Team Vital: Solution Oriented

This week team Vital conducted ten more interviews and brainstormed more ideas for our app. Some of the people we interviewed include: Marine Corps Analyst, Marine Corps Intelligence, an app developer, and a chief intelligence officer for National Defense University. We got some insight into the positives and negatives of our minimum viable product, which will help us tweak it moving forward. We realized a potential obstacle in regards to our solution will be that customers will have to already have it downloaded. We need to figure out how to really sell the value of our app so people feel compelled to have it downloaded.

In a disaster, most people post information and pictures on Facebook or other social media platforms. We want to know if we can use data from major social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat) and upload it to our app in real time. Also, can people without smartphones send SMS texts to update the app? In order to figure these answers out, we need to interview app developers. We were told that one of the values of our solution is that it provides asynchronous communication, meaning that multiple pieces of data can be read at once. As opposed to a dispatcher having to answer eight calls, for example, he could look at the app and see that eight people reported the same emergency in one location.

Number of interviews: 10

Number of Mission Proposition Canvases: 10

Number of Minimum Viable Product Ideas: 3

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