Final presentation for the Manulife Financial co-op project - Spring 2009 term, Canadian Division - Kitchener/Waterloo

1. Co-op Wiki & Manulife Toolbar 2Spring 2009 Coop Project MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION Project Manager: Tyrell Cromoshuk Lead Designer: Michael Lam Lead Analysts: Jonah Hu, Rumana Khan Designers: Xuan Fu, Yue Quan, Junyu Chen, Dylan Zhou Analysts: Stephanie Cheng, Katie O’Reilly, Aidan Lam

3. Provide a centralized location of resources or resource connectivity

4. Guaranteeing easily accessible resources

5. Ensure that all students are well informed of co-op news and events

7. Choose the project ones with greatest prospect for success

9. IS Collaboration Portal

11. Increase accessibility

12. Introduce taxonomy and classification of information

13. Expand the scope of the wiki to H.R. and Toronto coops

14. Add new content and update older content

17. Content writers: Stephanie Cheng, Rumana Khan, Aidan Lam, Katie O’Reilly

19. New Co-op Wiki Classifications Categorized the wiki into: Administrative InformationGeneral information about the company: how to set up conference calls, building maps, parking and submitting Concur expense forms. Student LifeInformation about coop events, getting around the city and nearby restaurants, shopping centers and entertainment venues. Meet the CoopsA listing of coop students, grouped by term. Files – Actuarial Links and resources for Actuarial coop students Files – Information SystemsLinks and resources for Actuarial coop students General Coop Information Collection of miscellaneous information for coop students

22. Files for Actuarial Coop

23. Toronto information

27. Create a new category for Finance coop students

28. Merge the “Manulife Software Suites” wiki into the Coop Wiki

31. Incorporated stock, calendar and merits components

33. Calendar component – Summarize past and future events as well as add events

35. Create a platform that will help coops to be more inter-connected

37. Redesigned the product from ground up with some of their core ideas

38. Added a greater audience scope

39. Revamped the application infrastructure and UI design

41. Encourages independent component development

42. Allows “Plug and Play” oriented compatibility testing

43. Easy component isolation to simplify debugging

44. Designed for straightforward component integration

45. Offers basic application features and gestures

47. Memory Management

48. Server Connection Management

49. System Tray Icon

50. Application Behaviour

52. Follow market / stock advancement on the fly

54. Current Price

55. Price & Percentage Change

57. Retrieving North American stock market information

58. Implement automatic refresh function

59. Converted data source from MSN to Google to Yahoo!

60. Streamlined user interface

61. Added more stocks information

63. Focus: Effective Interface

64. Additional features

65. Improved previous functionality

66. Quality Assurance

67. Ensure proper user interface

70. Merit Sender

71. Type of Merit (Defined by the icon)

73. Optimize the use of space

74. Professionally looking

75. Added functionalities like comments popup box

76. Automatic Refresh

78. Focus: User Friendliness

79. Enhanced pre-existing functionality

80. Included new and realistic functions

81. Quality Assurance

82. Check if application designs are to standard

83. Verify implemented functionality

85. Provides all the necessary details

87. Venue

88. Start Date and Time

90. Retrieve information from the coop wiki site

91. Load in the retrieved information

92. Link it to the appropriate event details pages

94. Quality Assurance

98. Pairing the Search Parameter with the proper search engine

99. Dynamically build search strings

100. Trigger browser to launch

101. User Interface Design

103. Quality Assurance

105. Divided in 4 categories catered for different coop groups

108. Standardized the interface for 16 buttons.

109. Add links to those button.

110. Set the configuration file for links.

112. Quality Assurance

113. Ensured that all links work

115. Credit all coops who have contributed

117. Assembly version number update

118. Design

119. Format of text for easy read

121. Focus: Include necessary information in a layout that can be maintained for continual information updates

122. Research/Filter information

123. Implement a scrollbar

124. Quality Assurance

126. A weather component

128. What have we learnt?

129. Conclusion