🌱 Community Garden Planner - Elicitation Questions

Created by: Bahadır
Date: 26.02.2025

This document outlines a set of elicitation questions designed to gather essential requirements, expectations and insights from stakeholders for the successful planning and development of the project.

User-Centered Questions

• How do people currently manage gardening tasks in the community?
• What features would help make gardening collaboration easier?
• Would a user prefer a mobile app, a web platform or both?
• Does the user want reminders to be sent via email, SMS or in-app notifications?
• Who are the primary users of the system? (Casual gardeners, experienced volunteers, municipal workers, etc.)
• How frequently do users engage in gardening activities, and how might this affect their use of the system?
• What information should be included in a user profile, and which details should members be able to edit?

Task & Feature-Oriented Questions

• What kind of gardening tasks should the system support (e.g. watering, pruning)?
• How would the user like to track task progress (e.g. checklists, visual timeline)?
• Would the user like integration with weather forecasts for gardening reminders?
• Should the forum allow attachments (e.g. images of plants, documents)?
• What kind of interactions between users should be included?
• Can users freely access any garden, or do they need an invitation or approval?
• Should there be a garden history log to track past activities and contributions?
• Should the users be granted ranks/classes according to their experience/profession?
• Should there be a feature to schedule group gardening sessions or events?
• Should the system support reminders for specific tasks based on plant growth cycles?
• How should the relationship between users and gardens be structured? Can members participate in multiple gardens, or are they assigned to a single garden?
• Should maintenance tasks be pre-assigned by administrators, or should users have the flexibility to create their own tasks?
• How should task deadlines be managed? Will there be fixed deadlines or flexible scheduling options?

Technical & Security Questions

• Should the system require user authentication and role-based permissions?
• Would offline access be necessary?
• Should there be an option for exporting gardening data?
• How much and what kind of data is required from the user?
• What kind of information of a user should be visible to another?
• Should the system support data backups and recovery in case of accidental deletion?
• Should user activity logs be maintained for tracking potential misuse or security breaches?
• How should system performance be optimized for different device types?
• How should the transition from a regular member to an admin be handled? What permissions should an admin have?
• Will the platform allow users to create their own communities, similar to Hay Day, where they become admins?
• How many admins should each garden have?
• Should there be a system-wide admin role?

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Reviewed by: İnan

Review date: 26.02.2025

Reviewed by: Burak Altunay

Review date: 26.02.2025

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Rest of the document outlines a set of elicitation questions designed to gather essential requirements and expectations. They were specifically added to address CMPE451 requirements such as W3C Standards. Questions were discussed at Customer Meeting.

Accessibility

• Which assistive technologies are most important for your target audience (screen readers, voice navigation, etc.)?
• Which accessibility preferences are most critical to provide at launch (font size, color contrast, language)?
• In which order should these preferences be implemented?
• Should image display include accessibility options (e.g., zoom, high-contrast filters)?
• Do we need to follow a specific ARIA design pattern library?

Engagement & Community Participation

• What types of user activities should earn badges or achievements (e.g., posting, completing tasks, helping others)?
• Which engagement features are most important for the community: likes, upvotes, reactions, or all of them?
• Who should be able to select the “best answer” ?

Notifications

• Which actions should trigger notifications?
• Are there any limitations or filters that should apply to notifications?

User Profiles & Impact

• What should be shown in impact summaries on user profiles (tasks completed, gardens joined, posts created)?

Language & Localization

• How many languages should be available for manual selection?
• Should features adapt based on user location?

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Reviewed by: Şimal Güven

Review date: 03.10.2025