May 4 2012

Roles of Individuals

Chen Jia
Role: Project Manager

Chen Jia is the project manager in this project. He has the overall responsibility for the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of the project.

In detail, Chen Jia is responsible to design the Gantt Chart, research the academic work of Dunbar’s Number, design the storyboards, write ideas of the project, record the video, research the consideration about Privacy factor and write the overview of pitch to dragons den panel.


Sun Guochen
Role: Business Analyst

Sun Guochen is the business analyst in this project. He has the responsibility to perform the core business analysis and solve problems.

Specifically, Sun Guochen is responsible to find and review the related news items in the tech media, design and draw the mockups and web maps, research the consideration about Economic factor.


Lu Yu
Role: Architect

Lu Yu is the architect in this project. He has the responsibility to create architectures.

Concretely, Lu Yu is responsible to analyze the existing similar tools in IOS platform, draw the UML diagrams and write the personas and scenarios, research the consideration about Social factor.


Wang Wei
Role: Developer

Wang Wei is the developer in this project. He has the responsibility to write code and design algorithm.

Specifically, Wang Wei is responsible to write the project brief, research the academic work of Contacts Priority Ranking Algorithm, write the calculation method of ranking algorithm, make the tech demos and link to demo software, perform the usability evaluation and research the consideration about Legal factor.


Sen Debopam
Role: Tester

Sen Debopam is the tester in this project. He has the responsibility to test the application and track defects.

Concretely, Sen Debopam is responsible to write the project brief, analyze the existing similar tools in Android platform, design and perform the interviews with users and focus groups, write the overview of standards and protocols.


Mar 15 2012

Project Gantt Chart

Gantt Chart 1:

This project Gantt chart was completed as an initial one on 27th, February, 2012. 16 tasks from “Welcome and project brief” to “Overview of pitch to dragons den panel” were arranged over two and a half months from 25th, February to 11th, May.

Gantt Chart 2:

This project Gantt chart was completed on 17th, April, 2012, which is an up to date Gantt chart for our project. Please notice that a new task is added to our project, which is “Consideration of Contextual Factors”, describing the aspects of social, economic, privacy and legal of our project. The time duration of the project remains the same. But time scales for most tasks are quite different from the initial Gantt chart.


Feb 29 2012

Welcome Blog

Hello, everyone! We are Group 7, and the name of our group is “OrientExpress”. In the following three months, we will work together as a team, share the joys and sorrows and cooperate closely on our social networking project. Our group is constituted with one mentor, one critical friend and five project members:

Mentor:
Norhidayah Azman
Email: nba08r@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Critical Friend:
Mandy Lo
Email: cmml100@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Group Menbers:
Chen Jia
MSc Software Engineering
Email: jc8g11@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Sun Guochen
MSc Software Engineering
Email: gs2e11@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Lu Yu
MSc Software Engineering
Email: yl1e11@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Sen Debopam
MSc in Software Engineering
Email: ds1g11@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Wang Wei
MSc Web Technology
Email: ww3g11@ecs.soton.ac.uk