3rd week - Value creation workshops+meeting with Anni

We created value. What did we do? We got familiar with the project lifecycle, NABC, pitching (we need these things a lot of time during our job). We did our first pitch in 1 minute. Really useful, because you will think about it deeper, if you have to present your tasks for unknown guys. This paper is our bible.

The team members attended on different value creating workshop due university duty. Sun & Ilkka on Tuesday, Gábor on Friday.

After the Tuesday workshop we sit down to prepare the Playbook. We had to review the template, and find the appropriate answer & use proper text. After the meeting we individually gave our answer for the questions (homework) and on the next meeting we will write the best ones.

On Friday we had a great discussion with Anni, who clarified the “dark points”, and she gave us a good “kick” to find the way. Finally we shaped our Playbook with sweaty work. This day was long, especially for Gábor, as he connected the Workshop and the Playbook finishing event. Most of the event was spent revising the Playbook and its contents while trying to find a way to figure out the direction project is going to take.

Ilkka: 8h +2h homework     cumulative: 16

Sun: 6h +2h homework      cumulative: 14

Gábor: 8h + 2h homework  cumulative: 16

Eric: 4h +2h homework      cumulative: 12

2nd week - Initial meeting 11.02.2014. and individual researching

The most important meeting. We met first with our support team, thanks Anni, Raine and Tero in
advance!

What they want with this project? It is simple and difficult in the same time. We have to develop a concept to improve municipality’s public transport and reducing the costs with -50%. Hard task, isn’t it? We clarified the rules, contact persons, and the most important ! USE THE CAMPWIRE ! It was nice to get to know the details and to meet with Anni, Tero and Raine (via skype). Decided to communicate via Facebook groups (one group for the team members only, one where Anni, Tero and Ville is participated to avoid unnecessary spamming…), and Google Drive to store and share our common documents.

Let’s speed up ourselves, first individual research in this topic.

After getting the main point of our project,everyone of us would try to find as many supporting studies as possible to support our work with some basic theoretical knowledge. We have searched the information from several parts

1) Anni provided her thesis work draft with a lot of useful information. It was essential to start working in this topic, as most of the team member not really expert in public transport.

2) For some of us,  we are not very familiar with the public transportation system here, so we searched some websites to get some basic knowledge of this field, which would be useful for our further brainstorming of our project.

3) some of the innovative public transportation solution in some other countries, such as uber.

here are some examples of the finding:

http://www.vtpi.org/tranben.pdf

http://mek.oszk.hu/10900/10971/10971.pdf

www.epito.bme.hu/uvt/hirek.../t_l_kozltarskoltsei-tanczosbokorcikk.doc

Ilkka: 4h cumulative: 6

Sun: 4h cumulative:6

Gábor: 4h cumulative:6

Eric: 2h cumulative:4

1st week - Kick-off meeting 04.02.2014. DEMOLA New Factory Building

The “really first” meeting for everybody. Great atmosphere, nice starting. During the awesome Kick-
Off event we got the essential information about Demola, about project lifecycle, and the support
provided by the guys at Demola. Our facilitator Ville will be our first and most important support
person.

The eagerly awaited time: the TM2TL team members meet with each other. Sun, Ilkka, Eric and
Gábor started to getting know each other, and the project. We have a lot of things to do (involving the responsible teachers, collecting the basic information about our project partner, and get well know our team). Four different attitude, one big and common goal, let’s start it!

Ilkka: 2h cumulative: 2
Sun: 2h cumulative:2
Gábor: 2h cumulative:2
Eric: 2h cumulative:2