Key takeaways of the week

Key Updates

Security | Sunrise

10/3/2023

👟 Kicked off internally and further refined the sprint plan

📅 Booked in key sessions and meetings with project sponsors in week 4 and week 6

🔎 Aligned on our approach for user testing

🙍🏻Started the process for recruiting our qual and quant testing participants

✍🏽 Started building out the materials for our community user testing

📊 Built out an assumptions backlog to track and validate against throughout

📈 Begun to validate key value levers and drivers in order to begin building out the value case

Key Learnings

7 Roadblocks to Renewable Energy and How to Win Over Hearts

10/3/2023

7 Roadblocks to Renewable Energy and How to Win Over Hearts

🌱 7 reasons folks might say "nope" to renewable energy projects:

💸 01 Land value drama
🌳 02 Enviro worries
😷 03 Health scares
🗣️ 04 "Hey, let us in!" (public participation)
🌐 05 Tribal tiffs
💰 06 Money matters
🏛️ 07 Government goofs_{Source: Energy Policy}

🇨🇴 In Colombia, community acceptance probs have stalled projects for up to 3 years! 😮
‍_{Source: IEA 🤝}

To get people on board, try:
🖼️ Cool digital visuals
🚶🏻Field trips to the site
🤗 And remember, sharing is caring! (listen to concerns)
‍_{Source: CSE}

Upcoming Sessions

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Content Strategy Alignment

27/10/2023 & 03/11/2023
‍(15:00-15:30PM BST)
(10:00-10.30AM EST)

We will review WIP work to refine it together, get input and answers any questions or clarifications from the team.

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Fortnightly Progress Check-in

07/11/2023
(15:30-16:00PM BST)

We will play back progress over the fortnight to ensure product oversight and direction and provide an opportunity for feedback.

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Relevant links

Digital Roadmap Final Deliverable

Qual Board

Qual Playback Deck

Qual interviews recordings and Transcripts

Validation Phase Deliverable

Requirements Document

Prototype Walkthrough Video

Value Case Working File

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Tech Discovery Memo

Quant Survey Questions

We will also set up stations across the offices to showcase trends, demos, case studies and new immersive technologies

Testing Pod

What we did last sprint

1. We've created Alpha testing briefing packs and post-testing questionnaires that have been issued to all relevant testing groups (COSW Exec, NGV Digital, SE & Comms Team, Accenture Energy & Utilities Testers).
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2. We’ve run real-world testing scenarios with the SE & Comms team. Sharing Uplift Demo Training Guidance to review, followed by different community member personas. The live discussion sessions aimed to help practice community interactions, ahead of in-person events.

3. We have run training sessions with members of the SE team, to help prepare the team ahead of live testing with the New York and Melville offices, as well as attendance at the ACE NY event.

4. We’ve run training with team members who will have ownership over the backend CMS (Content Management System), ensuring they feel comfortable and confident on the platform.

5. We’ve prepped a Usertesting.com template to imagine the individual user experience journey, anticipating the next external usertesting.com survey, later this year.

What we're doing this sprint

1. We will be setting up for Alpha testing, including driving recruitment and creating materials.

2. We will continue our interviews with various members of the team to further explore the tool and how we can work to improve it.

3. We will run training with team members who will have ownership over the backend CMS (Content Management System), ensuring they feel comfortable and confident on the platform.

4. We will continue to collate the testing into a format that can be shared amongst the team.

Design Pod

What we did last sprint

1. NY / NJ Split – Audited the split into two separate websites and built out the requirements needed to make the split happen. Implemented a test site to verify the art of the possible.
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‍2. Landing Page – Finalized design of the page in the new brand and handed it off to Tech. Tweaks needed for mobile and multiple sites.
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‍3. Re-branding re-design – Began the process of rebranding the website to support the newly finished brand and building out the details of what needs to change beyon fonts and layout.
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‍4. 404 page handoff – completed design of 404 page in the new brand and handed it off to tech.

What we're doing this sprint
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1. Continuing re-design of all sections for the new brand.
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2. Continuing our commitment to resolve bugs and defects from our backlog of Jira tickets.
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3. Building out new feature ideation around:
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- Collating Community feedback that aims to improve the user experience, whilst keeping the technical complexity low.

- Visualisation 2.0- Moving from a 2D isometric illustration to a more comprehensive and realistic visualisation of our project.

Tech Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Released Alpha!
2. Investigation of Constant Contact integration
3. Investigation of how to distribute email from Get In Touch form
4. Identification of solution to deploying Sanity updates for each environment
5. Implemented new design for the legal and project footer
6. Implemented new design for Mythbuster
7. Implemented new design for Point of View
8. Modify Events Calendar to auto-expire events
9. Begin work on new Timeline designs
10. Triage and resolve identified security issues from scans.

What we're doing this sprint

1. Continuing activities to support Stage Gate E.
2. Complete Timeline redesign
3. Implement landing page as part of New York / New Jersey split
4. Constant Contact integration – development of new ‘Zero events’ form / integrate Register Interest form
5. Re-introduction of ‘Ask a question’ form with revised submission workflow
6. Create a branded 404 (not found) / 500 (error) page
7. Creation of a database to store persistent data Uplift may generate (poll results, Constant Contact security tokens)
8. Ongoing security triage and resolution of issues.

Content Strat Pod

What we did last sprint

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1. Refined and streamlined team structure and approach and aligned feature roadmap across upcoming phases
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2. Provided strategic & content direction on Beta feature development
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3. Continued to action content feedback from MVP Testing

4. Exec check-in held with Will, Michelle, & Alanna to playback progress to date, demo Alpha and provide a branding update

What we're doing this sprint

1. Continue to support requirements and definition of sprint design and development tickets

2. Continue v1 & further feature definition build out, such as jobs board and targeted community feedback feature

3. Review & action content feedback from Alpha testing

4. Support content teams in actioning New York / New Jersey split of content for Beta release

Brand Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Continued to test and refine our chosen brand identity- crafting the new name, logo, colour palette and visual design elements

2. Build out a Brand Guide and Design System, to help us effectively roll the new branding out across all of our end user touchpoints

What we're doing this sprint

1. Continuing legal conversations and conflict checks against our three frontrunning names

2. Beginning a light-touch brand rollout across our Alpha build (including new colours and fonts)

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NGV IV Workshop Pre-Read

Once again, we can’t tell you how excited we are to spend Thursday and Friday morning (and afternoon for the UK-based folks!) with you to workshop the Immersive Visualisation product.

We mentioned last week we would send a pre-read, which we have sent over in an email but is also linked below! Inside you’ll find:

⭐️ What to expect (objectives/agenda)
⭐️ Questions to consider in advance
⭐️ A summary of our qualitative testing learnings
⭐️ Hot off the press key quantitative testing results
⭐️ Value case / measurement work to date
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You may have seen some of this before - so we can make the best use of our time together, please do take a moment to digest the content if you haven’t yet done so and we’re happy to address any questions that come up in advance!

Our final ask is to please complete your individual profile here in advance.

NGV IV Workshop Pre-Read