The following is a summary of how the scope of me application has changed after my seminar. While the seminar itself went well, there were a few concerns, mainly that I had taken on too much, so the following is how I’m decreasing the scope, and where I will focus that time and effort instead.
I was told to focus less on the more traditional and cumbersome parts of the application, such the following sections have been removed:
- The ability to categorise messages, tasks, files etc. No more tags or folders for files – Although useful, this functionality is nothing new and adds little value.
- Search – Although a very useful part of any application, especially one which stores large amounts of data, this also has to go. The time and effort which would need to be invested for an efficient search (which would probably just consist of a 3rd party library with a few modifications such as Zend Lucene) or a simple LIKE claused lookup provides too little value.
Other things may be removed over time where there is justification.
Instead, I will be focusing more on the innovative features. My supervisor and moderator where particularly interested in the idea of linked resources, so that will get some more attention.
