Notes from Meetings and Interviews
June 20, 2005
- Isaac, Michael, and Jason in attendance.
- Interview notes are on-line.
- Pieces of the application have been defined.
- More pieces need to be flushed out.
- Talked about a possible scanner interface, for scanning marks, letters, etc... with Ricoh devices.
- Data model to be developed.
- Still going to contact UW Grad Studies Office (GSO) for getting OUAC data, may help in developing our data model.
- Math Faculty GSO contact may be helpful.
- Isaac is away at the end of this week until July 18th.
- Michael is going to get a copy of the Filemaker database to play with while Isaac is away. Maybe do some HTML form mock-ups.
- Next meeting Tuesday July 19th.
User Interviews
June 7, 2005
- Isaac, Michael, and Jason in attendance
- TA assignments is most frustrating
- Visited the OUAC site - did a fake application
- Noted we can make OUAC number a primary key
- Isaac to make more complete notes
- Faculty interested in on-line distribution of application - too much paper shuffling right now.
- Still have to talk to Debbie Mustin
- OUAC handles UW on-line applications - need to talk to campus Grad Office to understand how it works
- We'll meet again at 1:30pm on June 20th.
May 24, 2005
- Isaac, Michael, and Jason in attendance
- Place notes on cswiki
- Isaac and Mike to both interview staff in Grad Office
- Debbie Mustin may be a good resource
- Need to determine the inputs, the outputs
- First step is a plan:
- Details of functionality (ie. what does the office do?)
- Details of "backend" (ie. design decisions, data model)
- How do we import data from the existing database?
- Are there issues with integrating with other systems? (ie. data exports for Math Faculty grad office)
- Are we going to suggest changes to processes in the office?
- Once we have a plan, we need to determine what gets done first
- Isaac and Michael to interview Grad office staff over the next 2 weeks
- We'll meet again June 7th at 1:30pm.
-- JasonTestart - 24 May 2005