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LaunchNow is a digital platform that is made up of a mobile and web-based experience to provide middle and high school students with the right information and access to opportunities to prepare them for life after high school.

The product is a secure, integrated, multi-stakeholder platform that connects students, their parents, educators and the business community to core educational and career preparedness tools, planning resources and job experience opportunities. It connects local business leaders and educators to students and parents in addition to facilitating a high impact set of programs and services customized to each user.

 
Updated July 30, 2020

Updated July 30, 2020

 

This week’s accomplishments

  • Kicked off the design of the Student mobile experience.

  • Walked through the project timeline and set the order/priority for user discovery for Guidance Counselor and Employer

Next week’s plans and goals

  • PROJECT: Demo Student prototype and get feedback from Claudia

  • PROJECT: Confirm the MOU terms and details from Epping to ensure that we understand any infrastructure constraints ahead of development

  • STUDENT: Create a list (10) of students who are willing to provide remote review and comments on the Student mobile app

  • STUDENT: Draft the user testing protocol for the Student users

  • EMPLOYER: Find out from Melorah (and perhaps add’l research) the requirements and forms that an Employer must complete before legally being permitted to join the platform. Learnings from ELO may be relevant.

  • EMPLOYER: Create an early draft of an Employer campaign/presentation to create interest and commitment to joining the LaunchNow platform. Need a way to capture contact information from interested Employers. Perhaps a simple landing page? “launchnow.com/employersignup” for example

  • EMPLOYER: Draft a “Velvet Rope” cohort of Employers to review pre-release designs potentially available for feedback in late September.

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Action items and dependencies

  • Confirm with Claudia (and beta site) if the platform may be delivered from the cloud (rather than an on-prem solution)

  • Claudia to set up meeting with Melorah to discuss the Guidance Counselor and Employer journey and requirements

Issues & Roadblocks

  • None

Project Concerns

  • This will list out potential, future issues with way(s) to reduce or eliminate them.

Communication methods

  • Slack

    1. project channel for the quick exchange of ideas and questions

  • Microsoft Teams:

    1. weekly syncs

    2. cross-functional team meetings

    3. impromptu 1:1s

  • Trello

    1. action items

  • Google Docs

    1. user stories

    2. feature backlog

Meetings

  • Weekly Sync: Tuesdays at 2pm