These materials are prepared only for the students enrolled in the course Distributed Software Development (DSD) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of M

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NOTICE!

• These materials are prepared only for the
  students enrolled in the course Distributed
  Software Development (DSD) at the Department of
  Computer Science and Engineering, University
  of Mälardalen, Västerås, Sweden and at the
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing,
  University of Zagreb, Croatia (year 2005/2006).
• For all other purposes, authors written
  permission is needed!
• The purpose of these materials is to help
  students in better understanding of lectures in
  DSD and not their replacement!

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Selected Topics in Software Engineering -
Distributed Software Development
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WebProjectProject Description and Plan
WebProject Team
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Today

• WebProject?
• What can it do?
• Do I need it?
• How will you do it?
• By when can you do it?
• Activity list?
• Who will do it?

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WebProject?

• a web application designed to help Project
  Managers in organizing projects
• organizing
• members
• tasks
• milestones
• costs
• reports

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What can it do? (I)

• handling different users roles
• administrator
• Project Manager
• Vice Project Manager
• Team member
• handling multiple projects
• the same user can have different roles in
  different projects

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What can it do? (II)

• handling tasks
• task labels
• task progress
• task dependencies
• milestones
• viewing and freezing current Project Plan
• a list of tasks
• Gantts chart
• viewing frozen Project Plans

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What can it do? (III)

• submitting members Week Task Reports
• members suggestions for updating the duration
• generating reports
• Task Report
• Week Report
• Member Report
• Project Report
• report formats
• XML
• HTML
• PDF

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What can it do? (IV)

• e-mail alerting
• members
• managers
• customers
• handling costs
• fixed costs
• current average salary per hour
• coefficients

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Do I need it?

• we hope you do ?
• web access
• accessible by IE, Firefox, Opera
• easy clean interface
• multiple languages support
• multiple skins support

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How will you do it? (I)

• base technologies
• PHP on Apache Web Server
• PostgreSQL Database System
• Smarty Templates engine
• other technologies used
• JavaScript
• XML / XSLT
• HTML / CSS

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How will you do it? (II)
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By when can you do it?

• no later then 2006-01-19
• as quickly as possible ?

• take care of the milestones
• communicate a lot
• watch out for cultural differences

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Activity list?
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Who will do it?

• Ji Xiang An
• database maintenance, coding
• Laszlo Istvan Etesi, Vice Project Manager
• helping managing project, web design, coding
• Singh Dhillon Gurjodh
• XML specifications, coding, documentation,
  testing
• Angel Garcia Sanchez
• XML specifications, coding
• Ivana Bosnic, Project Manager
• managing project, documentation, communication
  with customers, database design
• Hrvoje Ðurdevic
• JavaScript graphic coding, PHP coding
• Krešimir Kroflin
• application core coding, CVS maintenance
• Ranko Radonic
• Smarty functions coding, PHP coding

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Questions?