Solar Tech
Chuck Hess, CEO
Jamie Tofte, CFO
Christina Cruz, CTO
“We are a nationwide chain of vineyards, dedicated to producing the only the
highest quality wine grapes and wine varieties.”
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Chemical/fertilization schedule
Water levels/soil moisture content
PH levels
Equipment maintenance
Budgeting and finances
Input/output
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Is it possible to create a customized program?
How does one find a reliable source to develop the software?
What will be the cost?
Will software training be needed?
Pros and cons of a customized product vs. standardized product?
Is there currently a program on the market that will meet the needs?
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Can be compared to Software Engineering
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Combination of Marketing, and Computer Software
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Software Requirement Analysis
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Multiple divisions
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HR
Finance
Marketing
Crisis Management
Etc.
“…software product planning is critical to the development success and
absolutely requires knowledge of multiple disciplines”
-Alan M. Davis
User Need
Software Product
• Agile
• Rational Unified Process
(RUP)
• Cleanroom
• Waterfall
• Iterative
• Extreme Programming
• Rapid Application
(XP)
Development (RAD)
• Scrum
• Spiral
 Differing philosophy
 Differing models for differing projects
Implementation
Maintenance
Requirements
Verification
Design
Steps to implement a Waterfall Model:
1. Requirements
2. Design
3. Implementation
4. Verification
5. Maintenance
BENEFITS
DRAWBACKS
•Testing is inherent of every phase for
this method
•Oldest used paradigm
•The waterfall method is an enforced
discipline approach
•Inhibits flexibility
•It is document driven
•Customer only sees the working
version
• “Lightweight” method
• Family of development processes
BENEFITS
Each iteration passes through
the full development cycle
Lack of documents leads to
scrutinizing
Emphasizes face-to-face
communication
Completing in a specific time
frame, or budget, is difficult
Short time to develop software,
incremental
Video
DRAWBACKS
 Kent Beck, 1996
 Plan the project work based on 3 techniques
 User stories
 Time frame
 Prioritization
 Build the product based on user stories and show the
evolving product to the customer as soon as possible
 What the customer needs today
 Codes are written in pairs
 Shared ownership of the code
 Stresses customer satisfaction
 Team work is emphasized
 Improves software project in 4 ways:
 Communication
 Simplicity
 Feedback
 Courage
 “Incremental” method
 Use of iterations
 For each iteration, design modifications are made and
new functions are added
 “Daily builds”
 When to use
 Most of the requirements are known early, but still
expected to evolve
 Get basic functionality to the
market early
 New technology
Strengths
Weaknesses
Develop the major functions
first
Requires early definition of a
complete and fully functional
system to allow definition of
increments
Customers can respond to each
build
Requires good planning and
design
Can re-architect within limits to
accommodate new functionality
May build too many features to
use
 Enables programmers to build quickly
 Uses tools to build GUIs
 Visual Basic
 Delphi
 Does not have many of the setbacks of old
Pros
Cons
 Fast development
 Compromises
 Involves iterative
functionality
 Compromises
performance
development
 Emphasis on creating
prototypes
 Facilitates maintenance
Example
 Amphora Wine Log
 Database
 Reports
 Charts
 Container & Vineyard Maps
 Cross Platform
 Upgrades & Support
 Free Trial Version
 $39.95 for Full Version
 Other Vineyard
Management Software
 Vingrow
 Vintner's Advantage
 CropTrak
 The Winemaker's
 eSkye Vineyard
Database
 VinX2
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Management
PAM AusVit
PremiereVision
SureHarvest
Tiger Jill / Pocket Jill
Total Scout / Total
Ranch
Vineworks
 $350 - $7200
 Pooginook should see
which program can best
meet their needs
Easy to Find
Difficult to Find
 Development
 Relevant videos
philosophies
 Diagrams
 Explanations of models
 Definitions of jargon
 Available software for
Pooginook
 For more information look on our website about
available software and software development
techniques:
 solar-tech.pbwiki.com
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_development_philosophies
 http://blog.joomlatools.org/2008/02/open-development-approach.html
 http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/cmp/online/cs22l/waterfall_model.htm
 http://www.extremeprogramming.org/what.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/Rapid_Application_Development.html
 http://www.fermsoft.com/amphora/index.php
 http://www.winebusiness.com/referencelibrary/webarticle.cfm?dataId=43865
 http://www.dilbert.com/
 http://vinx2.net/videos/vinx2demo/
 http://youtube.com/watch?v=ALWHCUNU8Nw
 http://youtube.com/watch?v=VGUXMTeRSfU