Pilot Project Conclusion (Tue Oct 2, lecture 7)
Review of the Pilot Project reports, and prepare for the term project; Third round Term project brainstorm

Homework due for today

Legend: : Participation | : Early | : PDF | : Team | : Zipped Legend: : Participation | : Early | : PDF | : Zipped

  1. Final Pilot Report: Review and finalize your Pilot Project Report with new or refined hypotheses. I’d like to see meaningful set of hypotheses. Identify your leap of faith hypotheses if possible. Try to get each of the other kinds of hypotheses.

    Here are some (useful and less useful) questions that you can think about: Who is the customer? Where can you find one? Where do they hang out? Do they have this problem? What products or services would work best? Does it make sense to limit it to a college? How often should deals be posted or updated? Should students be able to propose deals? Do they want an email alert or an app? Do they want to use messaging? Does the merchant want to collect information abou the customers?

    Try to validate as much as possible outside the building. You can use surveys, but also personal meetings, emails, facebook, searching through newsgroups and any of the other techniques we’ve discussed.

    Look at deliverables defined here: The Pilot Project. Team Deliverable: Finalized pilot project Report, as pdf

  1. Self and Peer Assessments: Assess your own and each of your teammates contribution to your team. Consider attendance and timeliness to the team meetings, contributions in words and deeds to the work and the deliverables, contribution to positivity and harmony, willingness to step in when things go wrong. Write up a brief justification of your assessment, one or two lines for each team member including yourself.

Put the team members in order from most positive to least positive. Give each one a number between 9 (most) and 1 (least) and don’t give two people the same number

Deliverable: Posted on latte as a pdf. It should be around 5-10 lines of text total. Failure to follow the format, or giving two students the same rating will lead to a loss of 20 points. Follow this format EXACTLY:

  Pierre Stone (me): Was present for all meetings, feels like I was the leader.
  Kept track of deliverables and wrote a major section of the report. - 7

  Oleana Root: Pretty good, tried hard to help and was reliable. Good worker. - 5

  Ronin Oscar: My partner who was as reliable and had a lot of key ideas. 
  Figured out the pricing model and did a great job on the mockup. - 4

  Chris Abelson: Missed so many meetings, even when promised didn’t show up.
  Nice person though - 2

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Term Projects

Next week will begin working on the term projects. You have been working on ideas in many different ways. We (the TAs and I) have gone through the ideas, sorted them, combined similar ones. Today we will decide on the projects we will be pursuing and also the formation of the teams.

  • Term Project

  • We will settle on teams and projects today!
  • 4 students per team. No exceptions!
  • Look at our summaries of the best ideas
  • Add anything to the list that’s been left off

What to do this coming week