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    Latest Updates

    Current Iteration Current Functions under development
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    Cumulative Progress

    Date Discussion Points / Tasks
    21/11/2012 (Wed)

    Team Meeting:

    1. Include timeframe for medium chart
    2. Change the colour of the complex chart
    3. Admin not able to see question
    4. Query box, it should stay there.
    5. Have a quick conversation with Professor Feida, to see if there’s any obvious ways to improve the accuracy.Strategy needed, customised  Bag of words or weightage or both.
    6. X Factor, Complete the remaining functions, Record function is done, but need to show up in the portal.
    31/10/2012 (Wed)

    Team Meeting:

    1. Simple chart, post by user [Top 10 users] [Dropdown list of timing] & top topic discussed
    2. Medium chart, Top category [legal/healthcare/employment], joining 3 or 4 tables together and gathering sentiments. *collate the topics to categories
    3. Complex chart, specify the user, this user said this topic and categories how many times. It will be over a timeframe. Nov 2 - stop exploring the database connection.
    4. Search for questions using different categories.
    5. Listing of the top common FAQs. Question Tag, search question by the tag.
    6. Verify by the admin
    24/10/2012 (Sun)

    Supervisor Meeting:

    1. Biggest priorities were FAQ and Analytics, and reviewers were questioning on why it was not tackled first. The reviewers wanted to know what were out of the box functionality VS what we created.
    2. Reviewers want to know what the motivation behind this project is. Who are HOME’s real customers and their needs?
    3. Showed the plan to supervisor, red portion means need not implement, green means already done, orange means in process.
    4. Implement tooltip/help section to cater to the consistent remaining 20% of testers in survey who have not been addressed.
    5. Also put a timestamp. Try it on local machine and then also try it with multiple concurrent users. Similar to a load analysis, to see the performance.
    21/10/2012 (Sun)

    Client Meeting:

    1. User Testing 2 – 18thNovember 2012
    2. 2 hours, they can use the Q&A platform. [in the afternoon],Wants the same venue
    3. We will need about 20 to 30 participants. More focused group, and final testing
    4. Requested for our project slides with UT results on 18th November.
    5. 25th November they will be flying off to the conference. 27th will be the presentation in Manila


    11/10/2012 (Thu)

    Supervisor Meeting:

    1. Collated UT results, so we are doing the implantation plan.
    2. Performance matrix, in the final need to show performance matrix. How do they find the site’s response speed? Can be a little subjective but it’s the response based on what they feel.
    3. Validate findings from UT#1
    4. Find it with one user then increase the concurrent user. Whether its 1 or 50 sessions it should change so much.
    10/10/2012 (Wed)

    Team Meeting:

    1. Prepared Test Cases
    2. Only 3 members will be present for the UT
    3. 30 concurrent users for the UT signed up
    4. Need to video 2 or 3 people and analyse the result, how much time they spend doing some tasks, actual clicking of a function. We need to observe it personally.


    4/10/2012 (Thu)

    Supervisor Meeting:

    1. Getting permission from SOE GO, for UT1
    2. UI itself has to be simple and focused like ASK.com
    3. Search question
    4. Questions come with tag
    5. Need Text Parsing
    6. Questions need to be saved in database


    3/10/2012 (Wed)

    Team Meeting:

    1. Debrief from Mid-Term and Learning Point from visiting FYP team
    2. Continue with Q&A Management development
    3. User Testing 1 - Manpower, No. of attendees (to date)
    4. Wiki Revamp - First Discussion
    5. Admin: Poster Day (due on 12 Nov)
    25/9/2012 (Tue), 26/9/2012 (Wed)

    Meeting with sponsor:

    1. Issues with existing server.
    2. Issues with User Testing 1.
    3. System Demo
    22/9/2012 (Sat), 24/9/2012 (Mon)

    User Testing with SMU students

    17/9/2012 (Mon)

    Sponsor Meeting: Details

    Next meeting: Team Meeting, Wed (19 Sep).

    16/9/2012 (Sun)

    Client Meeting: Details

    Next meeting: Sponsor Meeting, Mon (17 Sep).

    12/9/2012 (Wed)

    User Testing 1

    1. Scope
      1. Functional testing focusing on web version on MyHOME
      2. Focus on quality of feedback not quantity for the first user testing.
      3. For UT2, volume is important because we want to do regression testing.
        • Put mobile version into UT2 (mobile app and web app) – when more of our features are developed and ready to roll out.
    2. Duration
      1. Each session ½ hour to 45 minutes
    3. Venue
      1. SEIL lab – confirmed
      2. Classroom or Seminar Room close by (backup venue) – tentative SOE CR 5.1
    4. Manpower
      1. Have an escort to bring the volunteer testers from meeting/gathering point to SEIL lab.
      2. Have members mingle with testers after they completed testing to solicit feedback and get them to return for the second user testing.
    5. Incentive
      1. Prof. Shim will sponsor snacks and drinks for the user testing.
      2. Prof. Shim suggest to get the testers to come back for UT2, we offer them coupons after UT1 and if they come back for UT2 with the coupon, we will present them gift cards as a token of appreciation.
    6. Action Items
      1. Survey to be sent out tomorrow or Friday
      2. One member should go through all the test cases and multiply the time taken by 1.5 to estimate duration for each UT session.
      3. Uma and John to check with Mok on SEIL computer configuration - web browser, no of PCs available. 40 is good number – Prof Shim.
      4. Team to work on feedback form to ask testers at the end of the UT session.


    Next meeting: Supervisor/Team Meeting, Fri (14 Sep) pm.

    29/8/2012 (Wed)

    We shared with our sponsor the following:

    1. Feedbacks gathered from our first focus group discussion with H.O.M.E.
      1. Concerns with data privacy: (a) Will the administrator be able to see my messages in MyHOME?; (b) Can I appear "invisible" when I am on MyHOME?; (c) Will my employer be able to find me on MyHOME?
    2. New features which H.O.M.E. would like to have.
    3. Plans for User Testing.


    Our sponsor shared with us the following:

    1. Talk to the end-users more - Focus Group (Filipino ladies) and Dr Wint (IT liaison).
    2. Set "Terms & Conditions" for users' data to ensure data and user privacy in MyHOME.
    3. If the new features are out of scope, share with Ms Tan/H.O.M.E. that we will move it to phase 2.
    4. H.O.M.E. will be our co-sponsor and User Testing provider.
    5. Meet H.O.M.E. on a bi-weekly basis, keeping each session to half-hour to an hour.
    6. Connect with the focus group more to reach out to the other members of H.O.M.E. and invite them to our User Testing
    7. Remember to drop Ms Tan a note to inform her when UT arrangement are ready.


    Next meeting: Team Meeting, Sun (2 Sep) 10am.

    28/8/2012 (Tue)

    We shared with our supervisor the following newly added features on our social networking site (on ut.vivamyhome.com):

    1. Registration and Login
    2. Instant Chat
    3. Fill up survey
    4. Accessing myHOME via Mobile Device (iPad)
    5. Simple Analytic Reporting (with Google Analytics)


    Our supervisor shared his advices and concerns:

    1. Add feature to direct surveys to interested parties based on nationality (filtering).
    2. Automate the creation of surveys
    3. Add more types of question, e.g. multi-choice, multiple response, fill-in-the-box, yes/no, open-ended.
    4. Disable tag cloud if you are not going to use it.
    5. Show working prototype to sponsor and client so they can be updated of the team's progress and provide timely feedbacks.
    6. Explore other analytics apart from Google which provide more robust features.
    7. Do you have an x-factor? Have you factored in the time required to develop it?


    Weekly Supervisor Meeting:

    1. Fixed weekly supervisor meeting with Professor Archan: Thurs, 7pm.

    (Date of next supervisor meeting: 6 Sep, 7pm)


    Next meeting: Team Meeting, Wed (29 Aug) 7pm.

    22/8/2012 (Wed)
    1. Fixed weekly meeting slots: [Admin/Progress Update] Thurs, 7pm and [Development] Sun, 10am.
    2. Confirmed meeting agenda with sponsor & client.
    3. Tidied up Iteration 3 - Social Iteration.
    4. Continue with post-acceptance rectification.


    Next meeting: Team Meeting, Thu (23 Aug) 7pm.

    21/7/2012 (Sat)
    1. We have sent out an email to Ms Tan and Ian to share our development website with Ms Tan (as promised) and seek her help to publise survey 2 on her Facebook groups.
    2. Nik has sent out the meeting minutes for yesterday’s sponsor and team meeting.
    3. Thai has finished some mockup UIs and posted it on Facebook as well as uploaded them onto Dropbox.
    4. We have created a Google Doc to consolidate the points we would like to share with Prof. Archan. Doc link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1clVewbifaeHTcHOYYp5Yal9S10Xaqb7vRcICwQ-H1CA/edit?pli=1
    5. Danny is working on the Account Management scope as well as continuing his research on the speech-to-text-to-translation implementation and will update us again when he finds something new.
    6. Nik has shared Uma’s project schedule planning with the rest of the team and they have provided some feedbacks and pointers. Nik to put them in together Uma’s idea and send out the Excel version of the team’s schedule tomorrow evening (earlier if possible).
    7. We found H.O.M.E. 2 big Facebook groups for Indonesians and Filipinos.


    Next meeting: Meeting with Prof. Archan, next Mon (23 Jul) 8:30pm.

    19/7/2012 (Thu)
    1. Discussion Points with Ms Tan/H.O.M.E: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gQnmIORutdEjS5LJ_3QYt2HhpSrnBTcDSspGYEuJbrk/edit?pli=1
    2. Project Milestone (found in point 4 of the above document)
    3. Project Schedule: Uma has shared how she scheduled the dates for each of our project scope and Nik will implement her idea on MS Project. For Uma's convenience, Nik will convert the schedule into Excel format and email the team the edited project schedule for all to review.


    Next meeting: Meeting with Sponsor (Date: 21 Jul, Time: 10am, Place: Peace Centre); Team Meeting to follow afterwards.

    16/7/2012 (Mon)
    1. Confirmed the functions for mobile app: Thai shared with the rest John's suggestion on the selection criteria for mobile app functions and got the team’s consensus. Apart from Account Management, Survey Management and Analytics Reporting, the rest of the scope will apply to Mobile App Development as well.
    2. Meeting with Ms Tan/H.O.M.E: a) Meeting Agenda confirmed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gQnmIORutdEjS5LJ_3QYt2HhpSrnBTcDSspGYEuJbrk/edit?pli=1; b) Meeting Time & Meeting Point: We may need to meet earlier (say 9:30am) at school or Peace Centre before going to H.O.M.E; c) Uma will try to join up with us at 5pm for our weekend team meeting.
    3. Sharing of MyHome Mock UI (Uma): Uma drew on the whiteboard her sketched layout of the Profile page, Friend List and Friends’ Post and then explained her ideas to us. Please refer to the photos she sent us via WhatsApp to get an idea of her layout. We have reviewed them and Thai (our Usability Analyst) will take it back and update us on his UI when there is progress.
    4. List of survey 2 questions confirmed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oHQdkP0Vb1QQfRJSqdho8W0u35XRF9XBvyqMX_XpnnA/edit
    5. Meeting with Prof. Archan: Confirmed to be next Thu and he has just set the time to 8:30pm
    6. Sharing and Review of Bug Metrics: Nik shared the draft bug metrics template with the team and they are okay with it.
    7. Software Development Methodology: The team confirmed that we will switch over from RUP (phases) to Agile (iterations). We will make the necessary changes over our Project Schedule Review (item below).
    8. Project Schedule Review & Revisit: Nik and Uma will be meeting this Thu evening (19 Jul) in school to review and edit the Project Schedule. From it they will create a presentation form Project Schedule (for Prof. Archan and Prof. Shim) as well as a Project Milestone (for Ms Tan).


    Next meeting: 1) Project Schedule Review & Revisit


    14/7/2012 (Sat)
    1. Reviewed results from Survey 1: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Arxpb1gU867wdEw5TndVcVkzQUphV0JscF9ZVEZzTXc#gid=0
    2. Added questions for Survey 2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oHQdkP0Vb1QQfRJSqdho8W0u35XRF9XBvyqMX_XpnnA/edit
    3. Listed discussion points for second meeting with Bridget/H.O.M.E: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gQnmIORutdEjS5LJ_3QYt2HhpSrnBTcDSspGYEuJbrk/edit
    4. Updated Project Scope on Wiki: https://wiki.smu.edu.sg/is480/IS480_Team_wiki:_2012T1_Team_Glocal_Project_Overview#Scope
    5. Drafted Email to Prof Archan: Email sent out by Thai at around 4:17pm.


    Next meeting: 1) review Project Schedule as a team, 2) confirm functions to put into our mobile app (plus Wiki update), 3) confirm the fields and mock-up for the 2 functions (for acceptance presentation) (a) User Registration and (b) User Profile.