Week 9

This week we have a meeting about task distribution for final report. All the group member was assign to do the task fairly. Each group member must complete the task given base on the gantt chart. Then we need to settle down the development of the project and testing. This is the task that we need to complete and submit to the lecturer.

1. Project Initiation
-Team Formation
-Brainstorming
-Discuss project objectives, scopes, problem
-Requirement analysis
-Methodology discussion
-Development tools
2. Planning & Design
-Design system flow
-Design interface
-Design system details
3. Execution
-By module development
-System Integration
4. Monitoring & Controlling
-Testing
-Deployment
-Maintenance
5. Closing
-Finalizing activities
-Final report

Week 8

Meeting was held to follow up a progress report from each group members and discuss the preparation like finalized and centralized information about project before meeting with lecturer on Thursday, 11.30 a.m – 12 p.m at faculty. All the team members attended the meeting except one of our group members. A discussion among team members was held at starbuck on Wednesday at 10 a.m and finished around 10.40 a.m.

All the team members present their task and also we had discussed about the development stage of our project. For the information, our group project now in stage integrating module of development stage. Our group members now coorperate with each other to try finished our own module and compile all to make one complete software based on what user need.

On Thursday, 19 February 2009, we all was meeting with our lecturer En. Azhar at faculty. We discussed about our progress report at all, which phase of development stage our project now, how to make clients static with their requirements without let them easy to change requirements they discuss with us before this and other than that which related with our project. We also present our project interface to lecturer during the discussion.

Week 7

Meeting was held to discuss the group project’s Gantt chart of Ten10 Corporation. All the team members attended the meeting except of one member. A discussion was held on Thursday, 12 February at One Stop Center. All the team members were required to design a Gantt chart before attend the meeting in order to compare their works among the group members during the meeting to make sure all the important information are stated inside the Gantt chart. A Gantt chart was submitted to lecturer at 10.10am based on the instructions that given by the lecturer. Below are the instructions of the task for Software Project Management:-

1. The Gantt chart is based on the SPM stage.
2. Every stage must be details with the list of related activities.
3. Every activity should have start date and end date.
4. This Gantt chart cover from beginning until the project complete (submission project)
5. Each group free to use any software to develop Gantt chart such as Microsoft project.
6. Submission time 12/2/2009 before 10.26 am.
7. Enjoy your job.

Week 6

Meeting : 7th February 2009, Saturday, 9.15pm to 10.15pm

Meeting was held to discuss and restructure the organization of Ten10 Corporation. One of our team members was fired from the company due of world economy crisis. A discussion was held among all the company leaders and lecturer on Tuesday, 3rd February to solve and discuss about this problem. The decision was made and one member from each team was fired including Ten10Corporation Company. Through the discussion, we had decided to redistribute the task again to each team member because of this restructure of organization.

All the team members need to find the information related to the stages in Software Project Management. All the information will be used to complete the task that given by the lecturer and was submitted before the class ended. Below are the stages in Software Project Management:-

• Initiating - begins with the submission of a Project Proposal or Feasibility Study.
• Planning and design - includes the preparation and approval of a Project Plan.
• Executing - covers the implementation of the approved Project Plan.
• Halted - indicates that project has paused while significant changes are considered or taking place.
• Terminated - this status results when a project is killed at any stage, for whatever reason.
• Closing - includes the formal acceptance of the project and the ending thereof.
• Retired - after completion or termination, a project is retired after submission of a Project Activity Completion Report for all projects and, then, a Post Implementation Review, if required.

The development courseware of learning alphabets and numbers is in progress.

Week 5

No meeting was held during week 5 due to the 1 week holiday for the Chinese New Year celebration. Progress of the development still goes on as we had assigned tasks equally to each member before the holiday. All the members were required to search for information that are relevant and useful in the development process of the courseware.

Week 4

Meeting: 22nd January 2009, Thursday, 9am-10am

A meeting was held before the holiday to discuss about the task distribution of the project that we going to develop which is the courseware of learning alphabets and numbers. Each member of our team was assigned with a module or function that they going to work on, such as alphabet learning module. Through the discussion, we had decided to use Macromedia Flash in the development process of the courseware. All the members were required to search for information that are useful in designing the courseware during the holiday.

Week 3

Meeting : Wednesday, 14th January 2009, 9.15 - 10.15 pm

Meeting was held to discuss again what requirements or functions that we request from Lunar4Studios Corporation. From the discussion we agreed to add new requirements or functions to this software. The updated requirements or functions for the software are as following:-

Functions:-

User

• register
• login
• select layout template
• view or download template
• review application
• view status of application
• print status of application (optional)

Admin

• login
• approve application
• update layout template
• add new layout template
• delete layout template
• edit layout template

Meeting : Friday, 16th January 2009, 9.15 - 10.30 pm

We had a meeting with Lunar4Studios Corporation to discuss about their requirements of the software that we have to develop for them. The courseware that we have to develop is Learning Alphabet and Number. Group members of Lunar4Studios Corporation told us what requirements or functions that they want to have in the courseware. Below are the requirements or functions that they request:-

Menu

• Learning Alphabet - uppercase and lowercase
• Learning Numbering - 1-10
• Exercises/games

Others

• This courseware should come with sound.
• Have pictures or graphics
• Not using striking colors
• Background colors must less than three colors.
• Use more icons

During this meeting we also exchange our requirements with Lunar4Studios Corporation.

Week 2

Meeting : Sunday, 11st January 2009, 9.15 - 10.30 pm

Discussion has been made recently to select the best proposal that were submitted to our company. The proposals are from Lunar4Studios Corporation, Creative 7 Corporation and 6Centueries. We evaluate the proposals based on certain criteria.

First criteria are the presentation of the proposal. In this criterion, we consider the company profile, how the overview of the system is presented and the appendix they enclosed. Lunar4Studios showed how good their company was by stating the award that they have won in the past and their main field of expertise. The overview is stated briefly with a very good suggestion plus a good appendix of Gantt chart presentation. Creative 7 Studios have no distinguished status and have not stated their main field of expertise. Their overview is good in the objectives and scopes of the system. They have an appendix of a Gantt chart but it is not properly presented. 6Centueries also stated its status and its field of expertise but they are more too network-based solution. They presented the overview plus a problem statement well, objectives and scopes and no appendix attached. Somehow, their requirements are not what we want.

Second criteria are the methodology. We are flexible in this criterion because any method that they proposed was acceptable. All three companies stated their methodology briefly in a good way. Lunar4Studios and 6Centueries proposed to use the scrum methodology while Creative 7 Studios proposed to use the Martin’s Four Phase RAD.

Third criteria are the budgets. We prefer budgets that are low. Lunar4Studios and 6Centueries proposed the lowest budgets than Creative 7 Studios. However, 6Centueries presented more detailed from Lunar4Studios.

Fourth criteria are the timeframe. We prefer the date is stated and the development time is not too long. Only Lunar4Studios stated the exact date and the Gantt chart also based on the date that they have stated. However, 6Centueries and Creative 7 Studios only stated the date in the Gantt chart. The development time proposed by 6Centueries and Creative 7 Studios are shorter than the time proposed by Lunar4Studios.

In conclusion, we decided to take Lunar4Studios to do our project with the following justifications:

1- Very good company status and suitable field of expertise

2- Distinguished overview of system which make the system better

3- Low budgets

SOFTWARE APPLICATION

PURPOSE

To help user in choosing the layout design of event venue that is suitable with the activity/event that they want to organize.

SCOPE -

vThis software is developed for anyone who wants to organize event inside UMP.

vThe user: - students

- lecturers

- staffs

- external users

—Data :- gather from Jabatan Pembangunan & Pengurusan Harta (JPPH), UMP.

REQUIREMENTS -

—Language – PHP

—Database – mySQL

—Functions :-

üUser

- register

- login

- select layout template

- review application

- view status of application

üAdmin

- login

- approve application

- update layout template

- add new layout template

- delete layout template

Project Overview

Ten10 Corporation designs software solutions to manage large, medium, and little sized enterprises. It offers its solutions for various markets, such as human resources management systems, accounting systems, shareholders systems, and security systems. We had many meetings to form ideas and solutions for the development of this kind of software. The group, even before its consolidation, planned the methodology of work and development based on the simplification of tasks. The company was established in January 2009 and is located in Kuantan, Pahang. Ten10 Corporation's software products are noted for their high quality, efficiency and ease-of-use. They are sold worldwide through a network of more than 500 dealers. Our motto, “Thinking about Something”, reflects the soul of growing new and good ideas, based on pro-active work and the desire to develop the better solutions.

Organization Chart

1st Week Report

Members of group have been constructed which consisted by 8 members. Group tasks have been given to each group. The group have held meeting twice for the first week.

1st meeting : Friday, 2nd January 2009, 9.30 - 10.30 pm

In the first meeting, we get to together all the group members first before discussing about the first tasks that need to be carried out. However, only 5 members attended in the first meeting. The absentees have gave their reason for their absence. We have some brainstorming session on the first tasks which requires us to act as the software owner (SO) and to present a Request For Quotation (RFQ) or Request For Proposal (RFP) to the software company (SC). A little bit of misunderstanding raised among us regarding the tasks and we decided to consult it with En Adzhar next Monday. At the end of the discussion, each of us were needed to think of the company name and what software application that we will present next Tuesday. Next meeting will be on Satuday, 3rd January 2009.

2nd meeting : Saturday, 3rd January 2009, 5.00 - 6.00 pm

In the second meeting, we resumes the discussion. This meeting was attended by 5 members. The absentees have gave their reason for absence. First, we discussed about the company name. Without further a due, we've decided the name "Ten10". The discussion resumes with the software application that we wanted to present next Tuesday. Three ideas came up which are courseware, event layout suggestion system and inventory system. We've considered their pros and contras and we decided to go on with the event layout suggestion system. We discussed about the objective and scope for the software application which will be our content for the presentation. At the end of the discussion, tasks were delegated to each of us to do. Next meeting will be on Monday, 5th January 2009.

Welcome!

Welcome!

This is our company blog. Our company named Ten10 Corporation. Located in Kuantan, Pahang. Established since January 2009. Our progress on software project that will be carried out will be updated as frequently as possible here to keep you up to date with our work. There's more to be in upcoming posts. Again, thank you for visiting!

Jamilulhakim
Project Manager