3. Project timeline
Contract signature 24 June 2011
Discovery day 28 June 2011
Application installation 5 August 2011
System testing 24 August 2011
UAT 16 September 2011
Live 21 September 2011
Contract to live in 12 weeks
5. Requirements
Locations - MUST
Pocket guide - MUST
Feeds - SHOULD
PC availability - SHOULD
People Search – SHOULD
Announcements – SHOULD
Blackboard – SHOULD
Courses - COULD
Friend finder - COULD
Library search – COULD
Alerts - COULD
6. Flexible requirements
Locations
Pocket guide
Help finder
Welcome week
Announcements
Feeds
News
Events
PC availability
People Search
Announcements
Blackboard
Courses
Friend finder
Library search
Alerts We’ll keep going until we run out of time
iTunes U
7. The team
Specialist
content Specialist ICT
developers e.g. technical
Education, Content Technology teams e.g.
Marketing, Linux, DBAs
Research, (Lead: Comm’s) (Lead: ICT) Etc.
etc.
Central co-located web team – joint leadership/prioritisation
8. Roles and responsibilities
Locations
• Map - Dan Communications
• Positions - Pamela Communications
PC availability - Saul ICT
Pocket guide - Emma Communications
Help finder - Pamela Communications
Welcome week - Pamela Communications
Feeds - Saul ICT
News - Dan Communications
Events - Dan Communications
People Search - Jas/Neil ICT
Announcements - Pamela Communications
Blackboard - Vlad/Jonathan ICT
Courses - Vlad ICT
Friend finder - Saul ICT
Library search - Fereshteh/Heather ICT
Alerts - Heather ICT
iTunes U - Dan Communications
9. Light governance
Initiation
• WMB approval
• PID
Project governance
• Weekly 15 min
meetings
• Rolling action/issues
list
Go live
• Formal RTP and
change control through
CAB
10. Change control
The app was the control
Got together every day
Team agreed changes
11. Testing
Range of devices – team of 5
testers
Constant release and testing
Immediate feedback
Issues list
Formal system testing and UAT
20. Face to face promotion
• Added to Comms Freshers’ Fair
stand
• Mentions of Imperial Mobile
added to senior staff
presentations on first day of
term to all new students
22. Feedback
Feedback from Students:
• “I wanted first to congratulate you on the idea for the IC app!
One suggestion: one very useful feature (from my point of view)
would be to be able to check one's timetable directly there.”
Philip Fol (Undergraduate – Natural Sciences)
App store / Market place customer reviews:
• Fantastic
by Ali HB Like it :-)
• Good stuff!
by Very useful app that gives you useful infos when you have no access to
your computer but only an iPhone in your hand!
• Smooth running, location tool is brilliant, saves me having to carry a map
with me wherever I go in order to get used to the campus.
26. Targeted
• Audience specific
versions of Imperial
Mobile e.g. staff, open
days etc.
• More granular group
based access to apps,
content and alerts e.g.
department or even
naixn
course based access.