Project Plan

Overview

This project for Georgia Tech Research Institute aims to develop an open-source IT management application that can be expanded later for developing IT department initiatives. Applications for managing IT projects are very limited. Most software on the market is too expensive for smaller firms or does not have all the functional tools to efficiently manage products. GTRI would like to develop a web application that is free to use or could potentially be licensed later by future groups or IT companies.


Project Team

Project owner:

Allison Boyle for Matthew Pinkston

Project Sponsor

email: aboyle10@kennesaw.edu

cell: (470)-578-5126


Team leader:

Sam Kharel

Team Lead

email: skharel@students.kennesaw.edu

cell: (404)-590-3081


Team members:

Jacob Hooker

Technical Writer

email: jhooker3@students.kennesaw.edu

cell: (678)471-5679


Kyle Hoganson

Technical Specialist

email: khogans1@students.kennesaw.edu

cell: 678-477-5894


Sky Kim

Technical Specialist

email: skim148@students.kennesaw.edu

cell; 832-312-3031


Robert Raheja

Technical Specialist

email: rraheja@students.kennesaw.edu

cell: 864-684-0925


Advisor / Instructor:

Donald Privitera

Facilitate project progress; advise on project planning and management.

email: dprivit2@kennesaw.edu


Project website

URL: https://sites.google.com/view/gtriitdashboard


Final Deliverables

#1 – Research Report By 2/17/2022

  • Research code repository (gitlab, github, etc.) the team will use to advance towards a minimum viable product

  • Front-end framework

  • Back-end framework

  • Database

  • Hosting

  • Language

#2 – Dashboard Design By 3/17/2022

  • Develop code that outlines the basic framework of the website. It should define the look, feel, functionality of the web application

  • Determine proper licensing model (MIT, GNU, GPL v2, etc.)

#3 – Tool Implementation By 4/14/2022

  • Base web application should support expansion of future tools

  • Tools should focus on managing an IT department and include licensing, asset tracking, budget management, self-service software configuration, issue management and ticketing


Future milestone meetings date/time

Project Sponsor Meetings: Every Wednesday 5-6 PM


Completed Team Meetings:

  • 1/26/2022

  • 2/3/2022

  • 2/11/2022

  • 2/15/2022

  • 2/24/2022

  • 3/04/2022

  • 3/14/2022

  • 3/18/2022

  • 3/24/2022

  • 3/25/2022

  • 3/26/2022

  • 3/30/2022

  • 3/31/2022

  • 4/06/2022

  • 4/07/2022

  • 4/11/2022

  • 4/13/2022

  • 4/15/2022

Future Project Group Meetings: Every Thursday at 8 p.m.(additional meetings to be coordinated through GroupMe)



Collaboration and Communication Plan

Our team will be communicating day-to-day through GroupMe. Here we can easily ask basic project questions and schedule meetings. Meetings and file sharing will be via Microsoft Teams. Whenever possible, files will be shared to allow live edits by all team members. We have established basic team-member availability as follows:


Member Name Availability

Jacob Hooker M-F evenings, Open Saturday and Sunday

Sam Kharel Open availability

Robert Raheja M-F evenings, best availability on the weekends

Sky Kim M, F, Open weekends

Kyle Hoganson M, Th, F, and weekends

Project Schedule and Tasks Planning

See the Gantt chart section.