May 11 2012

Welcome and Navigation

Important: Please read this post first.

This is the blog of Group 7: OrientExpress. This blog records our progress of design and develop a new social networking application. We strongly recommend you to use the “TABLE of Content” which provided below as the navigation tool to help you browse the entire contents on our blog.

What’s more, 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 Software Engineering
Email: ds1g11@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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

The processes of our product development can be divided into four main phases. The first phase is “Planning” which including generate the project brief and set the project management plan. The second phase is “Concept Development” which including analyzes the existing similar tools, search the related tech news items, research the related academic work and perform the user interview. After that, the third phase is “System-level and Detail Design” which includes the processes of product design, engineering development and product demonstration. Finally, the last phase is “Contextual Factors Consideration” which considers the social factors around our software and also provides an overview of pitch to dragons den panel.


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