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Improved Room Booking / Event Management System
Description: This project will produce a new or enhanced room booking /event management system more suited to the use of the Forum as a major events venue
Deliverables: Either a new room booking / events management system or an enhanced version of our current room booking system
Customer: School
Case statement: The School's events team are finding that their jobs are being made harder by the lack of certain features in the current room booking system. We need to therefore either introduce a new room booking system which provides these features or add these features to our existing room booking system.
Status: The new system to be procured has been identified. Now waiting on decision on availability of funding
Timescales: We should allow two weeks for the initial investigation and evaluation of possible solutions. Timescales after that will vary depending on the solution chosen
Priority: High
Time: Allow two weeks for the initial system specification and solution investigation. Time needed after that will depend on the solution chosen (and may be run as a separate project).
Proposal: As implied above, we have thee options:
1) Use a commercial option authored, commissioned and supported by an outside agancy
2) Move to a new open source system commissioned and supported by ourselves
3) Enhance our existing room booking system
Each course of action has risks even assuming that suitable systems exist for 1) and 2), something which is by no means clear.
Resources: Depends on the final solution chosen. Should a commercial solution be chosen, the required resources may be restricted to the provision of appropriate hardware. Conversely, should an open source solution managed within the School be selected or should we opt to enhance the existing room booking system, a considerable amount of effort may be required.
Plan: Agree a specification for the new system with all concerned parties
Investigate open source solutions
Investigate commercial solutions, possibly going out to tender
Investigate effort required to have existing room booking system meet specification
Depending on outcome of above three investigations, select course to follow
Further planning will depend on option chosen
Dependencies: Input from the events management team
Risks: Not getting requirements clarified and agreed to from the very beginning of the project
Milestones
Proposed date | Achieved date | Name | Description |
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2010-11-26 | 2010-05-03 | agree specs | Reach agreement with all parties on the specification of the new system |
2011-01-28 | 2010-05-03 | Investigate com | Investigate possible commercial solutions for the new system |
2010-12-20 | 2010-05-03 | Investigate ope | Investigate possible open source solutions for the new system |
2010-12-20 | 2010-05-03 | Investigate exi | Investigate whether it would be possible to enhance the existing room booking system to meet the specification for the new system |
2011-02-18 | 2010-05-03 | make decision | Decide which course to follow in providing the new room booking / event management system |