Thursday, April 18, 2013

Scope Statement

Project title: Sex Education Software Project.
Date: March 11th    Prepared by: Nguyen Tran Hoang Viet, Team Member, vietcode0602@yahoo.com.vn
Project Summary and Justification: Steven requests this project to assist the strategic goals of ABC Company. The SES project will provide a new solution in teaching and learning sex education lessons by using visual aid and games. It will also increase the income of ABC Company by selling copyright because useful features of this application are predicted to attract many users on portable devices. The budget of this project is 20.800$ and the annual budget for maintenance is 4.000$. The predict payback time is three months.

Product characteristics and Requirements:
Sex education application is software to help students to have more experiences in sex transmitted diseases as well as to check their knowledge of what they have learnt in class. Moreover, we have provided two functions such as: "ask the expert" and especially "birth control" in the hope that they will provide and improve contraceptive knowledge for the reader. In this application, the "ask the experts" function can help to connect the reader directly with the expert. Therefore, the reader can keep their secret confidential and comfortable chatting with them without fear of being financially charged. In addition, the game also provides blog and article functions for reader and expert. The expert can post their article on application; of course, the contents will be checked before publishing. In other hand, the readers, especial students, can tell their own opinions by using blog and share in social network if it is necessary. Here is the details information about functions that I have mentioned above:

1.       The project is written on Android platform if the users want to use this software, they will have to install Android 4.0 or higher. In addition, the users have to set up the Adobe Flash to run the example games.
2.       Articles: articles posted on the program are written by experts. The articles appear on the program are written by experts permit the users view directly and if they want to save and review in other time, the system will save this file to PDF format.
3.       The "Ask the Expert": permit the users to chat directly with the expert. Moreover, we will add some advantage functions such as: First Night Sex Guide, Foreplay Techniques Guide, Sex Mistakes Guide to help the users avoid repeating the unnecessary question. All the functions are free so everyone can enjoy it.
4.       Blog: This project provided blog functionality to users and experts, it helps every user linked inextricably and let talk up their own comments on games or product or their experiences and they can share their comment on social network.
5.       Sex transmitted diseases: take out the information about infectious diseases/STDs. The users can update the information in this function and from there to know how to avoid.
6.       Birth control: The information in this function will discuss reproductive health. We will provide some information about the ways of contraception such as how to use condom, how to calculate ovulation date...and birth plan.
7.       Education games: we provide 2 games about the sex education, it will help students to verify the knowledge that they have learnt in class. In addition, games will help students to reach the expand knowledge which they have not study in school.
Summary of Project Deliverables:
Project management-related deliverables: business case, charter, team contract, scope statement, WBS, schedule, progress reports, final project presentation, final project report, lesson-learned report, and any other documents required to manage the project.
                Product-related deliverables:
1.       Research: the research that we do is learning about the children's personality in stage 14-16 years from that launched the application in accordance with the project and cause excitement for their children.
2.       Devices: the equipment used should be asked to the Android platform 4.0 or higher, because the level of security along with the perfection of the system should guarantee the performance of the application to achieve optimal level and fewer unintended problems.
3.       Instructions for using project tools: the application will provide the information on how to use several project tools such as: WBS, grantt charts, network diagrams... Moreover, some sample file will be added in the application software. For example, Microsoft Project files will be available to show WBS, Grantt chart, network diagram...
4.       Articles: The application includes about 15 useful articles and it can capable of storing at least 500 articles in PDF format and permit the user can download it. The range of each PDF file is 5 pages.
5.       Links: The application will be linked with 10 useful pages such as some page has the sex education content or share the experiences.
6.       Expert database: the information about the "Ask the Expert" function will be saved in there, the system permit the users access and find the best answers or contact to the expert.
7.       Design: the design will be included a site map, suggested format, appropriate graphics... We realize that the interface is needed to communicate with the users owe decide to get the information about the design of interface from the end users and improve it.
8.       Paper design: we provide some paper design and technical specification of the device for end users who know the technical specifications and minimum requirements to operate optimally.
9.       Example screen design: some example screen design will be uploaded on the website to introduce the customers for illustrating picture about application.
10.   Test plan: the test plan will document how the website will be tested, who is testing and how the bugs will be reported and fixed.
11.   The project benefit measurements plan: a project benefit plan will measure the financial value of the application.
Project success criteria: Our goal is to complete this project within 1 month for no more than $20.800. The project sponsor, Ethan John, has emphasized the importance of the project paying for itself within 3 months after the project is complete. To reach this financial goal, the project will have strongly user inputs. We will have developed the benefit functions and methods permit the company get back the costs in short times or complete projects sooner than planned and this project is considered successful if the company's image is improving thanks to the mailing of sales projects.
Ranking Potential Risk
        The lack of sex education software on mobile devices for reference and reflection.
        Lack of inputs from client representatives and sponsors.
        The application does not conform to a number of other devices.
        The problems of cost and potential benefit of application after 3 months of release.
        The user is not accepted or agreed with the application interface and they want to modify to suit them more.