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Starting with draft milestones below and time lines and the list of software, start outlining specific tasks needed to get the milestones completed.
Draft Milestones:
10/09 |
Assemble/recruit team, gather requirements, thoroughly review |
1/10 |
Benchmark scalability and accuracy of existing tools, begin system |
4/10 |
Implementation begins |
1/11 |
Begin analysis on comprehensive gene family dataset (“marquee |
1/11 |
Begin user testing |
4/11 |
Submission of “marquee analysis”. Begin work on training materials |
7/11 |
Disseminate at workshops & conferencess |
User profiles
Develop user personas and scenarios based on items 1-5 below (from this document).
1. Problem Identification
Identify the high level domain problems that must be solved. What problem does the user have that leads them to use the potential product? For example, tree visualization is not the problem that a user has when they make use of a tree visualizer, rather, they have some scientific problem to solve and the visualizer is simply a tool. What are the problems they are trying to solve?
2. Persona Identification
Identify the relevant personas. Who are the people who will be using the system? What background will they bring with them? What kinds of problems will they be attempting to solve?
3. Persona - Problem Mapping
Which personas will use the system to solve which problems?
4. User Story Identification and Development:
We now know the personas and the problems and have mapped them together, next it is time to describe the user experience. For example, persona Doreen wants to solve problem B. What does her interaction with the system toward that end look like?
5. Product Identification:
Once the set of user stories is well understood, they can be grouped logically into products. A product is defined at the level of the user. What functionality makes sense to group together from a user perspective?