Vasile Monica

The program will deliver a new educational game

that will help children learn foreign languages through interesting and attractive exercises;

The game can be used by parents, teachers and also by anyone who wants to learn foreign languages in a funny and easy way.

Description

target people

children (3-7 years);

cost

200.000 $;

time

It will take 4 months to be created and tested;

number of people involved

15 persons;

innovation

The teaching methods used in this product are new on the market.

Planning

Be easy to use and understand by everybody;

Contain at least 5 of the most used languages nowadays : English, French, German, Italian, Spanish;

Enrich kids` vocabulary and expand their general knowledge;

Have a user-friendly and attractive graphical interface to involve children into using this program.

Purpose

Help children learn new foreign languages;

Use at least 5 different learning techniques;

Interact with users through an attractive graphical interface;

Teach children new information they can assimilate in an easy way.

In a future version, the program should support Mac OS too.

Functional Goals

It will be sold firstly in kindergartens;

Obtain 50.000 $ profit in the first months;

Sell 10 programs in the first month and then increase the number of programs sold to 50/month;

Implement a good marketing campaign.

Business Goals

Monitor the degree of satisfaction and the speed of learning

among children in order to increase the usability and complexity;

Deliver quality soft fault free;

Implement coding and testing standards;

Using V cycle;

Include ways of solving the potential problems;

Quality Goals

Human resources :

Project Manager - Brad;

Quality Engineer - Caroline;

Developers - Lucy, Oscar, Tudor ;

Testers – Gale, Jennifer;

Translators – Mary, Kate, Larry, Leonard, Gordon;

Educator - Lindsay;

Marketing specialist - Patricia;

Software architect - Geoffrey.

Resources

Work hours in normal conditions :

Average : 20-22 $/h

The Project manager and software architect earn more;

Work hour costs in case of overtime :

For everyone : 25 $/h

Material resources :

computers with Linux and Windows.

Resources

Resources

TIME and MONEY (No overtime!);

The words and games should not be very difficult and have a gradual growth;

It should be made a study to reveal the most useful and attractive ways for learning preferred by children.

The graphics should ensure portability;

Windows, Linux;

The activities should be short and very catchy, in order not to bore the child.

Constraints

Activities

Development

Planning and Design

Testing

Maintenance and bug fixes

Concept

Analysing

Project Timeline

Activities

Scope, Analysis, Design

Activities

Development, Unit Testing

Activities

Integration Testing, Maintenance

Red risk : Some children may be used to one learning

method and more techniques may confuse them –they tend not to remember what they learn.

Solution : There must be more versions of the game so that everybody can learn effectively;

Yellow risk : If the game is excessively used, players may become addicted to it;

Solution : Its use should be limited.

End user Risks

Overtiming; Good planning;

Operating system incompatibility; Implementing different solutions for different OS;

Delivering untested software;

Delivering software with bugs; No overtime so the software can be tested;

Software too complex – difficult to be maintained; Respect software principles;

Personnel`s qualification – could need trainings. Hire qualified persons.

Functional Risks

High prices Establish the targeted place on the market and make studies

to ensure clients;

Low or zero profit Have a good marketing campaign;

Some companies could not want the program to be maintained continuously due to additional costs; Take this cost into consideration when establishing final

product`s price;

Competition. Always come up with new innovative ideas.

Business Risks

We have used Microsoft Project to plan the program;

It is very useful since it suggest you what are the main task you should assign, and also is very helpful for placing in time the activities;

This way, we can focus on our project`s main targets and make sure we will have a quality product.

Conclusion