Today we had a new meeting with our clients, proposing our ideas for the People / Project finder. The meeting went relatively well, with the single side-effect that most features that were discussed during the meeting were nothing more than an endless stream of gold plating, with very little focus on the core features. However, we did learn quite a bit about the things to expect from the clients and the types of activities they would like to extend the project to.
Currently, the system is planned as a pseudo social networking site, geared around projects and people, with the ability to list personal interests, coursework, previous positions / projects,and skills. Projects are able to have specified skillsets they need, the domains they cover, the people they have, a list of resources and links to those resources, description, images, etc. However, as of last meeting, there has been a push to move this more into the project management spectrum of tools, which could be both a plus and a minus.
This Thursday, we are going to need to work on fleshing out the new features and requirements, as well as placing them on a spectrum between the standard idea of meeting place / social network and full project management system. This will require some debate and testing. Also, we will finally begin the planning for the schedule for this sprint, followed by definitions of what we hope to accomplish by the milestone date of Week 8 (July 22).
Hence, what we should be focusing on is as follows:
1. Listing out the features and requirements.
2. Placing the features and requirements on the required spectrum.
3. Determining the schedule for the milestone date of July 22.
4. Begin designing the fundamental architecture for the system.
5. Develop some prototypes of what the features should look like and how they should be presented.
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