In 2003, SharePoint was chosen to replace Lotus Notes as Microchip’s Intranet platform. The new Intranet site, Mchpweb, was introduced to the business users with modest beginnings as a simple portal that gave users access to different department sites and various service tools. As Microchip continued to grow in size, business unit, and function, more information was jumbled on existing pages, with the hope that providing a lot of different information would mean that something was relevant to someone. Not having a dedicated development team to release new and improved tools and the absence of an editorial group to provide relevant and current content information further hampered Mchpweb’s usability and user adoption. The following page is a partial screen shot of the current Mchpweb home page which could greatly benefit from better space utilization and more stylish content presentations.
##Getting Started ###-Calendar
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Jan. 21: First Meeting w/ Louise Tung, form the team, get brief introduce from Microchip
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Jan. 26: Second Meeting w/ Louise, show our drawing mockups, set time for next meeting, and goal
##To-do List
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Release 0.1 – Jan 29: Create mockups for
- Mchpweb Intranet site: determine template layout, look/feel style
- Acronym wiki page: page layout and features
- Conference room finder: page layout and features
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Release 0.2 – Feb 12:
- Determine tools to be used for the home page, wiki page, and conference room finder
- Set up accounts and development environment
- List Intranet home page components and groupings
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Release 0.3 – Feb 26:
- Create unpolished Mchpweb home page, wiki, and room finder
- Gather sample data for home page components, acronyms, and conference room listing/info, map
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Release 0.4 – Mar 12: Create a Youtube video to ????
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Release 0.5 – Mar 26:
- Features demo
- Determine components to keep for the final product
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Release 0.6 – Apr 9:
- Test and bug fix
- Documentation
- Determine and create test cases
- Run automated test cases (what type of automated test tool?)
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Release 1.0 – Apr 28:
- Final product demo
- Final demo and report documentation