ODT-0147 (StudiVZ)

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ODT-0147 (StudiVZ)

• Social Networking Best practices
• www.studivz.net

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Project Details

• StudiVZ is the largest and fastest growing
  student network in Europe. Launched in October
  2005, it is used today by 1,000,000 students in
  Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This
  represents 30 of all university students
  enrolled in these countries
• In September 2006, studiVZ was successfully
  introduced into further European lands such as
  Poland, France, Italy and Spain. The aim of the
  international strategy is to establish the
  network culture within European universities and
  schools and open up boundaries by providing a
  European wide communications platform

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Project Details

• Project Team (9 people)
• 1 project manager
• 1 technical lead
• 5 PHP developers
• 2 software testing specialists
• Technologies
• Development PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, CSS,
  MySQL, Apache, Memcached (object caching system),
  Sphinx (full-text search engine)
• Management MS Project, Jangal (custom change
  request management tool), Confluence WiKi
• Change Management Subversion
• Testing Mercury QuickTest, SilkPerformer

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Project Features

• Process specific
• Iteration planning
• Pair programming of complicated and mission
  critical features
• Regular Skype chats with the whole development
  team and the client for operative activities
  coordination and tasks clarification

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Project Features

• Product specific
• Multilanguage support
• Flexible features set configuration which allowed
  the team to create SchuelerVZ, a version of the
  project for high school students
• Distribution of database load between several
  servers on affected tables basis
• An asynchronous template generation engine
  integrated with the translation tool
• Automatic e-mail notification engine with a
  dedicated database and an SMTP server

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Iteration Planning

• The client creates a new iteration within the
  Jangal tool and adds a set of story cards with
  indicated priorities
• Story cards are estimated and assigned to
  developers
• The iteration plan is created in MS Project in
  accordance with Jangal
• When developers start working on a SC, they track
  the duration and remaining time on a regular
  basis
• When a SC is completed, its marked as
  Implemented, so QAs can start testing
• When testing is complete, the SC is marked as
  Tested (or Open if tests failed)
• An iteration is considered finished after all
  SCs are marked as Tested

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