Roadmap

Open

Phase 1: Feb 2020

Development

• Preproduction plan locked down

• Ticket list completed

Operations

• Plan on a page finished

• Product parties for the year planned and locked in

• Attempt to plan for 6 Code parties

• Partner relationship smoothening

Design

• Freeze visual design Done

• User flows finished Done

Success looks like all the planning for the year completed at an acceptable state

Field Trials: April 2020

Success looks like the field trials going smoothly with volunteers and teachers, with some good feedback to take back into the platform

Phase 2: June 2020

Operations

• Field trials in full swing

• Operational group running and in place to handle support

• Some corporate partners onboarded with some volunteers on the platform

• Reporting requirements for corporate partners understood

• Support team training materials complete

Comms & Marketing

• Progress updates on youtube all transcribed

• Copy review of the platform in progress

• Social media strategy

  • cadence established

• Comms strategy

  • language and approach worked out

• Ete strategy

  • Maximising impact on speaking circuit

Development

• Production platform running

• Stable launch in regions to support partner activities

• Improve open source contributor retention

Design

• Ensure volunteer and teacher retention, maximise stickiness 

Success looks like the first organically organised activities being run with healthy volunteer uptake

Phase 3: Jan 2021

Operations

• All schools in NZ who want to sign up onboarded

• 20 events run

• 10+ activities on the platform used

• 4 activity providers onboarded

• Automated reporting and stats - beautiful dashboards

• Preparing May 2021 - drop TEC out & preparing to take over operational support

• Start planning to go international

  • Samoa

  • Australia

• Start setting up business model - Funds from businesses for services - Moving towards financial sustainability

Comms & Marketing

• Te reo maori translation - Nice to have

Development

• Shoulder tap AI in production

• nudge functionality

• Production platform live

Design

• Maintain retention

• automated component testing

Awards

• Win Open sauce awards

• Win education awards

• Hi tech awards

Conferences

• Present VLY to a group outside of New Zealand

• Present at Government information systems confernece

• Present at Polyfest

• Present at Ulearn

Success looks like a stable platform, good user numbers, low churn rate, and winning ALLLLL the awards