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