Resource:O'Reilly Spring 2022 Kata

Spotlight App for Diversity Cyber Council

Summary

The Spotlight App Project is a sustained effort to amass a coalition of nonprofits in order to address specific needs within the communities we serve by leveraging a centralized platform as the base of operations to collaborate and make a collective impact. The App is meant to solve the following problems:

• The decentralization and lack of support between nonprofits create gaps

of service and overall impact.

• The lack of visibility of nonprofit groups and offerings creates a barrier of

access to the people we aim to serve.

Actors

• Non-Profit
• Candidate
• Administrators

Functional Requirements

• The Platform must establish a way to incentivize engagement:
• sharing of resources
• collaboration, networking
• facilitating introductions, and partnerships

• The Platform must categorize/tag nonprofit support services to match candidate needs identified

in the on-boarding assessment to include but not limited to

• Resume Writing Services
• Interview Prep
• Free Business Attire
• Apprenticeship Program Registration
• Training Program Registration
• College & University Registration
• Free Grocery & Meal Services
• Discounted Rent & Housing Services
• Daycare/Child Care Services
• Mentorship/Career Advocate Services
• Tracking candidate progress
• Tracking engagement
• The Platform must provide a way to allow Non-Profits to publicize offerings to the platform that

can provide some level of automatic matching for Candidate requests

• The Platform allows offerings to contain rich text, links, and downloadable readable content

such as PDFs, but no other downloads.

• Each offering must support a certain list of properties (defined by the platform), such as name,

organization description, website, unique identifier (assigned by the Administrators) and other identification information.

• The Platform must provide both operational reports (number of candidate matches / period,

number of offerings / region, and so on) and analytical reports (projections of future desirable career paths, Offering gaps in a region based on demand, and so on) for use by Administrators.

Architecture characteristics

• End-User Ease of Use=Summary

The Spotlight App Project is a sustained effort to amass a coalition of nonprofits in order to address specific needs within the communities we serve by leveraging a centralized platform as the base of operations to collaborate and make a collective impact. The App is meant to solve the following problems:

• The decentralization and lack of support between nonprofits create gaps

of service and overall impact.

• The lack of visibility of nonprofit groups and offerings creates a barrier of

access to the people we aim to serve.

Actors

• Non-Profit
• Candidate
• Administrators

Functional Requirements

• The Platform must establish a way to incentivize engagement:
• sharing of resources
• collaboration, networking
• facilitating introductions, and partnerships

• The Platform must categorize/tag nonprofit support services to match candidate needs identified

in the on-boarding assessment to include but not limited to

• Resume Writing Services
• Interview Prep
• Free Business Attire
• Apprenticeship Program Registration
• Training Program Registration
• College & University Registration
• Free Grocery & Meal Services
• Discounted Rent & Housing Services
• Daycare/Child Care Services
• Mentorship/Career Advocate Services
• Tracking candidate progress
• Tracking engagement
• The Platform must provide a way to allow Non-Profits to publicize offerings to the platform that

can provide some level of automatic matching for Candidate requests

• The Platform allows offerings to contain rich text, links, and downloadable readable content

such as PDFs, but no other downloads.

• Each offering must support a certain list of properties (defined by the platform), such as name,

organization description, website, unique identifier (assigned by the Administrators) and other identification information.

• The Platform must provide both operational reports (number of candidate matches / period,

number of offerings / region, and so on) and analytical reports (projections of future desirable career paths, Offering gaps in a region based on demand, and so on) for use by Administrators.

Architecture characteristics

• End-User Ease of Use

Solutions List

Below there are the links to solutions produced by the teams that participated in the O'Reilly Spring 2022 architectural kata challenge:

1. Team PegasuZ First place
2. The Marmots Second place
3. The Global Variables Third place
4. Goal Diggers
5. Kamikaze Slayers
6. Arch8s
7. Shokunin
8. Wright Stuff