1. Top Risks and Prototypes
Team 7 NICE E-Commerce
Top Risks and Prototypes
Antonis Papantoniou, Larry Stratton,
Dhananjay Nakrani, Weijiang Dang,
Runxuan Wei, King Lun Au, Deb Baker

2. Top Risk/Prototype Presentation
Team 7 – NICE E-Commerce
Market for Natural Healthcare small businesses
E-Commerce Website for Multi-Vendor Listings
Vendors can include Blog posts and Video Blogs
Consumers can provide vendor ratings and feedback
Provide Discussion Forums for consumers and vendors to collaborate
Include secure payment, shipping, and international sales

3. Current Risks Rank Risk Description What causes the risk?
Risk Mitigation 1
COTS and other independently evolving systems
Different functionality that needs to be integrated
Confirm client requirements to match w/ tool 2
Architecture complexity, quality tradeoffs
Multiple tools required that may not interact fully
Explore tool capabilities; match developer with right tool 3
Customer-developer-user team cohesion
New member added late, some members still getting up to speed
Designate tasks, divide and conquer, break tasks into reasonable parts 4
Budget and schedule constraints
Project has expansive scope
Reducing scope with clients 5
Lack of domain knowledge
Some members are new to CS / come from different domains / have no web programming experience
USC library developer material for mentoring and learning web development frameworks, break tasks down into smaller tasks that can be led by more competent developers

4. Top Risks and Prototypes
Rank
Risk Description
Prototype
Why? 1
COTS and other independently evolving systems
xcart E-Commerce platform Prototype
xcart will provide a framework for required functionality which will save developing it manually 2
Architecture complexity, quality tradeoffs
xcart and WordPress Integration Prototype
xcart needs to integrate with WordPress to deliver the core functionality needed