Assingment
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Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
- Present and articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Scenario
You are the manager of a software development team working on new applications for your company, Optimum Way Development, Inc. Your director has called for all development teams to submit product briefs detailing their current projects. The director plans to share the most promising product briefs with clients at an upcoming meeting. You have software design documents for two potential projects.
Directions
You must choose one of the potential products and use the information contained in the technical specification document to create your product brief. The brief is intended to explain the new application to potential clients. (Use the personas created for the 2-1 Milestone as the audience for this project.) You should highlight the features that will appeal to clients and persuade them to purchase the new application. Your brief should include the following:
- An explanation of the features and functions of the product
- Clear definitions of technical terms and concepts that are relevant to communicating the product capabilities
- An explanation of the benefits of using the product within an organization
- Graphics that support or clarify technical information concerning the product
- Appropriate language for the intended audience
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Product Brief with Graphics This assignment must be 500 to 1,000 words in length and should include at least two graphics that help clarify technical concepts. Any references must be cited in APA format.
Supporting Materials
The following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:
Resource: Software Design Documents Use one of these software design documents as the basis for your product brief.
Website: Webopedia This website gives definitions of several technology terms. You can use this website to assist with defining terminology in the software design documents.
Website: What Is a Product Brief and Why Is It Important? This website explains the components of a product brief and why it is important. Although you do not need to follow the suggested suggestions exactly, this may act as a starting point for structuring your assignment.
Shapiro Library Resource: APA Style This Shapiro Library guide goes over the basics of APA-style formatting and citations.
Project One Rubric
| Criteria | Exemplary (100%) | Proficient (85%) | Needs Improvement (55%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Features and Functions | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Explains the features and functions of the product | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include changing language or composition to meet the needs of the audience | Does not attempt criterion | 16 |
| Technical Terms | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Clearly defines technical terms and concepts that are relevant to communicating the product capabilities | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing additional or more precise definitions or explanations | Does not attempt criterion | 16 |
| Benefits | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Explains the benefits of using the product within an organization | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include additional or more precise explanation of benefits | Does not attempt criterion | 16 |
| Visuals | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Uses graphics to support or clarify technical information concerning the product | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include adding additional graphics or correcting issues with the use of graphics | Does not attempt criterion | 16 |
| Audience | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Uses appropriate language for the intended audience | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include eliminating jargon or using more plain language to convey concepts | Does not attempt criterion | 16 |
| Articulation of Response | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability | Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas | 10 |
| Citations and Attributions | Attributes sources where applicable using citation methods with very few minor errors | Attributes sources where applicable, but with consistent minor errors | Attributes sources where applicable, but with major errors | Does not attribute sources where applicable | 10 |
| Total: | 100% |
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Project 1 Software Design Documents S/W Project 1:
The team is working on another security product. This product is aimed at both consumer level and
business level customers. The product tentatively named “DataNanny” is a data tracker isolation product.
DataNanny will work to isolate you and your personal/corporate data from being collected and sold online.
Unlike other products that work in isolation or on an app-by-app basis, DataNanny will be app-independent
and multi-device aware. It will achieve a totally isolated “environment” for its users ensuring them of
completely untracked usage of all of their personal computing devices (phones, tablets, and
laptops/desktops).
DataNanny, however, requires total buy-in. Users, both individual and corporate, must install and run
DataNanny on all of their devices for the product to be functional. If any single device is omitted, the
blocking of data will not be functional. You can not dam a river if the dam has holes in it.
DataNanny will function using a central server facility that will coordinate all tracking blockers installed on
your devices. All data requests will be routed through DataNanny, which will be constructed to function as a
proxy server for your devices. This will allow DataNanny to filter all network requests for data and allow only
those requests that have been deemed “safe.”
The technical challenge for DataNanny’s proxy server is speed. Users will only tolerate a moderate amount
of delay in page loading and data transfer rates before they begin to lose faith in the value of anonymity.
DataNanny will provide a logging and notification system, where users can see what requests have been
made and which of those have been blocked or allowed. Users will be able to challenge a blocked or
allowed request. Challenged requests will initially be reviewed by an AI, and all requests with a certainty
level below 85% will be directed to an evaluation team to determine why the user needs the request to be
allowed. A user’s request will take no more than 24 hours to resolve. Further research will be needed to
determine the AI inputs appropriate to satisfy a minimum 95% success rate with challenged requests.
All software will be written in Swift due to speed constraints. If management determines that this makes
recruitment difficult, the language can be changed to C++.
S/W Project 2:
This project is the next-generation social networking platform designed to replace Facebook and YouTube
called 1Latte. Its design begins with security, fairness, and data privacy as guiding principles. Users will be
allowed to either create their own content filters, use one of our pre-fabbed content filters, or run without
any filter at all. Since it is a system not intended to be held hostage by advertisers, it will use the
fee-for-service model at the cost of 1Latte per month ($2.95).
The filter-driven model is designed to eliminate the news/media bubbles that have formed in recent years
around certain content platforms. Content filters will be ranked, based upon a “distribution” model, to try to
ensure that filters don’t create or encourage bubbles. Users will be ranked for reputation using a system
similar to the StackOverflow™ user ranking system.
Users will be able to see the ranking for their filters and the ranking of all users and their posts alongside all
content presented on the platform.This is an attempt to allow users to stay aware of the “truthiness” of any
item that they are reading.
All advertising will be marked as advertising using a simple graphical UI indication, such as a special color
or border around all paid content. (Graphic design to be determined at a later time.)
Initial deployment will be web-based, adhering to all current World Wide Web standards as defined by the
W3C. An app-based deployment will be considered later as long as the designers can implement it in such
a way as to prevent the current “walled garden” problem that exists with current social media platforms.
All users will be able to see, download, and clear all data collected by us in the running and maintenance of
iLatte. The only exception to this rule is the user ranking system. Users will be able to see the anonymized
data that created their ranking, but not be able to download or delete this information as this would allow
users to “game the system.”
User messaging will be designed to use a modern open encrypted method, so as not to lock users into a
“walled garden” by forcing them to use our messaging product. This will allow external non-1Latte users to
communicate with our users, thus encouraging them to “join the fold” at their own pace and also not pay a
penalty for leaving. Since all of our users’ content will be downloadable, a user wishing to leave will not be
forced to stay because we are holding their data hostage.
- Project 1 Software Design Documents
- S/W Project 1:
- S/W Project 2:
