Roadmap
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