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Project 4 Project Plan - Morning Star Dance Website

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Overview :

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The morningstardance.com website is owned by Morningstar Dance Academy. Morningstar Dance Academy needs a new mobile friendly website. The current website is outdated and does not function well. The new website should serve as a hub of all information and integrate with current social media. The team will evaluate and suggest a new platform, and then design/develop a website using the platform. 

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Project Team :

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Project owner / Sponsor 

 Morningstar Dance Academy. 

Provide project details; act as a resource for specifics on deliverables; critique milestones and final project. 

 

 

Team leader:

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Tranard Adamson 

Facilitate member responsibilities; coordinate meetings; ensure timely submission of project milestones. 

Establish communications between group and Professor.  

tadamso2@students.kennesaw.edu 

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Team Members:

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Alicia Bradley 

Technical Writer, Documenter and Reporter.  

abradl51@students.kennesaw.edu 

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Jack Lundstrom 

Data Analyst, Research and Development. Tech Writer.  

jlundst1@students.kennesaw.edu 

 

Jesse Taylor 

Design and Development Lead. 

Jtayl363@students.kennesaw.edu 

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Advisor / Instructor :

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Jack Zheng 

Facilitate project progress; advise on project planning and management. 

gzheng@kennesaw.edu 

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Project website 

https://4983capstone2021.wixsite.com/morningstardance 

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Final Deliverables 

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  • A working website to demonstrate the new site design. 

  • Mobile friendliness testing result (automated and manual). 

  • All source code and content packaged well so it can be easily moved or deployed to another system.  

  • Provide the instructions of migration and deployment. 

  • An instruction book for the business owner on how to maintain the website and update content in the future. 

  • Documentation of site map (structure), folder or file structure, style/library references, etc. 

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Milestones :

#1 - By 9/23/2021 

  • Discovery Phase Complete 

  • Design Prototype website 1 for initial review.  

  • Collecting Images and Text from current website, Chose theme and website color.  

  • Create URL page for Reference. 

  • Create Website layout and functionality.  

  • Add Menu and Decide on website pages. 

  • Create Trial account creation for Morningstar guests and customers.  

  • Preliminary Website Design complete – Menu and Pages 

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#2 - By 10/17/2021 

  • Website Design and framework Complete 

  • Review previous work period from milestone #1 into milestone #2. 

  • Finalize website theme and design 

  • Check website functionality and workload processing.  

  • Reevaluate customer portal or potential guest users.  

  • Redesign and correction of website display (menu, link, and images) through WIX 

  • Testing web application interfaces (rearrange/debugging) 

  • Team communication 

  • Status of Gantt Chart.  

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#3 - By 11/23/2021 

  • Website Complete 

  • Desktop and Mobile site testing complete 

  • Completion of documentation, Gannt Chart, Website widget 

  • Final Testing.  

  • Presentation 

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Future milestone meetings date/time 

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Weekly Group Meetings will be conducted. Starting the week of 9/6/2021. 

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The team will meet every Tuesday and Sunday @ 7PM:

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  • 9/7/2021 Tuesday 

  • 9/12/2021 Sunday 

  • 9/14/2021 Tuesday 

  • 9/19/2021 Sunday 

  • 9/21/2021 Tuesday 

  • 9/26/2021 Sunday 

  • 9/28/2021 Tuesday 

  • 10/3/2021  Sunday

  • 10/5/2021  Tuesday

  • 10/9/2021 Sunday

  • 10/12/2021 Tuesday

  • 10/17/2021 Sunday

  • 10/19/2021 Tuesday

  • 10/24/2021 Sunday

  • 10/26/2021 Tuesday

  • 10/31/2021 Sunday

  • 11/2/2021  Tuesday

  • 11/7/2021   Sunday

  • 11/16/2021  Tuesday

  • 11/21/2021  Sunday

  • 11/30/2021 Tuesday

  • 12/5/2021 Sunday

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Collaboration and Communication Plan :

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All group collaboration will be through Microsoft Teams, Group Chat text, as well as Google Drive. Team 3 will also hold weekly meetings on Tuesday and Sunday to guarantee that objectives and tasks are being completed in a timely manner. Group Leader Tranard will also have open communications with the Professor and Morningstar Dance Academy Sponsor. 

Project Schedule and Tasks Planning 

Scheduling and Workload chart attached.  

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[Other planning]  

  • Risk of customer issues 

  • Potential Setbacks due to technical issues. 

  • Meeting Minutes tracking log 

  • Further planning will be added at meeting dates and during milestone checks.  

©2021 by IT 4983 Capstone | Project 4 Team 3

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