COMP930 Fall 2024 Group Project Assignment

Overview: Student learning teams will develop a Power Platform solution for an industry sponsor that addresses a real-world business process.

Industry Sponsor: The student learning team is responsible for securing an industry sponsor. This sponsor can be anyone who uses or is responsible for a particular business process. For example, it could be an IT Manager, a Receptionist, a Volunteer Coordinator, a Police Officer, really anyone who is responsible for a particular business process. Any industry or organization can be used, whether it is a not-for-profit, government, volunteer organization, a church, as long as there is a definable business process that can be improved with Power Platform technology.

Power Platform Solution: The student learning team will develop a Power Platform solution that addresses the sponsor’s business process. This solution can employ Power Apps or Power Automate (or both!), and can use whatever data connectors are appropriate. Note that the solution is not required to be shared with the sponsor, though you are welcome to do so with the caveat that the sponsor will need their own Power Platform licensing to use your solution.

Real-World Business Process: The learning team’s solution should address a real-world business process employed by the sponsor. The process does not, and probably should not, be overly complex. Find something simple that would benefit from the advantages a Power Platform solution could provide: a common view of data, a tool for use on mobile devices, an automation of a repeatable process. The idea is that your team is adding value to the sponsor’s work, and is measured in how well your solution satisfies the requirements and how appropriate the solution is to the problem.

Tasks:

1.    Discovery: Meet with your sponsor and identify key business processes. Discuss if there are any that could be improved through the application of Power Platform technologies. Select a candidate process that you believe could best and most easily be improved by your team.

2.    Requirements Identification: Working with your sponsor, develop a list of functional requirements and non-functional requirements for the solution. Capture the way the business process currently works (step-by-step, flowcharts, etc.) and consider how the process might be optimized.

3.    Solution Design: Consider how your solution will meet the requirements. Create UI mock-ups or flow charts as appropriate (whether using Power Apps or Power Automate).

4.    Solution Implementation: Create your solution, following the design documents and identified requirements, in either Power Apps or Power Automate (or both). When complete, export your solution.

5.    Sponsor Review: Review your solution with the sponsor. Capture their feedback and any new or changed requirements.

6.    Present to Class: Your learning team will give a very brief presentation to the class on your project. This will be purely oral, no visual aids (we won’t have time). Simply tell us about your sponsor, their business process, how you addressed it, any feedback received, and any lessons learned. This should be less than 5 minutes.

Deliverables:

•    Requirements Documentation (Functional and Non-Function, Process documentation)
•    Design Documentation (UI mockups, flowcharts, etc)
•    Exported Power Platform Solution (Zip file)
•    Brief Presentation Submission:

•    Email your deliverables to sbryan@sl.on.ca no later than 11:59PM on Wednesday 13 December, 2024. Be sure to include all contributing group member names in the submission email.