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Team 7 Week 12 Progress Report
Questions For This Week What would a test run of the program look like outside USASOC? Who among our existing contacts can help us with another kind of test run? What does USASOC need from us to have a more complete timeline on deployment? To what extent will we need to be involved with USASOC […]
Team 7 Week 11 Progress Report
Questions For This Week What should our combined interface include? What is the range of opinions on what the division of labor between CDD and R&D should be? What would a test run of the program look like outside USASOC? Who among our existing contacts can help us with another kind of test run? What We […]
Team 7 Week 10 Progress Report
Questions for this Week Can we fully confirm/debunk our hypotheses from last week that required more feedback? For the forms that were confirmed useful – are we able to take the steps necessary to actually pull that data from its source? What will our first deployment test look like? Who will help us deploy the […]
Team 7 Week 8 Progress Report
Questions for this Week Is our input system more convenient than whatever people are doing now? What amount of limited information is even the most paranoid R&D employee willing to share freely? How can the search interface be condensed effectively? What kind of info should a condensed version display? What value can CDD deliver that […]
Team 7 Week 7 Progress Report
Questions for This Week MVP Applications: Is our tagging system effectively capturing key engagement details? Is our tagging input system intuitive? What information would beneficiaries submit using our form? Unit Dynamic: How can we ensure that R&D does not feel they are taking a major risk submitting their data to our system? What boundaries are necessary for […]
Team 7 Week 6 Progress Report
Questions for This Week MVP applications: Given the desire to find a point of contact through our system and assuming we can provide this point of contact, what other information would be helpful to see right away? Unit Dynamic: In what instances has CDD ‘overstepped its bounds?’ Does R&D’s recollection of these actions align with CDD’s justificaton? Is […]
Team 7 Week 5 Progress Report
Interviews (10/62) MSG Tom – Future Concepts – Subject Matter Expert Not sure what his most common search terms would be to find people who visited a given vendor or worked on a given capability. The information that eludes him, and that he’s most interested in, is identifying previous colleagues that had visited a specific […]
Team 7 Week 4 Progress Report
Interviews (10/52) MSG Edward – Network Operations Available databases include: rudimentary Request for Orders forms, inventory management, CDD purchases (buy try and procurements), O&M purchases. Every penny of government money has a receipt. There is a document somewhere proving someone spent that money. O&M Log Form request goes into a database as soon as you […]
Team 7 Week 3 Progress Report
Interviews (17/42, 21 total for weeks 2 and 3) Tim (Salesforce) Believes users will enter data if they believe it will make their life easier. Thinks unified adoption will require strong top down leadership. Believes it is advantageous when as much data remains unclassified as possible. Salesforce has some experience working with other SOCOM divisions […]
Team 7 Progress Report – Week 2 (Base Visit Week)
This week is base visit week and given our discoveries about the size of the workflow last week it has given us an opportunity to make sure we truly understand the organization, the processes they are concerned about, and key differences between the various groups that fill similar functions in different commodity areas. Customer Interviews […]
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