Vasile Monica

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 The program will deliver a new educational game
that will help children learn foreign languages
through interesting and attractive exercises;
 The game can be used by parents, teachers and also
by anyone who wants to learn foreign languages in a
funny and easy way.
Description

 target people
 children (3-7 years);
 cost
 200.000 $;
 time
 It will take 4 months to be created and tested;
 number of people involved
 15 persons;
 innovation
 The teaching methods used in this product are new on
the market.
Planning

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 Be easy to use and understand by everybody;
 Contain at least 5 of the most used languages nowadays :
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish;
 Enrich kids` vocabulary and expand their general
knowledge;
 Have a user-friendly and attractive graphical interface to
involve children into using this program.
Purpose

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 Help children learn new foreign languages;
 Use at least 5 different learning techniques;
 Interact with users through an attractive graphical
interface;
 Teach children new information they can assimilate in an
easy way.
 In a future version, the program should support Mac OS
too.
Functional Goals

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 It will be sold firstly in kindergartens;
 Obtain 50.000 $ profit in the first months;
 Sell 10 programs in the first month and then increase the
number of programs sold to 50/month;
 Implement a good marketing campaign.
Business Goals

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 Monitor the degree of satisfaction and the speed of learning
among children in order to increase the usability and
complexity;
 Deliver quality soft fault free;
 Implement coding and testing standards;
 Using V cycle;
 Include ways of solving the potential problems;
Quality Goals

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 Human resources :
 Project Manager - Brad;
 Quality Engineer - Caroline;
 Developers - Lucy, Oscar, Tudor ;
 Testers – Gale, Jennifer;
 Translators – Mary, Kate, Larry, Leonard, Gordon;
 Educator - Lindsay;
 Marketing specialist - Patricia;
 Software architect - Geoffrey.
Resources

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 Work hours in normal conditions :
 Average : 20-22 $/h
 The Project manager and software architect earn more;
 Work hour costs in case of overtime :
 For everyone : 25 $/h
 Material resources :
 computers with Linux and Windows.
Resources

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Resources

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 TIME and MONEY (No overtime!);
 The words and games should not be very difficult
and have a gradual growth;
 It should be made a study to reveal the most useful
and attractive ways for learning preferred by children.
 The graphics should ensure portability;
 Windows, Linux;
 The activities should be short and very catchy, in
order not to bore the child.
Constraints

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Activities
Development
Planning and
Design
Testing
Maintenance and
bug fixes
Concept
Analysing

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Project Timeline

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Activities
Scope, Analysis, Design

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Activities
Development, Unit Testing

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Activities
Integration Testing, Maintenance

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 Red risk : Some children may be used to one learning
method and more techniques may confuse them –
they tend not to remember what they learn.
 Solution : There must be more versions of the game so
that everybody can learn effectively;
 Yellow risk : If the game is excessively used, players
may become addicted to it;
 Solution : Its use should be limited.
End user Risks

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 Overtiming;
 Good planning;
 Operating system incompatibility;
 Implementing different solutions for different OS;
 Delivering untested software;
 Delivering software with bugs;
 No overtime so the software can be tested;
 Software too complex – difficult to be maintained;
 Respect software principles;
 Personnel`s qualification – could need trainings.
 Hire qualified persons.
Functional Risks

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 High prices
 Establish the targeted place on the market and make studies
to ensure clients;
 Low or zero profit
 Have a good marketing campaign;
 Some companies could not want the program to be
maintained continuously due to additional costs;
 Take this cost into consideration when establishing final
product`s price;
 Competition.
 Always come up with new innovative ideas.
Business Risks

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 We have used Microsoft Project to plan the program;
 It is very useful since it suggest you what are the
main task you should assign, and also is very helpful
for placing in time the activities;
 This way, we can focus on our project`s main targets
and make sure we will have a quality product.
Conclusion