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Team 2 Week 12 Blog

Team 2 Week 12 Blog   This week our beneficiary discovery continued to focus on deployment and user testing. We conducted A/B tests of program features, including a smart search bar, a calendar style training plan view, and an improved training card design.   Key Takeaways We received good feedback this week on some new […]

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Team 2 Week 11 Blog

Team 2 Week 11 Blog   This week we focused on testing a potential MVP feature-set for the Special Forces, a path for realizing revenue in the education market, how we would build the product and completing a site visit.   Key Takeaways Testing the proposed MVP revealed there was still ambiguity regarding the secrecy […]

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Team 2 Week 10 Blog

Team 2 Week 10 Blog   This week our beneficiary discovery revolved around continued testing on users stemming from a more developed, more usable prototype. We also began talking to folks in the technology sector of the battalion and private sector who could help us understand the building and roll out of our program.   […]

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Team 2 Week 9 Blog

Team 2 Week 9 Blog   This week our beneficiary discovered involved showing our prototype walkthrough video to our beneficiaries in 3rd group as well as other military personnel outside of 3rd group in the Army and Air Force.   Key takeaways Our program will save teams steps and time on researching historical data and […]

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Team 2 Week 8 Blog

Team 2 Week 8 Blog   This week our beneficiary discovery focused on A/B testing this week’s MVP and talking with internal problem solvers. We also continued to do some dual-use and outside user research.   Key takeaways: Removing data entry redundancy is high priority for making our product viable. The program essentially must be […]

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Team 2 Week 6 Blog

Team 2 Week 6 Blog   This week our beneficiary discovery focused on retesting new aspects of our MVP with contacts we already had interviewed and continuing to seek out civilian applications. Interview count this week: 8 Interview count last week: 17 Key takeaways: Civilians that we have interviewed are very excited about the potential […]

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Team 2 Week 5 Blog

Team 2 Week 5 Blog   This was a very successful week of beneficiary discovery. We stacked up 17 interviews and were able to talk with many ODA commanders, the beneficiary we have identified as most important. We further developed our MVP and presented it to members of 3rd group 2nd battalion on a site […]

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Team 2 Week 4 Blog

Team 2 Week 4 Blog   This week our beneficiary discovery focused on testing our new prototype, which developed significantly from last week.   Summary of Key Insights and Trends: We are on the right track with the MVP Negatives: implementation needs to be consistent across group in order for this to work, this could […]

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Team 2 Week 3 Blog

Team 2 Week 3 Blog   Our third week consisted of 22 interviews and our site visit to Ft. Bragg.   Summary of Key Insights and Trends: Commanders won’t let their units do a mission unprepared, but the process to get teams prepared is far more difficult due to the dearth of budget and resource […]

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Team 2 Week 2 Blog

Hacking for Defense Team 3 Week 2   Our second week beneficiary discovery focused on testing and receiving feedback on our MVP. Below, we list the interviews conducted this week and key takeaways from each.   Summary of Key Trends and Insights Battalion and Company level commanders and S4s note that resource allocation efficiency is […]

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