Stakeholders for Troop Tracker concept

From my previous post on helping my former troop, these are the possible stakeholders:

Scout Masters (Internal, Executive) - The Scout Master's main role is to guide scouts and make sure that they are learning and completing requirements to achieve their next rank. They can use this information to make sure that everyone is steadily advancing and that no one missed a requirement that will leave them further behind.

Scout Leaders (Internal, Operational) - They will be in charge of checking on the requirements most of the scouts are missing and planning classes or activities based the data.

Parents (External, Executive) - The parents of a scout are usually a driving force behind a scout's attendance at events or motivation. This will give them an easy way to keep track of their son's progress and of upcoming events.

I was also thinking it would be good to add a notification feature. If there is an upcoming event, it would send a reminder of the date, time, and meeting place. It could also give a checklist of things they might need to bring. There could also be an area where each boy could keep all the information they have on their Eagle Service project, things like estimated costs, volunteers, and meetings and what was discussed. This would create an easy way to present all the information when they have to show what they did at their Board of Review.

Welcome to the Twisted Treeline

Problem Description:
I play League of Legends with my friends and...well...we are decent. We created a team and currently we have about a 40% win/loss ratio. After a few losing streaks, we had a few talks about what we could try to win more games. Keeping track of what characters worked well with each other, practicing times, and item choices were all brought up.

System capabilities:

1. See stats of champions at different levels with different items
2. See what team compositions have the highest win rate
3. See what characters have the highest win rate
4. See what teams may have good synergy
5. Which players have good synergy
6. Sign up practice times

Business Benefits:

There are many sites that have bridges to the information that Riot Games (the company managing League of Legends) has put out to the public, but we formed our team to play in a 3 vs 3 format while most 3rd parties focus heavily on the 5 vs 5 format. I believe having a custom interface that can crunch numbers, track stats, and schedule games is a viable way to improve ourselves in the theoretical part of the game in-between the times we are practicing the technical part.

Homework Schedule Helper

Problem Description:
I've noticed that the farther I get in my education, the harder it gets to keep up with all of my homework assignments. With work, clubs, and social relationships keeping track of the assignments, reading, papers due dates, exam and quiz days... Not to mention when professors have so many different places to put their schedules, ie. Blackboard, Pipeline, edxEdge, keeping track of everything can be difficult and time consuming. I propose an application that send the use reminders to update a list of scheduled assignments, keep track of which assignments are completed, and possibly facilitate study sessions between classmates.

System capabilities:

1. Send reminders to update class assignments
2. Order assignments by priority
3. Store links or documents to find assignments more quickly
4. Find others who are taking the same classes
5. Store potential times for study

Business Benefits:

This idea was actually born a couple of days ago when I looked at the Blackboard page for my biology class and realized that I had missed an assignment right after I was reminded I needed to start on a paper for my history class. I'm hoping that centralizing my tasks in a place like this will help me organize my classes and give me less stress in the long run.

Hopefully I'd at least get really strong back muscles.

Supporting my (Boy Scout) troops

Problem Description:
In the Boy Scout Troop I was in, we had many members who would stay at the same rank for a long time. This was for a variety of reasons, the most prominent being a lack of a centralized database that held what requirements the members needed to achieve their next rank. If there was single place a scout leader could look to find who was close to getting the next rank and who was falling behind, the troop could then be more organized in planning meetings, classes, and camps.

System capabilities:

1. Show a timeline of the scouts achievements in his rank.
2. Show a timeline of the scout's rank while a member of the troop
3. List all requirements to achieve the next rank
4. Show a list of possible ideas for their Eagle Service project
5. Keep track of all events they have attended
6. Show what leadership positions they have held and at what date

Business Benefits:

My dad is still involved with the troop and I'll be seeing him this weekend. I'll bring this idea up to him and see if he thinks it would be a good idea. It has been a while since I was in the troop so there are probably a lot of other things that would increase the app's usability.

First Time on the Rails

Learning to program at HPU has never really inspired me to go out and learn a language besides Java. Everything that we did, all the data structures we learned, all the conventions that were drilled into us: it never seemed necessary to put work into learning another language when we had invested so much into the first. I mean sure, I COULD learn another language. I would just have to remember the concepts I learned in my Java classes and I would be fine. Then last year happened. I watched one of my friends build a website in PHP and create a game for class in C. I listened to him talk about the problems he was having with each language, the useful things he found, and the problems he would have if he used Java.

So I've resigned myself to learning another language. The work I've done on the Code Academy website gives me some hope though. I always thought that the hardest part of learning a new language would be learning the new syntax. Assembly was a painful and SQL had so many commands to learn. Ruby had a few key words that are similar to Java and seems to have an even easier syntax. Maybe this new language will teach me not to be afraid to go out and something totally new. And if I end up hating Ruby, maybe I'll just print out this picture, throw a dart at it and learn what ever language it landed on.

Hmm...well, learning Fortran can't be too bad can it?...Wikipedia says there will be a new revision out in 2015 so maybe I'll just wait for that.

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