Roadmap

Owned by Andrew Somervell
Last updated: 21-03-2020
2 min read

 

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