Description: XYZ is a website to which qualified individuals are encouraged to c
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Question
Description: XYZ is a website to which qualified individuals are encouraged to contribute information about the latest technology trends. Contributors may write original articles or comment on articles written by others.
XYZ wishes to encourage high-quality contributions by a wide range of contributors. For this purpose, it plans to extend its current computer system to provide incentives that will reward participation. The incentives are of four categories:
(a) Points for certain types of activity.
(b) Badges given as recognition of specific accomplishments.
(c) Rewards based on the quality and extent of contribution.
(d) Bonus rewards derived from the other three categories.
Based on above requirements provide followings:
1. Provide a plan for project maintenance.
Explanation / Answer
The XYZ is a popular website and it has contributors who share their articles or comments about other’s articles on this website.
The XYZ website wants to increase the number of contributors of this website and wants a good quality of the work done by all the contributors. There are several points which can be used to increase the number of contributors and quality of contribution which are shown as follows:
· This website could implement a referral scheme through a quiz. The website can conduct a quiz for all contributors and ask them to referral someone on their behalf. The number of contributors can be increased in this way.
· There should be a competition among all contributors such that if a contributor writes an article and the quality of that article will be rated by readers. The contributor who have scored the highest rating will get a good prize or reward.
· This scheme will encourage the high participation of contributors and increases the quality.
The project maintenance plan could be developed as follows:
The points which are important to make a project maintenance plan are given as follows:
· The introduction of the new system should be given with respect to the background study of existing system. This point will explain what new things will be added to the existing system.
· The second point will explain the roles and responsibilities of contributors. It will give the information about who are the end users and what are the activities handled by the contributors.
· The third point helps to manage the requirements of the project. It will divide big tasks into smaller tasks.
· The fourth point will emphasize on the overall cost of the project and how the project will be maintained in future.