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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 5 months ago
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Simranjit Kaur wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 5 months ago
There has been a lot of speculation over Beats acquisition by Apple. Apple paid almost $3 billion to acquire Beats and according to a recent interview with Apple’s CEO Tim Cook it was the human curation feature of Beats that sold Beats to him. But this seems like a stretch. Market leaders in music streaming such as Spotify and Songza offer the same experience as Beats. Also, Apple has not been promoting Beats streaming service in its upcoming products. So one has to ask if Apple bought beats for the charisma of its founders, Dr. Dre and Iovine, and their strategy behind selling Beats headphones. Beats has been successful in selling grossly overpriced, mediocre headphones as a fashion statement and it seems like Apple needed that to promote its upcoming flagship products like the Apple watch.
Do you think that apple needed a marketing strategy similar to Beats to sell technologically modest but inexplicably attractive “Apple Watch”?
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Allen G. Dowling wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 5 months ago
It has been a long fought battle, but the FCC has finally made Internet a utility that falls under their jurisdiction. The fallout of this is the support of net neutrality. For those that are unaware, Net […]
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Allen G. Dowling wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 5 months ago
An article like this clearly demonstrates the power of social media. From a poorly composed product shot, and a post on Tumblr to a massive reaction by multiple forms and even news organizations, “The dress” […]
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Simranjit Kaur wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 5 months ago
Upstream testing is the latest testing methodology which is being widely adopted by large software companies to achieve better quality of product developed by them. It is a need-based and result oriented implementation of test techniques. Upstream testing requires quick testing to prevent feature delays for further testing by downstream teams. Functional testing before code check-in, whitebox testing using internal frameworks, API testing are some of the innovative testing techniques implemented by testing experts. Upstream testing is intended to cater to the business challenges in product development such as limited unit testing, insufficient time for testing teams, avoid regression issues and lack of automated techniques for repetitive functional testing. Upstream testing techniques are generally implemented using tools such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium and In-house developed frameworks.
Do you think investing in implementation of Upstream Testing techniques within product development cycle really provides the return on investment by offering better quality of end product?
http://www.mindtree.com/sites/default/files/mindtree-brochures-upstream-testing.pdf
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo changed their profile picture 9 years, 6 months ago
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Jada O Goodwin created the doc Progress Update – 2.10.15 9 years, 6 months ago
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Simranjit Kaur wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 6 months ago
Most of our class discussions till now have focused on IT structures, architecture and organization. This article relates to our course work and discusses about how many companies are missing the opportunities for leveraging new IT technologies to be more competitive. Most businesses today are caught in daily operational functions and not spending enough on planning for the future. The article explains how companies can compete today and prepare their business for tomorrow by focusing on the following:
IT assets
IT complexity
Innovation
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 6 months ago
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 6 months ago
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 6 months ago
Zach Ceheslsky-DeAngelo, Allen Dowling, Jada Goodwin, Simranjit Kaur and Andrew Tauskey make up Team 5.
Have you ever wanted to go out to eat with friends but couldn’t decide where to go? Tired of asking your wife, husband or significant other where they want to eat just to hear, “It doesn’t matter to me, where do you want to go?” Introducing a revolutionary new culinary app called Indecisive! Upon launching the app, the user is confronted with a short questionnaire used to establish some base search parameters. Each question helps Indecisive to narrow down your search just a little bit more. Questions vary from “how many people are you eating with?” to “is this a romantic date with your significant other?” After completing the questionnaire, the user is redirected to the customized search results. From there, the user can chose a “Yes”, “No”, or “Maybe” to narrow the list down. Indecisive also lists deals offered by restaurants in your area, as well as allowing users to comment on said restaurants and leave positive/negative feedback.
Indecisive is also a potentially lucrative app! Once Indecisive takes off and has a strong fan base, certain restaurants will be allowed to pay Indecisive to be the top of the search results.
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site MIS4596 Section 2 Spring 2015 9 years, 6 months ago
Before we start working on our projects and prototyping our apps, we should take a look at what currently exists on Google Play and iTunes. Why are some apps bustling with millions of users while others are digital ghost towns only populated by the developer’s family and friends? In the article “6 Reasons Why Nobody Uses Your App”, the author breaks down a recent presentation at Google’s I/O conference. The presentation, which is embedded as a video, attempts to answer one of the toughest questions of our time, “Why is nobody using my app?”
The reasons why people avoid your app are as follows:
You didn’t understand the problem
You asked your friends for advice
You listened instead of watched
You didn’t test your riskiest assumption
You had a “Bob the Builder” approach
You didn’t ask the right questionsI personally really liked this article and found a lot of the information to be invaluable. One thing that really stuck with me was that you have to talk to your actual users. Without their direct feedback, you will never understand what their needs are. The question I leave you with is, “Does your app actually solve a problem people truly care about?”
Let me know what you think.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033092/googles-6-reasons-why-nobody-uses-your-app
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I really liked this article as well. I think its a great thing to think about as we are all brainstorming and trying to come up with a solution to a business problem. As students and about to be professionals, this class is preparing us for the mindset and the work we could potentially encounter after we graduate. With that said, I think all the groups want their apps to be successful and actually be useful. My group is planning on creating an app that will (hopefully) make getting around the city to and from Temple a little easier. We are developing a car service app-similar to Uber- that will help Temple students get to places around the city that the subway may not be close to or provide an alternative if you do not have to take the subway. My group thinks there is a strong need for this solution, and having our audience as Temple students will make it easy to reach out and gauge different opinions on how to best execute our idea. Additionally, with Temple being in the city but not super close to a lot of popular attractions, I think getting around is an issue Temple students do care about and can greatly benefit from my group’s solution.
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That was a great article that will really help us when we begin building out our ideas into prototypes. I never thought of having users watch users instead of listen to them. I just assumed that having users take a poll would be a great way to get their ideas down and incorporate them in the app. It makes more sense now that people see how users use their app and take note of it. By letting a user test out your app they will have a ton of comments on where buttons should go or how they thought the app would function vs. how it actually did function.
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Bruce Hohne joined the group Hohne Sec 002 Group 1 9 years, 7 months ago
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site Zachary Cehelsky-DeAngelo 9 years, 8 months ago
This week we was the last week of our project. The BAs put together their presentation and finalized their prototype. The presentation was Wednesday and our team did amazing.
To prepare this week we held three […]
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site Zachary Cehelsky-DeAngelo 9 years, 9 months ago
This week was a pretty normal week. I continued work on deliverables for our project. I worked on the quality report and a little bit on our budget. Over the weekend our team held a meeting with all of our BAs, […]
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site Zachary Cehelsky-DeAngelo 9 years, 9 months ago
This week I worked with the BAs on our Justinmind prototype. The current prototype idea is an app that can transfer customer photos to the company intranet for future use. Although this is a very creative idea, I […]
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site Zachary Cehelsky-DeAngelo 9 years, 9 months ago
This week I met both with the BAs and PMs. In the BA meeting we talked about the prototype, and they showed me one of their early designs. Overall I think it is a good idea, but I am having trouble figuring out […]
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site Zachary Cehelsky-DeAngelo 9 years, 9 months ago
This week my team and I worked on creating a budget for our project. We were able to create a projected budget but we ran into a roadblock creating our actual. It turns out the BAs are not completely filling out […]
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Bruce Hohne changed their profile picture 9 years, 10 months ago
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Zachary Domitay Cehelsky-DeAngelo wrote a new post on the site Zachary Cehelsky-DeAngelo 9 years, 10 months ago
This week I worked on creating a RACI chart/matrix for our group. It was surprisingly harder than expected to create since many of our team members fell under multiple sections. In the end I ended up merging my […]
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I think it would be difficult for the Google Ara to make Apple Iphones obsolete. It is easy to use for people who are not accustomed to using smartphones and has a large following outside of that. However, I think people who have androids may be interested in an alternative. As you said, no one is truly satisfied with their phone. In addition, android users are usually more “tech-savvy” making them more likely to want the high resolution module and similar features that the rest of the population wouldn’t notice or really care about.