Laddawn.com : Functional requirements sessions

Aug 8

Let’s discuss:

July 25

  • Broad searches– nail down direction for Steve on  next iteration.
    • Pass direction to Steve
  • Consecutive searches, different zip codes, transitioning between various active cart scenarios (this goes back to a question Judy posted on the Active Cart, see my response)
    • Update with notes from discussion

  • John/Owen/Ladd email RE search limitations and results.
  • Next steps for internal users (approach to defining scope, resources, etc.)
  • Begin discussion of materials-additives, color, printing, venting, packaging shadow boxes.

 

Week of 6/4

Draft list of discussion items/priorities

  • Shop/search - is search by item # now going to include keyword search (to increase findability by compensating for limitations of labeling product information architecture)
  • Scope of YMAC requirements work
  • Steve's focus
  • Work with Ladd and Dawn on checkout requirements
  • Have we reached a point where it makes sense to solicit input/feedback from sales staff?

Goals - Week of 5/21/12

  • Review product categories and shop widget logic with IT (presumes Owen completes them Fri/Mon), estimate programming effort, update WorkZone
  • Complete first pass at high level narrative thread requirements, regroup
  • Finalize cart and search results "base" design, commence design work on special search and cart scenarios
  • Share Checkout requirements with Ladd and Dawn

Agenda 5/21/12 ? (Owen, Jim, Susan)

  • Review goals for week
  • Discuss "NS" items
  • Discuss questions (if any) about Owen's product category work
  • Discuss questions (if any) about Steve's designs, propose revisions/corrections to Steve (if any)
  • Review Checkout requirements, make them ready for review by Ladd and Dawn - PLEASE COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT OF REVIEWING WHAT IS ON WIKI, IN ADVANCE
  • Unforeseen topics

Agenda 5/22/12

No meetings; activities:

  • Jim offsite
  • Susan telecommuting - work on Checkout and misc. wiki cleanup/updates
  • Owen - ?

Agenda 5/23/12

Part 1 - Owen, Jim, Susan, Steve

Meeting:

If not necessary to meet with Ladd and Dawn to review/modify revised search results and cart "base" designs, use block of time to:

  • Discuss issue of refresh/update for over-writable fields in search results and cart with Steve.
  • Identify loose ends, finishing touches on "base" designs for search results and cart? (Assumes designs reviewed Mon & Tues and quick agreement reached...)
  • Review special scenarios for Steve to design ("see options" etc.)
Part 2 - Owen, Jim, Susan

Meeting:

  • Review Checkout requirements, make them ready for review by Ladd and Dawn (CONTINUED)
  • Make plan of attack to develop "You might also consider" (YMAC) logic for close matches
  • Unforeseen topics

Agenda 5/24/12

Meeting:

  • Regroup with John, Ed and Steve RE narrative thread. Determine next steps.
Activities:
  • John and Jim estimate programming effort

Agenda 5/25/12

No meetings; activities:

  • Susan - telecommuting; update workzone with John's/Jim's revised programming estimate for shop (and cart?)
  • Jim - ?
  • Owen - ?

Week of 5/15/12

5/15/12 - Narrative thread, post-login

Owen, Susan, Jim, Steve, Ed, John

5/9/12

Week ending 4/27/12

Goals for week:

  • Address all concerns raised in weekly meeting with Ladd and Dawn (4/19)
  • Validate product selection menus (Owen)

4/25/12

4/18/12

(Steve, Owen, and Susan)

Goals:

  • Review latest designs - Active Cart and Shop widget.
  • Validation of the ship widget form fields, through discovery of product tree and decision tree or logic
    • Create some scenarios and do flow diagrams
    • Also: Shop page - clarify Jim's notes

Week ending 4/13/12

Goals for week:

  • Finalize checkout and past orders requirements. NOT DONE
  • Address and incorporate feedback or changes from Ladd and Dawn. PARTIALLY DONE
  • Complete all outstanding documentation and documentation reviews. NOT DONE

4/12/12

No f.r. meetings. Susan: Get caught up on documentation (Share an item, share a cart; Checkout) and WorkZone.

4/11/12, 9:30-2:30; 3:30-4:30

Goals:

  1. Wrap up Checkout requirements NOT DONE
  2. Wrap up Past Orders NOT DONE
  3. Commence user prefs/my account and narrative thread.NOT DONE

4/10/12

No f.r. meetings planned (other than debrief after presenting to Ladd and Dawn).  If there isn't a ton of unfinished business with Steve's recent tasks, we could have him start on Tagged Items and Saved Carts (and go over the requirements for those with him while he is onsite at Devens).

4/9/12, 9:30-12; 3:30-4:30

Goals:

  1. Active cart
    1. Latest from Steve - good to go?
    2. Post review loose ends
  2. Shop tab: 
    1. Post review loose ends
    2. Validation of shop widget design's ability to support search dynamic parameters - who/when/how
    3. Search results and predictive ordering from Steve?
  3. Checkout
    1. Combined shipments
    2. Delivery & packaging

Week ending 4/6/12

Goals for week:

  • Have requirements and design for shop/search (and search results), and active cart, fully fleshed out for front end coding and backend programming.ON TRACK
  • Complete requirements discussions for all buckets (bundles 1 and 2 in Workzone), except predictive ordering OFF TRACK

4/5/12 (no f. r. meetings)

4/4/12, 10-2:30

Goals:

  1. Review next design iteration from Steve DONE
    1. I hate to ask: Where do price-quantity breaks (stock and custom) fit into new design? (active cart, sharing carts?) DONE!
  2. Wrap up Checkout - COMPLETE (7 of 7 complete), combined orders NOT DONE
  3. Wrap up Order History - COMPLETE requirements NOT DONE
  • Ended up discussing current Label functionality, and where the pieces (such as customer item # will now live); also revisited Tagged Items

4/3/12, 2-4:30

Goals:

  1. Discuss Owen's and Jim's feedback on Shop (search and search results) and active cart documentation; identify/resolve loose ends (if any) NOT DONE (but changes to AC required anyway).
  2. Wrap up Order History - COMPLETE requirements discussion NOT DONE
  3. If any time remains, start spec'ing requirements for post-login narrative thread and user preferences/my account (predict discussions of one will bleed into the other, so combine?) NOT DONE
  • Discussed Checkout process instead (reviewed questions about and work done on documenting ship-to addresses and combining shipments; completed former, more work remains on latter)

4/3/12, 11-1

  • Meeting with Steve B. on Cart design, and deep dive on search results to tee up next block of design work; possibly also see revised version of search default page with tweaks and/or improved blue sky background? DONE (note: changes to active cart documentation required)

 

3/30/12 - 2-4

Goals:

  1. Wrap up Order History - COMPLETE - NOT DONE
  2. Spec requirements for predictive ordering suggestions - PARTIAL(and put on hold for now)

3/22/12 - 10-12

Goals:

  1. Unfinished business ....
    1. Notes in saved carts? (10 mins) DONE
    2. Spec requirements for Sharing items and carts - OLD(110 mins) DONE

3/22/12 - 2-4

Goals:

  1. Unfinished business: Spent time reviewing Steve's latest design revision.
  2. Spec requirements for Order History - COMPLETE PARTIALLY COMPLETED

3/21/12 - 2-4 pm

Goals:

  1. Unfinished business...
    1. Wrap up Saved carts - COMPLETE (40 mins) DONE
  2. Wrap up Checkout - COMPLETE (7 of 7 complete) (40 mins) DONE
  3. Spec requirements for Sharing items and carts - OLD (80 mins) NOT DONE

3/20/12 - 2-4 pm

Goals:

  1. Review revised project plan in WorkZone (20 mins) DONE
  2. Wrap up Saved carts - COMPLETE (40 mins) NOT DONE

Assignments

12% of the tasks completed
OWEN: Document product categories/info. arch. + specifications, flow for user selection of additional options (additives, etc.) High
JOHN: Review Owen's work on product category IA/flow for user selection of additional options High
ED, JOHN, STEVE: Meet and discuss narrative thread functionality; Ed to flesh out and document in Wiki page. Steve research avatars. High
OWEN: Review Checkout documentation Medium
JIM: NS is still used quite a lot and is updated with much of the added functionality such as "Printing". Need to figure out if/where NS will reside as we move forward. Medium
SUSAN: Document notes from 3/21 on Share an item, share a cart Low
SUSAN,OWEN,JIM: Discuss data needs for historical retreival and Predictive logic. Low
JIM: Custom items today take on the name of the configuration they come out. There is a lot of logic tied to this. Can we continue to keep these names in tact behind the scenes. Medium


Attachments:

expose search choices.pptx (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation)
expose search choices.pptx (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation)