Feedback from Minimum Viable Product (MVP) questions on new TSSG.Tech web site:

  • We do "resume-driven development" to help us choose the technologies that we use [lora: interesting, we need to think about how to word]
    • We chose the technologies that we use so that we can gain experience with them so we can add them to our resume
    • This is done as group "real life" experience, not just study
  • Need new website to NOT look like it was just putting a Power Point presentation onto the web [lora: changed public site tssg.tech to simple html so we can forever close the powerpoint reference from being needed now]
  • Low Maintenance - make it easy to update the website when there is new / revised information to be published [lora: -maybe an API for Team Lead - timeframe 3 or 4]
  • Question 1: What have you seen on the current website that has "TURNED YOU ON"?
    • Fast access to information on what TSSG is and when the meetings are held
    • Do like the existing logo, some people use it on business cards
  • Question 2: What have you seen on the current website that has "TURNED YOU OFF"?
    • Need to remove "software quality assurance" from the list of applications that TSSG develops [done]
    • Need way to state that the QA group is a discussion group that also helps out the other teams [more questions - Ray Bloom asked for "QA Study Group - vs. Dev"]
    • Need to remove the yellow square of must attend first meeting in person, looks like a post-it note [done]
    • change "in transition OR enthusiasts" to "AND" [done]
    • All Caps in the top is not liked [done]
    • Poor navigation - boxes, images that go to different places, etc. (especially similar-looking graphics whose functions one can't distinguish) [ done for now, need to rethink this in Timeline 2 or 3 ]
  • Question 3: What have you NOT seen on the current website that would help you already in TSSG? 
    • Add testimonials ? [add to timeframe 2 - ask for INPUT from General Meeting after presenting new MVP release]
      • make a separate page, NOT a footer
      • Web team was going to leave this off until we had enough (suggestion: 5)
    • Real world benefits of what we do in TSSG
    • Reminder:  This is a recruiting tool for TSSG, not a sales tool
      • We are about training, not creating products that will be sold
    • We are NOT a non-profit, we are a collaborative group
    • We have a budget of zero
      • Address this elsewhere
  • Question 4: What is on the current website that you would complain about if it was deleted?
    • Keep the meeting times
    • Keep the location / venue wording to indicate that we are not always in Acton [WILL REQUIRES SOME THOUGH]
  • Question 5: Imagine yourself as a prospect on the other side (just now hearing of TSSG for the 1st time) what would you want to see that's not there now? 
    • Say that we are an eastern Massachusetts group, have this near the top of the page
    • Keep in mind this is not just for Acton Networkers, other groups like SPIN, SQGNE, NEJUG and Agile NE are also good places to advertise that TSSG exists
    • Put the link to web site in the Meet-up page / announcement
  • Question 6: We currently appeal to a wide range of "customers" - your thoughts?
    • Is the list of people there too many?
      • Like the idea of all the different job titles
    • Search Engine Optiumization (SEO) needs to be added to the list – NO!!
    • Change People to Professionals in the list of potential customers if we add this list to the website (ref: Brainstorming MVP list)
  • Question 7: List of Potential Customers “(as defined in current website)”
    • Suggest to remove UX Designer from this list
      • We do NOT need to meet everything on this list, so leave it in
    • Trying on NEW ROLES, not hats
    • Change "in between jobs" to "in transition"
    • The wording of this list needs editing
    • Add Business Analyst and Product Owner to the roles
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