Assignment task: Your company wants to create smartphone app that will help visually-impaired students navigate inside their school. For example, a student with vision problems needs to go from classroom to another, from one office to a lab, from a lab to a restroom, etc. Traditionally, dogs, canes, and Braille indicators help somebody navigate their way around. These aids can be used together since they can be complementary to each other. There's obviously a great need for a visually-impaired person to have some type of aid that can think, see, hear, and speak in order to help them navigate.
For reaching the destination location, a visually-impaired person may need to figure out the what the source (starting) location is, walk in the hallway, turn at the right place, continue to walk, and stop at the destination location. Safety is an important concern, which implies that detecting obstacles and avoiding collisions is crucial to the success of this smartphone app. The time that it takes to reach the destination might also be a concern, especially if there isn't much time available to reach the destination. Familiarity with the route to be taken may also be a concern, among other things.
For this smartphone app, the domain will be indoors, which can consist of multiple floors with each floor hosting a variety of different rooms (classrooms, labs, offices, etc.).
Requirements Analysis & Design You've already conducted a workshop to determine some of the information that would need to be turned into requirements. The information you've gathered is as follows:
- Detecting obstacles and telling the user what to do to avoid collision.
- Placing emergency calls and messages if a fall is detected.
- Telling the user to walk a certain distance.
- Telling the user to stop at the right place to turn.
- Help the user navigate safely indoors.
- Help the user navigate the fastest route to their destination.
- Customizable to every user (volume, the interval at which the system says something, etc.) Your Project Manager has informed you that the name of the app is Theia - the Greek goddess of vision.
A description of your proposed change control process.
- A list of roles and responsibilities of the team members who will participate in the change control activities.
- A diagram that identifies how a change will pass through the life cycle.
- Research a change control/issue tracking software tool that can help manage changes within a project and report on the positive and negative aspects of the tool.
- A brief summary of the benefits of a change control process. You may choose to use a more formal Change Control Process document and tweak it to meet your needs for the assessment. But I'm leaving this assessment more open-ended for you to focus more on the change control process itself and not the formatting of a specific document