Mini Project Planning with Agile
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
DESCRIPTION
- Company Background
SBM is a large IT company with offices all around the world. The company offers a wide range of products and services. One of the reasons for their success is their ability to invent and find new uses for the technology. SBM’s emerging technologies division is always monitoring new technology and figuring out ways in which it can serve the community. It oversees the Smart Weather project.
- Smart Weather
A product owner in the new technology division came up with the idea of creating a weather portal to provide weather-based services. The basic idea of the weather portal is to pull weather forecasts for any location from multiple public services and aggregate them for the common user. The data can be put to several uses.
The main system will comprise of a web portal and a set of apps available on all popular mobile operating systems. Apart from this, clients can ask for specific services or apps based on the data that is collated.
- Backlog for Main Portal
- Work Items
Integrate with number of publicly available weather services based on location
Detect location using GPS (if on a device) or IP
Create a schema for storing weather data based on location
Write logic for aggregating the data from multiple weather services
Provide severe weather advisory (push for app users)
Create placeholders for advertising on portal and app
Show current weather status
Show 5-day forecast by default
Link to 15-day forecast
Link to long-range forecast
Show satellite images on a map
Show time-lapse videos of satellite forecast
Make site responsive or accessible from mobiles and tablets
Publish API/services for client apps
Create apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Blackberry
Apart from creating, maintaining, and enhancing the main portal, there are several client projects that are lined up.
- Project 1 - BigBucks Café
BigBucks Café is a leading retail chain of premium coffee shops. They would like to use weather data to customize their products and manage their day-to-day operations. The backlog looks like this.
- Work Items
Integrate with the Smart Weather services to get store-specific weather data
Use weather data to decide advertising strategy – ice creams when the weather is hot, coffee when the weather is cold
Order supplies based on weather – more hot supplies during cold weather and more cold ones during hot or rainy weather
Map supply packages based on weather
Summer order – adjust quantities before placing the order and pick up the summer package
Winter order – adjust quantities before placing the order and pick up the winter package
Determine promotions and pricing based on weather
Project 2 - LeViva Life Insurance
LeViva life insurance is one of the world’s biggest insurers. The company would like to use weather data to serve its customers through an app. The backlog looks like this.
- Work Items
Integrate with the Smart Weather services to get location-specific weather data
Map health tips with weather
Provide health tips based on the weather
Allow users to report symptoms and ask for remedies
Allow one-click calling to a nurse or a nearby dispensary
Show the nearest pharmacy and dispensary on a map
Allow sponsored links – e.g. winter jackets during cold weather, flu medicines when pollen is high
Take the following steps to complete the project.
See Tasks in the attached file, it contains all informations
- Company Background
SBM is a large IT company with offices all around the world. The company offers a wide range of products and services. One of the reasons for their success is their ability to invent and find new uses for the technology. SBM’s emerging technologies division is always monitoring new technology and figuring out ways in which it can serve the community. It oversees the Smart Weather project.
- Smart Weather
A product owner in the new technology division came up with the idea of creating a weather portal to provide weather-based services. The basic idea of the weather portal is to pull weather forecasts for any location from multiple public services and aggregate them for the common user. The data can be put to several uses.
The main system will comprise of a web portal and a set of apps available on all popular mobile operating systems. Apart from this, clients can ask for specific services or apps based on the data that is collated.
- Backlog for Main Portal
- Work Items
Integrate with number of publicly available weather services based on location
Detect location using GPS (if on a device) or IP
Create a schema for storing weather data based on location
Write logic for aggregating the data from multiple weather services
Provide severe weather advisory (push for app users)
Create placeholders for advertising on portal and app
Show current weather status
Show 5-day forecast by default
Link to 15-day forecast
Link to long-range forecast
Show satellite images on a map
Show time-lapse videos of satellite forecast
Make site responsive or accessible from mobiles and tablets
Publish API/services for client apps
Create apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Blackberry
Apart from creating, maintaining, and enhancing the main portal, there are several client projects that are lined up.
- Project 1 - BigBucks Café
BigBucks Café is a leading retail chain of premium coffee shops. They would like to use weather data to customize their products and manage their day-to-day operations. The backlog looks like this.
- Work Items
Integrate with the Smart Weather services to get store-specific weather data
Use weather data to decide advertising strategy – ice creams when the weather is hot, coffee when the weather is cold
Order supplies based on weather – more hot supplies during cold weather and more cold ones during hot or rainy weather
Map supply packages based on weather
Summer order – adjust quantities before placing the order and pick up the summer package
Winter order – adjust quantities before placing the order and pick up the winter package
Determine promotions and pricing based on weather
Project 2 - LeViva Life Insurance
LeViva life insurance is one of the world’s biggest insurers. The company would like to use weather data to serve its customers through an app. The backlog looks like this.
- Work Items
Integrate with the Smart Weather services to get location-specific weather data
Map health tips with weather
Provide health tips based on the weather
Allow users to report symptoms and ask for remedies
Allow one-click calling to a nurse or a nearby dispensary
Show the nearest pharmacy and dispensary on a map
Allow sponsored links – e.g. winter jackets during cold weather, flu medicines when pollen is high
Take the following steps to complete the project.
See Tasks in the attached file, it contains all informations