Most of our mentor feedback happened last week during week 5 and is reported in the Week 5 blog post.
Here is a the feedback from our project management content mentor Barb:
Docs:
5 Groups:
Define a process group at the beginning - students may not know what this is - is it a group of people? do people have specific roles?
Define the role of a student Project Manager
Maybe define how this is different in an academic setting vs business.
Identify stakeholders:
Good so far - don't see anything missing. Maybe just work on some of the figures
Project management plan:
Can you make a figure/diagram that illustrates this: "This plan is designed to help create a defined path towards the execution, monitor and control and closing process. This plan will help guide you through the rest of the project so it’s important to set it up correctly."
That is a huge list - maybe first identify a baseline PMP for a student project - simplified. Then provide the full/extended list of included plans.
Templates:
Project management plan - are you going to have recommended or example text for each section? Or maybe bullet points for what should be included in each section?
Stakeholder organization chart - maybe explain why it is important to have it mapped out like this - what is the benefit? Maybe the explanation goes in the doc above and you link to it.
Team org chart - are you going to include a traditional org chart template for the team - similar to the stakeholder one?
A problem that we previously faced was getting a hold of our technical mentor Peter to go over the layout of our website. Our alternative was to contact Anthony Pinter who teaches Web at ATLAS. Luckily we got responses from both this week! We met with Anthony on Monday to go over the architecture of our website and how we should be routing our JSX files. After we established that we started our files and created our base website and have it in GitHub. After going over the Figma and our coding plan we got feedback that we seem to have a reasonable plan to finish on time.
Here is a link to our GitHub repo: https://github.com/ananyatandel/project-master
We are meeting with Peter on Tuesday, Feb 20 at 3pm during capstone to get feedback on our website. We will add this feedback to our Week 7 blog. The focus of this meeting will be to verify which components we need to make, how to reuse them for each page, as well as what state variables we need to establish.
Updated Figma Link for where we are implementing feedback from Round 1 user testing.
We decided to test at least 6 stakeholders each for our second round of user testing and collected their feedback. We kept 2 of the same interviewees from round 1 of user testing to see if they liked or disliked the changes that we made. We did user testing on our Pattern Library, Figma Prototype, PM Templates, and Educational Content. We conducted usability interviews where we asked the user to perform a series of tasks in a prototype as well as conducting a normal interview for the rest of our materials. We were able to cover all aspects on the technical side as well as aesthetics and UI/UX.
Users:
Annabell (from round 1)
Prisha
Shuchi
Key Takeaways from User Testing:
Sidebar is very convenient and easy to navigate.
Slight inconsistency in font sizes between different sections, but it's not a major issue.
Search button is in an awkward place; We should change its location.
Add a section for contact information of team members for easier communication in the project management plan.
Including a legend to explain symbols or colors would be helpful for templates.