3rd MeetingMatt Bernstein, Paul Capelli, Jared Segal

November 20, 2008

Accomplishments

Preliminary syllabus research Meeting with X Follow-up meeting with David Lynn Project Schedule Requirements Draft Started

What is a syllabus?

Paul has provided us with excellent outline Defines all the fields required to develop a

syllabus Mentions ABET requirements Should work as good template to present to

stakeholders

Discussion With David Lynn

Followed up with David Lynn Need a version description Configuration description Installation and maintenance Well-commented code

Prototype

Begun prototype construction Will be accomplished using Javascript, pre-

developed syllabus Lightweight model will not include any back-end

database interaction Will eventually be demonstrated to stakeholders

Prototype Progress

Started on the student view Provides a listing of courses Login portion still required Additional views still in development Will be using prototype as framework for

development Ideas for design will be taken from prototype

High Level Schedule

High Level Schedule Produced Taken from a certain organization's “Custom

Development Framework” Should provide high level guidelines for

completing tasks in required timeframe Additional tasks can be added to separate .mpp

file to document what we have performed

Website

Will website be PHP accessible? If so, Matt has an open source PHP CMS to

allow for the easy update of the website If not, we still need FTP, password, link to begin

progress on our project website

Software Development Environment

Hardware Procurement What is the state of server procurement? Apache Webserver installed on all of our local

machines J2EE, MySql also installed on local machines Plan is to perform development on local

machines until hardware (server) is procured

Requirements Documentation

Will seek to develop requirements documentation over the break

Hoping to complete a few more stakeholder interviews today

Project schedule places final requirements due date on 12/8/2008

We are on schedule to complete this timeframe

Next Steps

Begin draft of requirements document Continue Interviews of stakeholders Website Server procurement Complete Prototype Discussions with David Lynn of interfacing with

Blackboard/Class Rolls/OASIS