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}

Design Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Agreement on approach for a separate website URL to existing RWE website. There will be a link/button from RWE site to uplift

2. Product metrics drafted Detailed out engage page & community feature requirements

3.Drafted Personal Information AssessmentConfirmed Propel New York as a future use case with Nabil Hitti

What we're doing this sprint

1. Taking our 3 designed sections to the next level of refinement, including designing across additional formats

2. Setting up and creating the materials for our first round of prototype design and usability testing

3. Refining our UX mapping and building on the existing content with stakeholders across teams

4. Continuing to plan and set up for other streams of testing taking place from the next sprint onwards

Tech Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Established a home for our code, devops pipeline, documentation and project management

2. Defined the requirements of the system that provides our content platform

3. Working with Design, validated our hypothesis content platform, and used it to build a multilingual content model that supports the ‘Learn’ one-pager

4. Carried out initial exploration of other candidate content platforms

What we're doing this sprint

1. Completing first draft of our Conceptual Solution Architecture

2. Completing Content Platform Choice analysis

3. Working to bring on 2 FE engineers

4. Close remaining infrastructure tickets with wider NG

5. Gain approval for our candidate vendor for notifications

6. Completing first part of ‘Learn’ page

Content Strat Pod

What we did last sprint

1. Agreement on approach for a separate website URL to existing RWE website.

2. There will be a link/button from RWE site to upliftProduct metrics drafted

3. Detailed out engage page & community feature requirements

4. Drafted Personal Information Assessment

5.Confirmed Propel New York as a future use case with Nabil Hitti

What we're doing this sprint

1. Refine & Iterate pages from a strategic, tech and user point of view

2. Complete 1st draft of CSA business sections

3. Iterate and confirm tech feasibility of product metrics, build out strategic metrics, and define role description for analytics resource

4. Progress URL identification and testing

5. Continue Personal Information discussions

Upcoming Sessions

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

MVP Sponsor (Will Hazelip) Check-in

22/06/2023 - 1.30 PM-2.30 PM (BST)
‍(8.30-9.30AM EST)

We are updating Will on the latest prototype and activities we’ve went through to build it.

-> We are also going to talk about the decisions we’ve taken along the way, validated them and flag any current or future risks challenging the delivery of the MVP.

-> We will align with the core team on Monday on attendance and refine the content

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

Sprint Review Meeting

23/06/2023 - 1.00-3.00 PM BST
‍(8.00-10.00AM EST)

We will review our sprint goal and outputs from the three pods, Engineering, Design and Content & Strategy.

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

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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