CS4760 Team 5: 5upply Lads Users

Important Stakeholders:

Developers

The developers are the undergraduate students of our team. The developers’ responsibility is to create an application that simulates the Upper Peninsula copper supply chain that is educational and intuitive for middle and high school students. Other responsibilities include keeping in contact with the scientists with updates in the application’s design and asking questions for clarity when needed.

Consultant

The consultant is the graduate student of our team, primarily concerned with keeping the application the developers are designing usable. Another responsibility also includes providing analysis of the application and feedback to the development team.

Primary Users:

Middle school and high school students

These two primary users will mainly be the ones interacting with the application for learning purposes on how to model supply chains. The aim these users have for interacting with the application is to understand what variables and how adjusting them can impact the supply chain within the Upper Peninsula.  The supply chain primarily focuses on the local resource of the Upper Peninsula: copper. These users will be assumed to have novice experience in both economics and computers.

Secondary Users:

Scientist and scientist assistant - Leo Ureel II and Meara Pellar-Kosbar

Our application’s scientists are the users managing the expectations and ideas for this supply chain project. They are to be kept in-touch with updates, design choices, and to be asked questions if a specification of the application isn’t clear enough. They are also responsible for communicating any primary user concerns.

Middle school and high school teachers

These secondary users act as support to their students and to introduce them to the application. Nudging students to use it as a tool to enhance their learning. These users will mainly use the application personally for grading their students and learning how to navigate through it so that they can help guide their students on how to use the application if questions arise. These users will also be assumed to have novice experience in computers, but expert experience in economics.