MS Software Engineering Project Ideas II

Its time again  for students to find innovative projects. I am bombarded with emails from my students on this subject so here I am posting some of my ideas again. Feel free to discuss any with me.
I also posted few in my last Post on the subject. Some of them may have been chosen by my past students.


Project#1 - Measure productivity of your employees
It has been found that within few years:

• workers will collaborate 80% of their time
• work will flow seamlessly, fluidly, across fully connected and visible processes
• agility will become key performance metrics
• workers will evolve to be more client focused
• pro-active capabilities will be strengthend with predictive capabilities
• work will not be centered on an organization but on a community of people 
• batch processing will be forgotten, real time will be the norm

Create a tool/portal for employers to use various mathematical models to prduce some of the metrics discussed aove, so that employer can maximize productivity and employees can maximize skills and professional growth

Project#2 - Intra-networking tool

A tool/portal to allow your employees to network by:

•  pairing up for lunch  -    employees (executive or regular) sign up and system pairs them up for lunch together either at company cafeteria or outside restaurant (promotes openness and collaboration)
• pairing up for upcoming project - employees sign up with their interest and availability and system uses, technical skills as well as their social interaction data to pair them or group them for upcoming project
• pairing up for mentee/mentoring  

Project#3 - WomenRule
Gather data on executive leadership team of fortune 100 companies and visualize the gender participation

• same with fortune 500 companies
• do the same for other countries 
• come up on some cool analytics... which sector has highest participation of women and men etc...
• even go further by providing features and plug-ins for personality development, leadership training etc..