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Project Description
ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND Empact is a social enterprise with a mission to serve and empower the non-profit and social enterprise communities. One of Empact’s core business is to matchmake volunteers together with social enterprise so as to provide social enterprises with quality professional services affordable to Non-Profit organizations (NGOs) and Social Enterpises (SEs).
PROJECT FOCUS
In this project, Team Box.us would be developing a Micro-Volunteering System to automate the process of matching volunteers with the relevant jobs. Upon conception, the system would help Empact to ease their matching process bottleneck and provide a mobile application for championing micro-volunteerism among its volunteers.
MOTIVATION
- Reduce the bottleneck in locating for suitable volunteers.
- Reducing the amount of manual labor needed in the process of each task
- Facilitate better communication among NPO/SE, Empact and Volunteer
GOALS
The project aims to accomplish the following objectives:
- Increase micro-volunteerism take up rates among potential pool of volunteers
- Decrease volunteer wait time after registering as a volunteer with Empact
- Decrease NPO/SE wait time after consulting Empact for resource help
- Increase communication between NPO/SE and volunteers in answering simple questions
- Reduce manual task of matching volunteers
DELIVERABLES
Based on their current Volunteer Matching Process, the client requires:
- The development of a new web system that would be able to allow automated volunteer matching, online management of volunteers and NPO/SE, task management for Empact employees and push notification capability for volunteers.
- Deployment of new web system to ensure that it fits the core business process of Empact
In addition, the team would be required to perform solutioning of the web application, deployment of web application and make suggestions to meeting the business goals highlighted.
BUSINESS OBJECTIVES OF PROJECT
These are the business objectives of Empact:
- Solve current bottleneck in matching process
- Facilitate better communication between the different stakeholders in the matching process
- Reduction of Manual Tasks in Matchin Process
Project Scope
Modules | Module Name | Scope details |
---|---|---|
BASIC FEATURES | ||
Manage Account |
All Users
| |
Manage Profile |
All Users
Empact
NPO
Volunteer
| |
CORE FEATURES | ||
Manage Task |
All Users
Empact
NPO
Volunteer
| |
Manage Task Approval Workflow |
NPO
Empact
| |
Manage Questions |
All Users
NPO
Volunteer/Empact
| |
Manage Search |
All Users
NPO
Volunteer
| |
VALUE-ENHANCING FEATURES | ||
Statistical Reporting |
Empact
| |
Manage Records |
Empact
Volunteer
|
Detailed Scope:
Business Domain
Project Dictionary
Process Terminologies
- Question: Items posted by the NPO/SE that do not require any necessary approval by Empact
- Task: Items posted by the NPO/SE that needs to be executed by the volunteer and is matched using the system.
- Assignment: Items that can be broken down into many tasks and executed by the volunteer.
- Reviewers: Volunteers/Empact staff who ensure that a task has been completed and meets the certain quality standards.
- Feedback(System): Responses given by the volunteers within the system, after completing their task.
System Terminologies
- Question Module: The sub-system that allows different stakeholders to add, delete, update and manage questions within the system.
- Task Module: The sub-system that allows different stakeholders to add, delete, update tasks within the system.
- Task Review: The portion of the Task Module that encompasses the task review process by task reviewers and Empact staff
- Timesheet: The module that links with the Task Module to capture the hours committed by volunteers
- Feedback Form: The module that captures the feedback given by the volunteers
- Volunteer Records: The module that displays an overview and breakdown of all the activities committed by the volunteer
- Search: The functionality that allows users of the system to find items from a given list
- Statistics: The functionality that displays the key indicators of Empact's business performance and goals
- Dashboard: Front-page of the system that captures the key indicators for Empact's daily operations.
- Registration: The functionality that allows users to register to be an Empact volunteer
- Profile: The functionality that captures and displays the key information of the stakeholders within the system
System Description
DESCRIPTION
Team Box.us would be responsible for the design, development and implementation of a web application system and an iOS phone application. The web application would help Empact to perform automated matching of volunteers and provide an integrated management platform for its volunteers, its clients and its staff to handle volunteer matchings.
WEB APPLICATION
The Web Application would consist of the following functionalities: