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=== Objectives ===
 
=== Objectives ===
 
To create data visualisation under a Business Intelligence portal for IDS employees to extract information and make analysis through better visual representation of data.
 
To create data visualisation under a Business Intelligence portal for IDS employees to extract information and make analysis through better visual representation of data.
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== Project Management ==
 
== Project Management ==

Revision as of 15:41, 28 December 2010

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Team B.I.JOE

Roles & Responsibilities

Member(s) Roles Responsibilities
Gary Tan Ying Da Project Manager Liaison, Tester, Schedule tracking, Assistant Programmer for Secondary Visualization
Ng Wei Quan Assistant Project Manager Administrative duties; minutes, Update Wikipedia, Risk mitigation, Lead Programmer for Secondary Visualization
Marcus Yap Interface Designer Front-end design: user interface and graphics; Interface Designer
Isaac Lim Code Developer Lead Programmer for Primary Visualization, Debug and Code Integration
Sim Sing Hong Code Developer Back-end design: Database Engineer, Debugger, Assistant Programmer for Primary Visualization

FYP Supervisor

Zhu Feida, Assistant Professor of Information Systems

Project Overview

Stakeholders

Stakeholder Name Designation Involvement
Sponsor Dr. Kam Tin Seong Practice Associate Professor, School of Information Systems Work with the team to produce project specifications and provide essential data to the team.
Client Nicholas Tan Director IT Application, IDS Group Malaysia Provide company information and data to the team.
Client Paul Fowler CIO, IDS Group Ensure that the project operates under IDS company guidelines.
End Users IDS Group Employees Merchanising and Distribution Services Departments Participate in UAT and provide feedback for functionalities.
End Users Business Principals of IDS Business Partners of IDS Group Participate in UAT and provide feedback for functionalities.
Supervisor Zhu Feida Assistant Professor of Information Systems, SMU Advise the team on project, direct the team along course guidelines.

Background

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IDS provide outsourced services to various clients. They generate analysis reports using their own applications and emailing them daily, weekly and monthly. IDS has selectively shared information on the web but now wishes to develop a portal dashboard that converts online data into analysis reports that provides an immediate picture of the situation and facilitates rapid decision making.

Storyboard

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Objectives

To create data visualisation under a Business Intelligence portal for IDS employees to extract information and make analysis through better visual representation of data.

Project Scope

Features/Functions

Project Management

Metrics and Risk Assessment

Schedule Metric

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School Workload Metric

    • Measuring external commitment and deadlines
    • Workload monitoring through Excel
    • Collected on a weekly basis during school term

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Bug Metric

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Risk Assessment Action Plan

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Usability Impact Assessment

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Project Schedule

Latest MS Project Schedule

Project Milestones

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Current Project Status

  • Finished Phase 1, preparing for Acceptance Presentation

Progress Summary

Phase 1

  • Completed map layout
  • Data retrieval
  • Screen layout
  • Primary visualisation
  • Secondary visualisation
  • Usability assessment

Team Calendar and Important Dates

Team Calendar

Important Dates

  • Start 16 May 10 & 3 Oct 10 (3 months before)
  • Proposal 16 Jun 10 (29 teams) & 3 Nov 10 (2 months before)
  • Acceptance 9 Aug 10 (26 accepted) & 27 Dec 10 (1 week before)
  • Registration 16 Aug 10 & 3 Jan 11 (1st day of class)
  • Midterm 27 Sep 10 & 14 Feb 11 (week 7)
  • Poster 8 Nov 10 & 28 Mar 11 (week 13)
  • Final presentation 22-28 Nov 10 & 11-17 Apr 11 (week 15)
  • Finals 28 Nov 10 & 17 Apr 11

Project Documentation

Project Proposal

Proposal

Project Specifications

As of 26/12/2010

  • Navigation
    • Tool Pad Buttons
    • Zoom Buttons
    • Home Button
    • Map Panning
    • Zoom Slider
  • Map Scale
    • Map Scale Bar
    • Map Provider Bar
  • Data Loading
    • Load Data Point
  • User Interface
    • Menu Bar
  • Info Window
    • Info Tab (Attribute)
    • Info Tab (Image)
  • Dynamic Legend

Team Reflection and Learning Outcomes

As of 26/12/2010

  • Identify key benefits of utilising visual analytics in a company.
  • Identify if a specific requirement is a functional or non-functional requirement.
  • Design and implement a spatial enabled business intelligence application prototype using real-life scenarios.
  • Identify key project implementation risks and propose possible solutions to minimise any risks identified.
  • Monitor project implementation schedule using a Gantt chart (MS Project).
  • Applied search for case studies, sample applications and coding examples from social media such as blogs, user forums.
  • The ability to handle spatially-enabled business data.
  • Understand the end users’ technical requirements.
  • Using development software such as Flex Builder to design RIA-based visual analytics application.
  • Have a better understanding on Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, PHP, Action-script 3 and Database.