What do you believe will be challenging about your current task work?)

We had a team meeting today to discuss task 4 proceeding and divided the work. While discussing, we made plans to meet with Dr. Warren for further clarification and instructions on task 4 as we felt that we could run into some issues if the task were not clear; our thoughts were to obtain a clearer picture of the overall task 4. Our team needs to implement a product plan for internet connectivity, solar power, wind energy systems, and Moodle software system. The product implementation plan also should mention how the product will be used and job aid for the instructors and users.

The challenge in task 4 would be to find resources that must be in place for the implementation to be successful. Creating the technical direction documents, instructor job aid, and other items that users can refer to as they interact with the product. According to our project, the job aids needed to be created for our project. A job aid is an essential tool that supports workplace learning and a tool that supports the developer or a supporting document when things go wrong, and the system needs to troubleshoot. A job aid helps the user with the information and guidance when required to be productive, efficient, and accurate on the job. The team needs to create a job aid for internet connectivity, solar power, and wind energy and develop the open-sourced Moodle application. Also, the team needs to describe how, when, where, and why they will use the product. The implementation plan template has a summary and the explanation details that the team needs to produce at length. 

The implementation plan process indicated what actions and methods that the team and the project are turned in to a reality through a strategic process; although, at first sight, the template is daunting when following the written template, the team thought this could be another challenge for us to achieve as the plan was based on the activities the product had, we also must define the users engaged and their expected earnings.

For the prototype planning work, how are you breaking up that work and who is responsible for what? 

The prototype has been named to be essential in product development. The prototype can help create, explore, describe, test, and analyze the designed item. The overall purpose of making the phototype is to check on the future product. The team needs to describe how, when, where, and why we use the product. Different industries serve different purposes in learning the questions to ask are “will it work” or “how well does it meet the stakeholders” need. In communication, prototype communication enriches various stakeholders. The integrations are used to ensure that components and subsystems work together as expected. As per milestone, phototypes are used to demonstrate that the product has achieved the desired level of functionality

The team tasks were divided between the three members within the team (as below), and as done before, we are ready to jump in to complete our task:

Team member 1	Team member 2	Team member 3
•Setting for the technology	•Define the number of units needed	•Human resources for training and support
•Description of all likely user groups	•How often the technology is likely to be used	•Timeline for training and re-training
•Define the learning technology or technologies	•Technology replacement cycle	•Plan for just-in-time training and support
•Likely uses of the technology in the setting	•Resources needed to support users	•Evaluation mechanism for: a. training, b. Support resources
•Learning technology integration plan	•Training plan for each group of users
•Goals and outcomes for the learning technologies use

What is your timeline for completing the prototype so you can be ready for your presentation in Week 16?

As a team, we are working on task 4; there is a lot of work that the team needs to work on, including the completion of task 5, the product development, then the evaluation plan that determines whether the product design met with the identified goals from the initial analysis. Going through the tasks that are ahead of us, I feel now is the difficult parts of the project as in each step, we need to think about the big picture and the smallest detail and understand the end-user, the stakeholder to whom the product has been created. With that, we need to analyze whether the design product is tested, feedback generated and validated, and the solution meets the initial problem and measures success. Once all is complete, the product will not end; there should be continuous improvement, and we need to plan on refining and improving the product as the product design was for the people.

Reference

Jensen, L. S., Özkil, A. G., & Mortensen, N. H. (2016). Prototypes in engineering design: Definitions and strategies. In DS 84: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference (pp. 821-830).

LTEC 6320, October 27^th, 2021