Transcript Messiah College Gender Initiative DBMS Dana Champion (GI Liaison, M6 Leader)

Messiah College
Gender Initiative
DBMS
Dana Champion (GI Liaison, M6 Leader)
Dave Lanzer (The other guy)
Jason Long (ITS Liaison)
Executive Summary
• The DBMS provides a method for electronic
event, contact, and resource management
• Why do we need it?
– Current paper system is inefficient and ineffective
– Our system provides easy access for leaders on and
off campus to the GI data.
• Investment
– Student planned, designed, and programmed
– Tailored for a Messiah College organization
Project Introduction
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Problems
Word-of-mouth networking and meetings of
the women's caucus
Data-entry
Time to organize
Access to information – everything is on
paper…somewhere
Project Introduction
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Objectives
Get rid of the paper!!!!!
Interactive public-access calendar of events
Recall contacts and conversations
Easy referencing of GI library files
User-friendly application
Project Overview
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Possible solution candidates
Our solution
How we implemented
Results
Application Demonstration
• Currently located at //reg01/gender/
• To be relocated by ITS
Impact of Application
• Projected impact of application
– Accessibility of information
– Streamline process for GI
• Will our goals be met?
Project Strengths
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POC, Michéle Leaman
Programming language/platform – ITS
Scope of the project
Organization was flexible
Split up functional implementation tasks
Different backgrounds
Good friends
Project Weaknesses
• Unable to supervise migration and final
deployment
• Communicating ideas from different
experiences
Sponsor Organization Assessment
• Deb Hoffman
– We're very pleased with the work done by
Dana, Jason, and Dave. It's very user friendly.
It's exciting to see this move from the idea stage
to implementation, and we're just very pleased
with how substantial it is.
Download video at
http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/bnejmeh/CSC333b\jl1192\resources\Milestone6/Video1.mpg
Sponsor Organization Assessment
• Michéle Leaman
– I had the opportunity to meet every week with the
group and really enjoyed working with them. I was
very impressed with the way they responded to our
concerns and our requests. They were always very
detailed with their questions.
Download video at
http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/bnejmeh/CSC333b\jl1192\resources\Milestone6/Video2.mpg
Lessons Learned
• Easier for us to advise in our specialized
areas rather than have a rotating team leader
• Iterative/rapid prototyping – most coding in
M4 instead of M5 (no time in M5 anyway)
• Customer involvement in decision making
• DFDs/Normalization redundant
– Note: Some documentation really helped
There’s so much more we could do!
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Editing deleted events
Time recognition
Cached pages
Required fields
Phone fields
*HIGHLIGHT*
Automated data transfer in DB
View previous info during submission
Questions
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