The general problems and pain points addressed by the Scheduler tool project are the following:

1. Provide a simple and reliable software tool to automatically generate schedules for Cal Poly's Computer Science department

2. Provide a safe and secure method for extracting data - classes taught, room availability, professors' names and credentials - from the school's databases and servers

3. Provide an efficient way to adopt and modify previous quarters' working schedules

4. Provide a scheduling algorithm to properly integrate with the PolyPlanner and PASS (Plan A Student Schedule)

5. Provide a way for administrators, professors, and students to view their schedules via different mediums (calendar view vs. course offerings)

Use Case #1: Administrators

1. Provide a way for departments to handle any and all existing room and course constraints

2. Provide a way for administrators to incorporate student evaluations when generating schedules

Use Case #2: Professors

1. Provide a way for professors to easily enter their preferences for what courses and at what times they want to teach

Use Case #3: Students

1. Provide a way for students to query their schedules and offer feedback based on their preferred courses and times

The primary focus of Scheduler is to engage completely in customer-driven developent and produce an efficient scheduling algorithm for Cal Poly's Computer Science and Software Engineering department.