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Seasia used a modified form of the Custom Development Methodology
(CDM) to develop CPS's high visibility project.The constraint in time did not favor information acquisition in a
traditional manner; so help was obtained from two other vendors who had similar off-the-shelf systems, to explain
the functionality.
Additionally, Seasia hired and worked with a web design firm to
design the graphics and layout and a technical writer to create the documentation. This rapid development effort yielded
over 100 bug-free dynamically generated web pages in less than two months of development time. The system involved
creation of a project in one of two ways (a wizard view, and an outline view), adding tasks, quizzes, and activities to
those projects (including the ability to upload any kind of document they wanted into the system), a messaging center
for communication between teachers and students, a library where teachers could store resources |
(documents, images, web links) , an administration center where teachers
could create classes and groups of students, and a submission wizard to allow students to submit their work to these
projects.
Seasia's detailed knowledge of Oracle and web development,
combined with prior experience allowed Seasia to have this system ready for teacher training prior to the beginning
of the school year.
Current status
Using an advanced methodology, relying on its experience, and working extra hard allowed Seasia to
develop a modular approach by which a screen was taken from design to database and made dynamic (all navigation,
inserts, updates, deletes, etc.) in less than 4 hours. The system was tested by 6000 students in 30 schools. Its
success launched the application system wide to 450,000 students in 600 schools. |
