Both sides collaborated for 5 weeks to define the solution before we could estimate the effort required. From Helios side we involved a business analyst, a technology architect and an interactive prototype designer.

Requirements Analysis

First we needed to understand the needs of different stakeholders involved in developing and running the platform or using it. Here are some of the statements received.

Funding Manager of a Charity Organization

"I need a platform where we can tell our project stories and update them during all the stages of the project for our donors, so that they can track the usage of their donated amount:

It should be easy to plan, schedule, edit and publish the information where it should work like a project management tool.

As a manager, it must be convenient to keep a track online of the project activities from one dashboard, so we save time and focus on what we are good at, which is serving the society.

It would be fantastic if I and my colleagues were able to submit project pictures or videos directly from the field to the website backend using our mobile phones."

Individual Donors

"I wish to give back to society in some way, big or small. But I need to know a few things so that I can donate without worrying:

I want to select a cause I truly believe in. It would help me take decisions if I had information on miscellaneous projects available at one place.

I want transparency, I want to track project activities to know how the project is really being implemented."

Corporate Donors

"We are part of society and wish to contribute in many ways. When selecting recipients of donations we look for:

Not-for-profit organizations and projects which align with our corporate values and beliefs.

Projects where we can track how the money is being used. This kind of transparency results in a trustworthy relationship.

Projects where we get the information we need to communicate to our stakeholders, employees and consumers what we do to support social causes.”

Favoraid Platform Manager:

"After conducting the survey and understanding what every type of donor needs, it was clear that we would need to develop a robust platform enabling all of our stakeholders to communicate and get information easily and for individuals and corporations to donate smoothly. In addition to this the platform should provide us with functions alerting us of any abuse in content and allowing us to efficiently distribute funds received from donors."

The Outcome

After 5 weeks we had developed:

The Solution

We had developed an interactive prototype of the following solution:

Selection of Technology and Architecture

We decided to go with







Estimate

We had defined development and test phases and estimated the respective resource requirements.