Helping P&TS verify campus parking permits

Our initial concept included functionality for both P&TS employees and students, including permit purchasing and citation appeals. We ultimately focused on the P&TS side after identifying limitations around issuing citations to vehicles that could not be matched to an owner in the database.

My contribution

• Created and edited the product vision statement

• Developed personas for Leah and Jasmine

• Wrote user stories and acceptance criteria

• Added user stories to the Scrum board

• Presented the personas, scenarios, and stories

The presentation identifies the personas as an experienced P&TS worker, a new P&TS worker, and a commuter student, with a core user story centered on efficiently checking whether a vehicle has a permit.

I worked on the initial and revised software architecture diagrams and presented the initial architecture to the class. As the product scope became more focused, the architecture evolved alongside it. 

The project included system context, container, and component diagrams, with initial and updated versions documenting that evolution.

My contribution

• Worked on initial and revised software architecture diagrams

• Presented the initial architecture

• Helped translate the product requirements into a technical structure

I worked on the application's user interface, including the login and results experience.

The high-fidelity prototype centered on the core workflow of checking a vehicle and returning whether its license plate was recognized.

The team implemented the scanner using Apple's Vision Framework and connected the application to a Google Sheets database. The prototype could identify a license plate and return a color-coded result based on whether the plate existed in the database.

I also helped consolidate a teammate's scanning code with the existing application code.

Throughout Sprint 1, I contributed to sprint planning, review, and retrospective activities. I also maintained completed user stories and retrospective takeaways in Trello.

The project ultimately kept the MVP intentionally focused on the scanner. Features such as multi-user authentication and permit purchasing remained outside the completed scope.