CIS 375 Assignment 1
                           Fall 1997

     For your first assignment you will have an opportunity to 
develop a portion of a project planning document and estimate the 
effort required to produce your proposed system. You may work with 
a partner if you wish, but I need a written statement from each of 
you describing who did which portions of the assignment.

     The task you are to tackle is develop an e-mail list manager 
and distribution system for the CIS department faculty and staff. 
Your plan should also include a description of the effort involved 
to develop the user interface for this system.

     Unlike a full project plan, you will only need to include 
sections describing: project scope; project schedule (including 
deliverables, milestones, work breakdown structure, activity 
graph); project team organization and staff allocation plan; 
technical description of the system; project standards, 
procedures, and proposed methodologies; some type of quality 
assurance plan and estimated cost of the producing the system.

     You may assume that you can have several other people from 
the class, besides you and your lab partner, working on the 
project. You will need to summarize what capabilities each adds to 
the project team and how they will be utilized. A very talented 
person could be listed as part the several proposed project teams 
for purposes of this assignment.

     You are not required to do any programming of this system 
before you complete your project plan. In general, the CIS faculty 
and staff use either pine or Netscape e-mail lists. Faculty hate 
to type and are only willing to copy complete class lists to their 
address books. 

     Your written project plan is due three weeks from today. 
This is a very difficult assignment, do not put off starting it 
till the last minute. Please try to keep your resource estimates 
within the realm of reality for our campus.