Asynchronous Editing

Defintion:

• Team members will update the same document at different times.

Must Have

• The ability to write meta comments about documents

• Supports Annotations/Comments

Nice to Have

• Comment on Section as a whole

• Comment about a particular point

• Recommended revision

Document Management

Definition:

• Need to know who did what and what changed between edits.
• Customer accidently deletes important document.

Must Have

• The ability to track versions
• The ability to know who has the live document
• Support for both text and slide show documents
• Supports Document revisions/history

Nice to Have

• Integration with an editor

Meeting Scheduling

Definition:

• Customer needs to find open time when all team members are available.
• Multiple assignments with different deadlines

Must Have

• With tickler emails or notices
• With due date
• With assignment description
• Ability to task to multiple people
• Basic Assignment Status (Done or Not)

Nice to Have

• Assignment Tracking
• Ability to note functional dependencies

Team Networking/Expert Discovery

Definition:

• Team members need to locate or identify subject matter experts within the organization
• Ability to communicate ideas/tasks to team members to fully understand and prioritze tasks.
• Team discusses issues to discover solutions but it is same place different time.

Must Have

• Must ID participants
• Discussions must be persistent (non-volatile)
• Team presence
• With multiple threads/discussions available (but recommend using few)

Nice to Have

• Personalized profile page (considering a small group)

Knowledge Repository

Definition:

• Team members need to share references to information

Must Have

• Ability to comment on bookmorks and information
• Ability to document team knowledge

Nice to Have

• Abiliity to create team bookmarks
• Ability to tag bookmarks and information
• Ability to rate bookmarks and information

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