Baseball Cards

Epicodus Internship Project for Artemis Connection, Inc., January 22, 2018

By Megan Olson, Linda Luu, Erik Zakrzrwski, Gennaro Anzalone, & L. Devin MacKrell

Description

This is a web based application for Artemis Connection, Inc. to view and sort employee and collaborator profiles. It has basic user authentication so that an individual can update their own baseball card, and only managers can update assigned project status, other details, and skills acquisition.

Installation and Setup

To install on your own machine, follow the instructions below:

• Clone this repository.

• Run the following commands in the project root directory:

  bundle update
  rake db:setup
  rails db:seed
  rails s
  

• Open localhost:3000 in your web browser of choice

• To give an account admin privileges:

  • In the project root run rails c
  • Then run:

    User.find_by(email: "[account email address]").update(admin: true)

  • The account will now have admin access to the app.

Live app

To view a live version of the app - visit: http://baseball-card-env.ppxiu8phdg.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com

Specifications

• Employees/Collaborators Features

  • View employee baseball cards (face & flip sides)
  • Edit/update their own baseball card
  • View project baseball cards
  • View, create, and update client baseball cards
  • View, create, and update contacts for client baseball cards

• Manager Features

  • Access all employees/collaborators baseball cards (face & flip sides)
  • Create and update skills on employees/collaborators baseball cards
  • View, create, and update 360 feedback for employee baseball cards
  • View, create, and update What Others Say (WOS) feedback for employee cards
  • View, create, and update client baseball cards
  • View, create, and update contacts for client baseball cards
  • View, create, and update project baseball cards

• Administrator Features

  • View, create, and update all employees/collaborators baseball cards
  • View, create, and update client baseball cards
  • View, create, and update contacts for client baseball cards
  • View, create, and update project baseball cards
  • ADMIN dashboard
    • View, create, and update all cards and classes
    • Approve user sign up requests
    • Provide and remove manager / admin access to a user
    • View, create, and update all user information
    • View, create, and update the following classes:
      • Industry experience,
      • Skills, and
      • Project roles

• Employee Baseball Cards

  • Card Face
    • Employees/Collaborators
      • All users may view baseball cards
      • Employees/Collaborators may create and update their personal baseball card with the following information:
        • Name
        • Title/ Position
        • Start Date
        • Personal Development Plan ?
        • Life Quote
        • Quote
        • Motto
        • Strengths:
          • Strengths finder (list of top 5 attributes)
          • Myers Briggs (input from assessment tool?):
            • Five letter Acronym
            • Percentage of each category
          • Birkman (input from assessment tool?)
        • Mission
        • Vision
        • Expectation (who employee wants to be at Artemis and what be expected of them)
        • Short Term Goal
        • Long Term Goal
        • Awesome Quality (what employee is great at and enjoys doing -- minimum list of 3)
        • Needs from others (how Artemis as a whole help employee develop)
        • Receiving Feedback
        • Development (what employee is already doing to develop self toward vision)
        • Area to Develop (reference skills chart): list three areas
        • Objective Setting (short-term -- 30-90 days -- tactical goals selected with Manager)
        • Personal Goals (limit 3)
      • Employee/Collaborator review skills list when filling out/ updating baseball card.
    • Manager
      • Managers view, add, edit, and delete employee baseball cards
      • Managers add, edit, and remove projects to/from employee baseball cards.
      • Managers update fields of information in category "What others say"
        • after birthdays,
        • monthly pulse shout outs, and
        • completion of project
        • pulse survey
    • Administrators
      • Admins view, add, edit, and delete their own baseball card
  • Card Flip Side
    • 360 Feedback
      • Managers view all 360 feedback on baseball cards including negative feedback
      • Employees/Collaborators view 360 feedback that’s considered positive
      • 360 feedback is automatically fed from google form - parsed from a google spreadsheet
    • What Others Say (WOS)
      • Employees view WOS of all baseball cards
      • Managers view, add, edit, and delete WOS of all employee baseball Cards
      • An abbreviated WOS is present on card flipside and be expanded for full detail
      • WOS is structured as an Occasion, which includes:
        • Date of Feedback
        • What event led to feedback. Types:
          • End of Project (feedback from client)
          • Birthday Quotes (collected from Artemis team before employee's birthday)
          • Pulse survey shout outs
        • Comments

• Project Baseball Cards

  • Project Title
  • Company (selected from available clients)
  • Start date
  • End date
  • Industry/ Project Type (select one or more)
  • Project Location
    • Country
    • State
    • City
  • Assign Employees / Collaborators (one or more) sorted by project role categories:
    • Interns
    • Analysts
    • Engagement Managers
    • Principals
    • Associates
    • Partners

• Client Baseball Cards (with Contacts)

  • Name
  • Company goals
  • Personal development goals
  • Future work opportunities
  • Once made, any user can add contacts to a client baseball card
    • Contacts
      • Name
      • Contact
      • Position
      • Meeting preferences
      • Email preferences
      • Communication format preferences
      • Other

• Initial login as Administrator (upon deployment)

  • SIGN UP with personal credentials
  • THEN Log in with seeded Admin credentials:

    Email: test@test.com
    Password: password
    

  • Navigate to the ADMIN panel via the navbar
  • Select Users from the left sidebar
  • Click the edit (pencil) next to user entry with personal credentials (should be top-most)
  • Select the checkbox for Superadmin role
  • Scroll to bottom of page and select checkbox for Approved
  • Click Save
  • Back in the User catalogue, click the delete (X) next to the bottom entry.
  • Confirm the deletion of the seeded Admin User.

• Adding users

  • Prospective users sign up on the login page.
  • An email for authorization will be automatically sent to the administrator that there is a user request pending.
  • The administrator will login to the site using the administrator login & password.
  • Navigating to the ADMIN Dashboard via the navigation bar, the Admin will select the Users tab located on the left sidebar.
  • The admin will click on the pencil icon (edit) to the right of the prospective user. (New user requests are added to the top of the list of users.)
  • The admin will have the option to add supervisor or administrator access to the user via Superadmin role or Supervisor role checkboxes, respectively. The User selection is automatically checked.
  • Scrolling to the bottom of the page, the admin will check the Approved before clicking the Save button.
  • The now approved user will be automatically notified via their email login that their access has been approved.
  • The user can now login to the site with their authorized login and password.

Known Bugs:

• Classes Company and Client are represented as Client and Contact on the UI.

Expanded Features for Future Development:

• Sorting employees to assign to projects based on: skills, industry experience, project roles, and location.
• Hierarchial sorting of more than one search term.
• Manager selects baseball cards to create a "hand", read: team.
• Manager shuffle deck for random team member selection.
• Mobile friendly app.
• Survey form flexibility (adding, deleting, updating question fields).
• Auto-populating of selected employee / collaborator in the New Project before submitting the form.
• Automatically add created project roles to the Project New Assign Employees field
• Thorough testing

Support and contact details

Please contact g.anzalone12@gmail.com, linda.luu1226@gmail.com, erik.zak.sf@gmail.com, meganannetteolson@yahoo.com, or ldmackrell@gmail.com with questions, comments, or issues.

Technologies Used

• Ruby
• Rails
• Bootstrap
• Devise
• Google forms
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Chartkick

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Linda Luu, Erik Zakrzrewski, Megan Olson, Gennaro Anzalone,& L. Devin MacKrell

This software is licensed under the MIT license.