1.2. System Personnel

The Grader project involves a variety of people, which can be broken down into:

  1. System End Users
  2. Paying Customers
  3. Administrative Users
  4. Project Managers
  5. Domain Experts
  6. System Analysts
  7. System Developers

The End Users that directly use the product are primarily instructors and students. Instructors can input grades, analyze grades, issue extra credit, and enforce a late policy. Students can view their own grades, compare their grades relative to the class, and predict minimum grade requirements.

Professor Fisher is the primary customer for the grader software. Other paying customers include interested administrators or instructors of schools or universities for distributed use, or even individual teachers.

Administrative users are responsible for the management of the physical department servers where grades are uploaded and saved. They can integrate existing grade infrastructure with the Grader tool and assign permissions among which users can view grades.

Professor Fisher and the team leader of Software Impalers, Justine Dunham manage the Grader project. They overlook the production of the Grader project and ensure a timely release.

Domain experts include instructors as well as students. Instructors have an idea how to make the most user friendly and efficient gradebook and students have expectations of how the gradebook should interact with them. These categories are experts because they extensively use a gradebook everyday. Other experts include administrators for their guidance of what features an electronic gradebook can include and what cannot be included.

The members of Software Impalers will analyze the requirements that the Grader software will run in. They consult with their primary customer, Professor Fisher, to record the specific requirements the software will take.

The developers are the members of Software Impalers, which are Justine Dunham, Arnav Murulidhar, Mustafa Khafateh, Kevin Ly, Torrin Smith, and Christine Pham.






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