E-mails from Mark Buchner (Project Coordinator) to Murray Saul
Good news. I have recruited a team from PRJ566 that is excited to do this based on my explanation. Details to follow. At this point, it looks like I've been able to marry everyone to a project so there have been no conflicts or competition. But it could still happen if a team or customer backs out.
Details to follow. In any case, we have a motivated team!
Mark
Super... we are ready to go. I am asking the team to set up their webite with their intro and profiles. You will get more info shortly Murray.
Murray,
Let me give you a quick intro to the outstanding and motivted PRJ566 team which was interested in the Orangeville Westminiter United Church "Eyes Wide Open" "Wide Open Windows" project.
They want to help design a purpose-built IT system for revenue generation, transaction processing and resource scheduling.
I'd like to help facilitate an intro meeting between all of us shortly. How about next Monday?
Group Members:
Denny Papagiannidis dpapagia@learn.senecac.on.ca
Iyosias Tessema istessema@learn.senecac.on.ca Geoffrey Mok gmok@learn.senecac.on.ca
Group Leadership:
Denny Papagiannidis will facilitate communication between Mark and the team
Team Functions:
· E-mail, meetings, Google Docs
· Specify the responsibilities of each team member tbd
Group Meetings:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11:40am – 1:30pm
Online meetings on Friday evenings for an hour
Murray the team is owrking on a website which will be useful to profile themselves to the church. I'll pass on the link as soon as its ready (likely, a Wordpress blog site).
I have also passed along to the team the PDF document you provided.
Cheers!
Mark
Wow Murray, you are really going out of your way!!
I have attached a Project Initiation document from last year's PRJ566 teams that was considered to be A+ work by the school.
If we look at the output, it includes:
- use case diagram
- constraints
- class diagram
- db design
- logical design
- project info
Would that sort of output do it for the Westminsiter Church? If not, we should capture the additional design requests.
The purpose of PRJ566 is for the students to design a system for an external client - it takes a while to settle the teams and clients.
The design they do should follow the UML principles that were taught to them in SYS366 & 466 and they must have a Rose Model at the end of the semester which shows their systems use case diagram, their class diagram and all of their sequence diagrams in a Rose Model which they post to the team web site. They must have written use case specifications according to the template that was used in SYS366, SYS466.
I'm not supposed to reteach this but they do have deadlines the deliverables and marks them so that the students do not go too far astray in their design. If the design is not correct, the students fail the course no matter what their marks are on tests and assignments. As well, they have to produce an ERD for their database. It must work as well in order for the students to pass.
The students will work on the project for 8 months so they have to be willing to work together for 2 semesters. They code, test, debug, and implement the system in PRJ666. In order to do this successfully, they must go into PRJ666 with a design that works.
That's where are are at. I'm working to marry up the last few groups (we will be done by next week) and then I will do some instruction and teaching regarding project management... having them use MS Project.
To really answer your question... If the rose models etc that are produced do the job for you and client.. then we should be OK. If there is a communication gap or something is missing then lets do DFD's as well. I don't see an inconsistency. Perhaps a brief DFD lesson to the group will help since this is not something Mary-Lynn taught them.
Cheers!
Mark
