Portable Device Project
A tech savvy personal trainer has come to you asking you to set up a mobile training suite for her. She has contracted with someone to set up the fitness gear, but needs the technical gear set up by you. She definitely has some ideas, but above all she wants her computing needs to be met with things that are:
1. Portable
2. High Performance/Quality
3. Work well together
4. Can be used all over the US
She has a custom built “motorhome” type vehicle that contains the gear, a small area for a consultation office. She must travel from place to place in order to work with clients, and wants to be 100% self sufficient. In other words, she does NOT want to have to depend on the client’s wireless connection, power, etc. While she may USE those things, she doesn’t want to depend on them.
You sit down with her to ask her specific questions about her needs.
You need to gather information on what she has, what she wants to work with (types of computers/ devices), how she wants to set up networking, how she wants to set up storage, etc.
Task one:
Email her a list of questions asking her what she’s using, and determining her current and future needs. Be sure to ask her if there is anything she wants to have available to customers as well as use herself. Ask her about different technologies she might be aware of that you’re not. (Almost every industry will have technology that is solely used by them. Fitness is no different.)
Remember services as well. She’s not going to travel with a server and routers, etc. She’s going to want to be lean and mean, but she probably still wants a website and needs storage that is offline.
Don’t forget security! What if someone steals her mobile unit? What happens to the data?
Task two:
Create a list of current needs.
Task three:
Create a list of future needs. Email both of these lists to her to ensure you are meeting her needs. Since you are building something “new” and exciting, there isn’t going to be a package out there. You get to build it!
Task four:
Research items that will fulfill her needs.
Put together a mobile fitness technology package where all devices integrate together and talk to each other that meets all of her current needs and addresses her future needs.
Task five:
Type up a CLEAR description in paragraph form. Describe:
· The needs you determined together
· The devices you chose for her and how each one works. Include a picture of each device.
· The services your client will subscribe to.
· How each thing fulfills her needs
· Plans for the future
· Training plans
Task six:
Create a spreadsheet with all of the devices listed, all services, and include 45% on top of that for installation.
Task seven: You realize while you’re doing this that you could potentially package and sell this service to other trainers! Create a poster-sized advertisement with pictures of the devices, descriptions (bulleted points) and a total cost.
Rubric:
|
Task |
Excellent! |
Very good |
Pretty okay |
Sad |
Not included (zero on project) |
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Emailed a list of questions to the client. Ensured that you met all of her needs by emailing your list of future and current needs back to her for clarification. |
10 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
|
Created a list of current needs. Created a list of future needs. Lists are complete |
10 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
|
Cover page |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
|
Proposal written in paragraph form, completely describing each need and how each need is met |
20 |
16 |
14 |
10 |
0 |
|
Proposal includes description of how all devices work together. For example “The Bodybugg work with the Bluetooth on the iPad to communicate the current calorie burn to the user” |
20 |
16 |
14 |
10 |
0 |
|
Pictures of all devices |
10 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
|
Poster advertising the package |
10 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
|
Spreadsheet of total cost, including installation |
10 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
|
Presentation given in an appropriate manner |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
|
Total |
|
|
|
|
100 |