GR1 - Project Proposal and Analysis

User analysis

• Persona 1: Jill does not have a calendar set.She just joined a group, she got invited to a to a meeting.
• Persona 2: Power User - Drew Whisenant - Executive Committee Chair for Sigma Nu 
  • General opinions
    • Great idea, especially for users who have to constantly deal with scheduling meetings
  • Favorite Features
    • Being able to invite other people without having them log on
    • Having a recurrence option that can allow users to choose a day in the week to schedule a recurring event can help users because they don't need to recreate an event every time
  • Additional Features
    • An optimal message to be attached to the invite
    • A way to rank/select pre-scheduled flexible events that can be moved so it can be moved
• Persona 3: Bret wants to have lunch with his frnds (short time a lot more ppl)
• Persona 4: Didy does not have a smartphone (non mobile user)

Task analysis:

Tasks:

• Linking of calendars/create accounts
• Create meetings
• Sending invitations
• View mashed events
• Group circles

Linking of calendars/create accounts,

Goal: To link/register users on to MashCal

PostCondition: Have account, imported calendar, can create events

Precondition: user want to create or join an event

Subtask: input login, import cal

Create meeings:

Goal: create people

Precondition: Have an account

Postcondition: invitations sent, subscription deadline

Subtasks: Event recurence, deadline

Inviting people:

Goal invite ppl by bumping

Precondition: have a creatd event, have intended users/ mail group

Postcondition: Users receive emails with a link, event link created, 

Subtask: Choose group/ email (autocomplete)

View mashed events:

Goals: 

Precondition: have an account; 

Postcondition: view subtask

Subtask: Reschedule, edit events, filtering,

Group circles:

Goal:

Pre: Have an account, have users emails/group

Post: Have a group for quick inviting

Subtask: Adding removing emails, emailing individually