So after meeting with the client, Professor Timothy Hendrick and Scrum Master Professor Debra Caires, we had an opportunity to dissect more into the concept and sort of paint the outline of the what the application was to entail.
The application that was in mind seemed to encompass a variety of tools to help aid, inform, and benefit any person who would be going to visit any of the Santa Clara Valley Wine Association wineries that are located around the Morgan Hill area. The concept seemed not too far away from combining multiple existing tools such as GPS navigation, trip planning, links to websites, working hours of the wineries, and to aid a user have an excellent experience while visiting the wineries.
The current state of the application was laid out by a graduate student. The product as so eloquently put was done by a "grad student." This implied that it was perhaps hastily or hurriedly done due to a grad student's busy schedule. I believe the development teams from CS100W will be to take the skeleton and help implement and fill in the organs of the application. Realistically, the application will take several semesters but the goal will be to have something tangible to showcase at the Innovation Challenge and perhaps win a cool $5000 for the team. "Potential seed money for a start-up," was what Professor Caires commented. (Caires, 2015)
We have to do research on how to train the client. This seems like an interesting task because the client, Professor Hendrick, has worked in several start-ups and hardly seems like he may need any sort of training. However, perhaps the training they he may need is what we the developmental team have expertise in. We are tech-savvy Computer Science majors and know what is potentially possible to do in coding. We will have to of course get something functionally tangible and instruct the client how to navigate through the product. We can also do research on implementing certain widgets that will be used in the application such as Google Maps, Trip Planner, and so forth. We can also teach the client in possible ways to minimize and simplify the user interface, so as to not overwhelm new users to the application. If users are to use the application on their smartphone, we will have to prevent the application from crowding their screen and have only a few things they can access through touch.
So hopefully this project will lead to a wonderful end project
-Jonathan
