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Scope Statement
Project Title: Operation Management – Learning System (OM-LS)

Date: 14.11.2008 - 20.11.2008

Prepared by:
Caglar Kara, Project Manager, 0555-713-81-09, karacaglar@hotmail.com
Erol Mesut Gün, Team Member, 0535-614-18-50, ziplak@gmail.com

Revised by:
Çağlar Kara (Project Manager)

Project Justification:

The Department Responsible of Software Development, M. T., has strong feelings and aims such as taking forward and taking steps for composing a system that allows end users to use a World Wide Web based computational tool for solving their Operation Management and Supply Chain Management problems over the Internet. İstanbul Bilgi University have strategic goals such as conveying pure information to student and other stakeholders of society and continuing its' rapid growth. In accordance with its' establishment procedure, university can not operate for profit making. While the university is delivering and sharing its’ knowledge to & with society, by not seeking profit, it may choose to fulfill its’ most prominent objective by refering either face-to-face education or distant education or both. Primary project objectives are serving a computational tool over the Internet by offering a suplementary system that helps to overcome Operation Management and Supply Chain Management problems. The project also aims to hinder energy waste of end users for extracting accurate information from messy sources, and instead of this wastage, it makes commitments about eliminating this energy wastage and leading to time saving by enabling edifying methodologies and referring suitable external academic sources. Beside that, cause of the projcets’ open source existence, system will reduce the costs for end users. Also it is important to finish this project before the deadline (Monday, May 18, 2009).

Product Characteristics and Requirements:

1.OM-LS will allow end users to register to system over the Internet.

2.Initially it is thought that end users can easily reach to the internet site by clicking the link under the Bilgi University domain. But it can change in the course of time.

3.OM-LS must be user friendly, and is needed to be clear and understandable

4.System must be helpful for the education but not directly educate the students. We assume that end users know about the operation management. But at this point, all we need to do is, to be helpful to students for learning operation management more efficiently.

5.System can be integrated with LMS (Learning Management System).

6.System will design for undergraduated junior (3rd grade) students to MBA ones. Beside this it will also satisfy the needs of Operation Management lectures.

7.In first step system will be in English but it can be multi-language (especially Turkish will be good).

8.Charts are required like EOQ (Economic Order Quantity). Charts should be easy to moderate to develop.

9.This will be an open source system.

10.Knowledge about our enrollee is required. We can gather info about them like their age, at which grade they are or this member is lecture or student etc. For providing this, there need to be a membership system so we need provide accounts to our users.

11.System has ability of integration with database.

12.System can have tools such as chat, messaging, whiteboard etc. although these are not primary requirements, if system has this kind of features, will add value to system.

13.In further steps, authorization to some end-users, such as lectures, can be given about building their own blogs under this system.

14.System should need to provide solutions of all these three methods: Simplex, Integer and Transportation. Limitations about the data entries are up to ourpreferences. While determining the limitations, it necessitates to check text books for problem size.

15.Programming language is up to us but customer suggests us to use JAVA for this system.

16.There are several LMS on the web site we can gather further information about them but Moodle and Blackboard are system that has close features that customer expect us to design.

Summary of Project Deliverables:

Project management-related deliverables: business case, charter, team contract, scope statement, WBS, schedule, cost baseline, status reports, final project presentation, final project report, lessons-learned report, and any other documents required to manage the project.
Product-related deliverables: research reports, design documents, software code, hardware, HTML interfaces, databases, etc.

1.Surveys must be done with M. A. (Customer), M. T. (Boss)nd potential users (students or people dealing with Operation Management tools) for determining what the requirements and expectations are from the project.

2.Searches about peer systems such as Moodle and Blackboard will be done to gain insights about Learning Management Systems (LMS).

3.Related documents such as WBS, Gantt charts and Use-cases will be prepared. Feedbacks will be gathered and for each document, we will be receiving the consent of customer. In the light of these feedbacks documents, and if it necessitates, the system will be reviewed.

4.Then Operation Management methods (simplex, transport and integer programming) will be examined in detailed way from various sources on the printed publications and over the Internet.

5.After the examination, Java code algorithms will be commenced to produce for each of the methods (simplex, transport and integer programming). In each phase, tests will be provided in order to avoid the potential end users’ dissatisfactions.

6.A database have to be acquired to maintain a system more properly. On hand database also can be evaluated, in case of compatibility.

7.Database will access to Java codes. Tests will be continued in this phase, too.

8.HTML interfaces will be designated, hyperlinks will be set amongst the pages. Sample questions, step-by-step question solutions, relevant academic papers and external links will be placed in the Internet site. In addition to that, system might have tools such as messaging, white boards, chat rooms, forums and etc. The design of the OM-LS site will comfort the ease of navigation.

9.Log-in / Log-off tabs and pages will be created.

10.For further steps, system will be made eligible to modifications in terms of codes and HTML interfaces.

11.The test plan will document how the OM-LS will be tested, who will do the testing and how bugs will be reported.

12.A project benefit plan will measure the satisfactory of the Customer and end users.


Project Success Criteria:

Our primary goal is to complete OM-LS (Operation Management – Learning System) until May 18th 2009. The most important thing here for us is putting a system into service that is accessory to students and / or people dealing with Operation Management. There are many books written to explain the system. However, when the matter is extracting accurate information from these various sources, “the rot set in”. Our system should be promising about timesaving by avoiding old craps’ time wasting, complicated and being far from educatory existence. Exact information has to be served in exact time periods. According to many researches, people are tended to comrehend visualized education methods rather than boring, long and “black and white” scripts. Therefore, OM-LS also commits to emphasize the pedogogic and didactic side of the job. To sum up, in case of wholly achievement of all these mentioned above components and composition of a system that offers an alternative to predetermined user group with their OM problems, then we will evaluate ourselves as successful.