As we continue through our Discovery period, we had the opportunity to present a status update to our stakeholders at our December Project Panel meeting.

What We’ve Been Up To: User Research

• Plan approved by internal stakeholders
• Recruitment messages executed
• 100% scoring interviews completed
• Scoring field study completed
• Scheduled 9 Current managers (450% over goal)
• Scheduled 3 current manager field studies (150% over goal)
• Scheduled 75% prospective manager interviews

Development

• December 17th: Received hardware for development team
• December 18th: Final technical stack approval by CIO
• We’ve begun building our local “skeleton” application using Docker:
  • Partial local implementation with Docker (December 21st)
  • Currently working with Middleware to configure PostgreSQL

What We’re Currently Working On

• Finalizing schedule for field studies and interviews with Current and Prospective Managers
• Finalizing local Docker setup
• Creating build books and developer training

What’s Coming Up in January?

• Complete Current Manager field studies in National Capital Region, Montréal, and Kingston
• Complete all TA interviews
• Complete a TA field study at the PSC
• Work with Middleware to setup/deploy to a dev server
• Our next Project Panel is on January 30th
• Fellows will be intermittently out of the office for user research interviews throughout January.