Algonquin College Wayfinder Proposal

Project Description:

Earlier this year, the Algonquin College School of Business recognized that difficulty navigating the Algonquin College Ottawa Campus was a serious issue for the Algonquin College community. The combination of the campus’s increasingly large size with the unintuitive layout for room numbering can cause difficulty for students, staff, and visitors in finding their destination.

Previously, a Room Finder Web Application existed, but it faced several challenges and was ultimately shut down. As such, our project team and one other project team were each assigned to analyze the issues that led to the failure of the original AC Room Finder and create a project proposal document outlining our suggestions for the creation of a new wayfinding application.

As part of our research, we contacted and conducted several interviews with key subject matter experts and the original AC Room Finder application creator. Through that research, we discovered the background and initial development process for the Room Finder. This was critical as it helped us determine the business case for a new Wayfinder application and helped us develop timeframes for the development of an application.

Learning more background information about the challenges and pitfalls that the Room Finder had not been able to overcome proved even more helpful in developing our proposal. This information helped us identify which threats to the project existed and would need to be addressed, as well as which obstacles existed exclusively due to the circumstances of the original project.

Using the information acquired through research and stakeholder interviews, we created project planning documents and our project proposal for submission to our Project Sponsor. The documents we prepared include high-level plans for Scope Management, Quality Management, Communications Management, and the Project Schedule.

The Project Proposal included summaries of the above components, information for Resource Management, Risk Management, and a cost summary for the development and maintenance of the application. We hope that this proposal and the documents that we prepared will help jump-start the creation of the Algonquin College Wayfinder Application.

We wish to thank our Project Sponsors and the Algonquin College School of Business for their support, and we look forward to presenting our proposal to the Executive Committee.

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