Aug 8
Let’s discuss:
- Odds and ends from this morning (see my notes)
- https://laddawn1.atlassian.net/wiki/display/web/Shop+-+design+to+do+list
- https://laddawn1.atlassian.net/wiki/display/web/Active+cart+-+design+to+do+list
- “Eaches” - https://laddawn1.atlassian.net/wiki/display/web/Active+cart+tab?focusedCommentId=6684749#comment-6684749
- Neptune QA, round 3, next steps https://laddawn1.atlassian.net/wiki/display/web/Neptune+front+end+development+-+QA
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
- 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.
- 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
- Scope and approximate timeframes
- Interplay with pre-login narrative thread?
- Requirements definition
- Development
- Design
- Special prompts for shop widget
- Reviewed Shop widget information architecture/logic -grouping 1: bags category
5/9/12
- Search results - product label and description details and formatting
- Vet Owen's standard poly bag "tree"
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
- Bring Jim up to speed
- Page widths?
- Review Steve's work since 4/19
- Discuss open items in 4/19 meeting notes
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:
- Wrap up Checkout requirements NOT DONE
- Wrap up Past Orders NOT DONE
- 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:
- Active cart
- Latest from Steve - good to go?
- Post review loose ends
- Shop tab:
- Post review loose ends
- Validation of shop widget design's ability to support search dynamic parameters - who/when/how
- Search results and predictive ordering from Steve?
- Checkout
- Combined shipments
- 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:
- Review next design iteration from Steve DONE
- I hate to ask: Where do price-quantity breaks (stock and custom) fit into new design? (active cart, sharing carts?) DONE!
- Wrap up Checkout - COMPLETE (7 of 7 complete), combined orders NOT DONE
- 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:
- 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).
- Wrap up Order History - COMPLETE requirements discussion NOT DONE
- 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:
- Wrap up Order History - COMPLETE - NOT DONE
- Spec requirements for predictive ordering suggestions - PARTIAL(and put on hold for now)
3/22/12 - 10-12
Goals:
- Unfinished business ....
- Notes in saved carts? (10 mins) DONE
- Spec requirements for Sharing items and carts - OLD(110 mins) DONE
3/22/12 - 2-4
Goals:
- Unfinished business: Spent time reviewing Steve's latest design revision.
- Spec requirements for Order History - COMPLETE PARTIALLY COMPLETED
3/21/12 - 2-4 pm
Goals:
- Unfinished business...
- Wrap up Saved carts - COMPLETE (40 mins) DONE
- Wrap up Checkout - COMPLETE (7 of 7 complete) (40 mins) DONE
- Spec requirements for Sharing items and carts - OLD (80 mins) NOT DONE
3/20/12 - 2-4 pm
Goals:
- Review revised project plan in WorkZone (20 mins) DONE
- Review how "See Options" is spec'd in Shop - (20 mins) DONE
- 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 |
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