CSCI 5011-201
Team Project

It's time to begin working on your web design projects! To begin with, the class has been divided into five teams. Please click here if you don't remember which team you are on.

Project Deliverables

During the course of the project, you will be submitting a number of deliverables to your instructor. Typically, (but not necessarily) each deliverable indicates the end of a design phase. Remember the design phases? They went something like this:

  1. Information gathering (Getting information from the customer)
  2. Strategy (How do you best address the goals of the customer?)
  3. Prototyping
  4. Implementation
  5. Launch
  6. Maintenance & growth

By the end of this project, you will either have implemented each of the phases or submitted a plan indicating how the phase will be handled when the time arrives.


Phase 0: Planning Before the Phases

By the end of class on Monday, March 10th, you will have met as a team. (This is actually the second time you've met) During this meeting, you should:

The team contract is an agreement between your team members as to how you will conduct your business during the course of this project. At a minimum, the contract should include:

These team contracts must be e-mailed to the instructor by the due date shown above.


Phase 1: Information Gathering

Your team will need to examine the documentation provided about the ETSU E-commerce Certificate, then come up with a list of questions to ask your customer. The customer is your instructor acting as an intermediary between you and the College of Business and the Department of Computer and Information Science. These questions should cover all of the topics for the information gathering phase that you feel the documentation did not answer.

Do not ask every question you can think of. This would overwhelm the typical client and is sure to make it so you do not get your answers back in a timely fashion. Be sure to keep the number of questions so as not to overburden your clients, yet still cover all the areas you need answers to. In addition, assume that your client has limited technical experience. Keep the tone of your questions to the appropriate level.

Your team's questions must be e-mailed to the instructor by the due date shown above.


Phase 2: Strategy

Using the e-commerce documentation and the answers to your questions from phase 1, you should be able to develop a strategy for giving the ETSU E-commerce Certificate a web presence.

Please outline your strategy to your customer with a proposal letter on paper submitted in class to the instructor by the above due date and time. Make sure your response is a formal letter that your team would be proud of if they were in fact a web design company. Heck, if you want to create a company letterhead, that would be okay too. The letter will be graded on completeness and correctness of your answers to the customer's needs, the level of professionalism with which you write the letter, and general grammar and spelling.


Phase 3: Prototyping

During the April 7th open lab period, each team will be meeting with the instructor to present your prototypes and to discuss any difficulties you're having. Treat this meeting as if it were a meeting with an official customer.


Phase 4: Implementation

During the last lecture period (second to last class) of the semester, you will be making a presentation to the class of your project. This presentation will be conducted as if you were presenting your final design for approval by the customer.


Phases 5 and 6: Launch/Plan for Maintenance & Growth

For the final phase of the project, your team will submit two web pages. The first one (the customer's web page) should be the result of all your hard work and savvy and should fulfill the customer's objectives. The second one (your progress/planning/implementation page) will have an audience of one, namely your instructor, and will contain a well-organized presentation of:

These pages will be uploaded to one of your team member's cscidbw.etsu.edu accounts by the Friday before exam week.


Grading

Your web pages will be graded on:

For your web page to meet the requirements of this project, it should:

Your final project grade will be based on the grade you receive for your information gathering questions and your letter to the customer (10%), the grade you receive on your prototype/progress meeting (5%), the grade you receive for the client web page (40%), the grade you receive for your team web page (15%), your presentation grade (15%), and an individual peer evaluation from each member of your team (15%). Good luck!