IS480 Team wiki: 2015T1 Team Big Hero 5 Final Wiki
Project Progress Summary
Project Highlights
- Took 3 days after acceptance test to make changes to our database
- Teammates are doing IDP, so the work load is high
- Change of the requirements: previously only need customer side to be mobile optimized, but now we work on both customer and merchant sides
- Separate merchant and customer interface
- Took 3 weeks to redesign UI after acceptance test
- Completed 3 UATs thus far
- So for 5 merchant tested our app and two of them used our app for real deals
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Stage | Specification | Links |
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Project Management | Meeting Minutes | Meeting Minutes |
Schedule Metrics | Schedule Metrics | |
Bug Metrics | Bug Metrics | |
Analysis | Use cases | Use Case |
System Architecture | Architecture Diagram | |
Testing | User test plan | User testing |
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Reflection
Team Reflection
Individual Reflection
Xia Xueying
Project Manager & Quality Assurance Analyst
As a project manager, I leant how to communicate with different parties and align the requirement with our product delivered. There are lots of function changes since acceptance test. I need to take into account both the sponsor's requirements and balance the workload of our team members'to ensure we are on the track and the quality of the application.
As a QA, I need to test every details of our functions and came up with corner cases to enhance the quality of the application.
Wang Yiyi
UI Developer & Business Analyst
After acceptance test, I have changed the UI design twice and apply CSS, JS skills smoothly to meet sponsor’s requirement. UI elements are familiar to me now, thus I can make major or minor adjustment to achieve user-friendly as well as aesthetic needs. I also realized the feedbacks provided by users are most precious advice for UI developers. We made a lot of improvements according to real users’ feedbacks. Besides, as the business analyst, I need to gather requirements from sponsor and users and translate them into business requirement to help all team members especially coders understand needs clearly.
Gao Yiming
Lead Developer & Technical Analyst
For back-end development, I feel like it's not only about coding but rather considering the real case and usability. It's also important to adopt suggestions from user, so that we take the chance to integrate some new technology tricks like Ajax to make our application more user-friendly. I picked up a lot of JavaScript knowledge along the way as well, and it's necessary to communicate with front-end developer to make sure all the error messages are displayed correctly.
Cao Xinge
Backend Developer & UI Developer
From the acceptance till now, as my role changed from Back-end Developer & PM Assistant to Back-end Developer and Front-end Developer, I learnt a lot about the UI design and developing. I am more familiar with CSS and JavaScript now. As I focus more on the mobile optimization, I learn more about the how to make our web application response effectively for different kinds of devices. Moreover, as we are using the bootstrap framework, I explored on how to use different elements. In addition, the feedback from the real users gave me ideas about how to make our application more user friendly.
Zhang Jiahang
Developer & PM Assistant
From the acceptance test till now, I am getting more familiar with parse database from how to send emails to how to use pointer columns. Moreover, I tried to figure out more circumstances in managing deal templates. For example, a template can be generated from history or saved by merchant. So if the merchant has saved that template already, I need to pick it out from historical templates. Another situation is when the merchant pushes out a deal without using any template, but that deal is actually corresponding to one saved template, I will consider the merchant pushed out that deal by using that template. Creating diagrams and main page pictures also helped with my designing skill and I can consolidate UAT results more efficiently and accurately now.