ,many times they have no idea if the course they need to take will even advance them towards graduation. Lastly, a student has to find the balance between this "right" course and their own personal schedule. All these sources of information reside in different places and referencing them is not seamless.

Vision Statement: an inuitive scheduling tool for the purpose of taking the effort out of scheduling, that will tame course and class schedule data in a manner that is reflective of a student's personal schedule and progress toward degree needs in seamless, intuitive, and integrated tool.

Main Parties Involved:
Individual Developers
Project Managers

Use Cases:
from the student plan builder gather necessary courses for a term
setup calendar for student schedule planning
create view for course/class schedule
establish means of registration

Plan

Inception February 19
Vision
Plans
Business Case
Risks
-- Lifecycle objective Milestone (agreement from dave)

Elaboration February 20
define architecture
get more information for a better plan
Present Prototype (confirm only since its been approved)
-- Life cycle Architecture milestone (if we choose whether to go ahead with the project as planned)

Construction February 21
Design
Code
Test
--Initial Operational Capability (user tries software)

Transition March 15

Risks

Peoplesoft registration role may be on paternity leave
Client may want registration in a non optimal manner (unseamlessly move to peoplesoft registration).

Labels: Technology