Project Summary:

Phase 1 of www.imeecoach.com is an online coaching system for golfers, their coaches and golf academies which allows the golf coach to manage their players remotely via video sharing and web-based training programs. Simply put, it's an online system that can help save the golf pro time, help your players achieve their best and help maintain existing coach/player relationship. It also helps coaches to access new players to build their roster of golf students. Features include;

• Academy Management Module

• Creation of Coach and Athlete profiles

• Assessment Centre

• Scheduling Coaching Sessions

• Payment Module

• Maintenance of Records of what was practiced

• Set up specific training modules and programmes – feedback

• Upload videos and photos of practice sessions

• Message Centre for Communication

Project Management and Delivery Methods:

The application was built over a period of 12 months delivered using the agile method with a series of 4 development sprints. Each sprint was seperated by a period of user testing and feedback which fed into the following sprints’ requirements. The clients team is led by a Project Manager who deals directly with the our Project Manager located in India, with an account management and escalation role based in Dublin. A full team of software developers are assigned to the project from Monsoon Consulting including;

• Project Manager

• Technical Architect

• UI Designer

• Software Development

• QA and Testing

• Hosting Adminsitrator (Cloud Computing)

With the application built and the fundamental architecture in place the task now is for the www.imeecoach.com team to sell the application to the golf market . With each new major academy sign up comes further enahancement to the application and we are now making the application ready for individual golf pro’s to use to manage their students and creating a means for delivery of stock training courses for golfers to purchase. Together we have begun to build the technology roadmap around the business requirements for 2010.

Technology:

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Zend Framework, Javascript , AJAX , jQuery, FFmpeg, Amazon Web Services (AWS, S3, EC2, EBS, ), JWPlayer