11th week demola regular meeting

   At the beginning , we discussed something about the mid-pitch. Eric did a good job. and there is about one and a half month left for our project. we collected lots of information, still for the broad field, still there is a long way to go for the final demo. Ville introduced the other teams also faced the same problems and encourage us to continue to do something to put forward.

   the main part is about how to cooperate with the Tampere logistic. Tevo make it more clear to help us go further. it is showed as follows. for the missing cooperation part, we will discuss it for the next meeting with the rep. from tampere logistic, Mobisoft and so on.

  

 and in the end, we decided to have another preparation meeting before meeting with Tampere logistic. we outlined our project in 4 parts to make our own project clear: the basic introduction,, the problem, the futures and the benefits. with the separated tasks, we agreed on another meeting in TUT.

Ilkka:cumulative: 45

Sun:  cumulative: 45

Gábor: cumulative: 45

Eric:  cumulative: 45

9th week - Mobisoft meeting with Pekka Eloranta

First and foremost Thanks for the support Tero!

The meeting organised by Ilkka, as the easiest way for the communication is still to use Finnish.

Some of the company did not send and feedback for the requests, but Pekka Eloranta from Mobisoft was very helpful and we scheduled a meeting with him on 3.4.2014.

We have great discussion about the problem, Pekka give us a good brief about his opinion and the proposed solution. We suppose this meeting extremely useful and interesting as Pekka highlighted some new approach, which gave us some further idea. It was also very good to see, that our conception shows lot of parallelism with the solution proposed by Pekka.

We continue to focus on the application which will support the public transport, as we experienced, there is a huge demand for this kind of solution.

The idea is to collect the supporting processes of TKL, PALI & KELO, as these organizations working independently. Would be good to establish some kind of "supervisor" organization, that could collect all the data and make the processes "smarter" accordingly... We believe that this application could give appropriate IT background for this purpose, and additional to it the customer service level would increase a lot via this.

The Demo (layout) of this application is already taking shape in our heads, it will be able to be published really soon!

Some notice about this meeting can be found in the Google Drive Folder.

Ilkka: cumulative: 40 h

Sun: cumulative: 35h

Gábor: cumulative: 40h

Eric: cumulative: 38h

8th week - Set up meetings!

The main task of this week was to set up meetings with the responsible organizations based on Tero's advice.

As the task is easier to communicate in Finnish, Ilkka was quite active this time. Gábor supported to process with the template written in English.

Fortunately we got positive feedback and Mobisoft proposed a meeting on 3.4.2014.

We are still waiting for feedback, but at least we have already something.

Ilkka: cumulative: 38h

Sun: cumulative: 35h

Gábor: cumulative: 37h

Eric: cumulative: 35h

7th week demola regular meeting

we had this meeting aiming to communicate the progress of our project. For our part, we talked the results of the last demola jam and also gave some feedback from the survey on the consumers, for example, for the customers, they prefer to take the same bus with Children, and the elderly people or disabled people, when taking the bus together, there is no bid difference for most people. Also we survey on the speed, price and other factors ‘s comparison when choosing the public vehicles. the price, speed, walking distance , waiting time and privacy matters much. we would go further to get more information and brainstorming the solutions. and Also we confirm with the contact information and time with relative parties, Mobisoft, Tampere logistic and others.

Ilkka:  cumulative: 32

Sun:    cumulative: 30

Gábor:  cumulative: 35

Eric:   cumulative: 30

6th week - homework, blog writing, research, etc.

As we have "some" lag with the publishing of our project progress, this week we focused on the blog writing and to schedule the tasks. We decided to use the Google Blogger as our main platform for blogging. Our idea is to transfer our blog posts from Blogger to Demola's site as they are appropriate. Additional to it we have an official folder in Google Drive, all the materials are stored here. We have also a working hours register excel table, where all the meetings, homework and availability of the team members are in up-to-date form. Based on this it is easy to set up our meetings and follow up the progress, and communicate via our "official" channel, the FTM2TL group on facebook.

Ilkka: cumulative: 30h

Sun: cumulative: 28h

Gábor: cumulative: 33h

Eric: cumulative: 28h

4th week - Meeting with Anni to prepare the Jam & DemolaJam

For this week, we had 2 meetings, first, the prepare meeting with Anni finger out how we make full use of the demola jam to get some feedback from our end-customers to validate some ideas. and Secondly, the implement of the survey and the first demola program.

Firstly, in the prepare meeting, we tried to agree on what kind of ideas we would like to gather from our customers and in what kind of forms. Our aim is to help Anni to collect some data for her thesis, meanwhile to know the basic opinions from the customer, and learn how to validate our solutions as well. we came up with several questions to collect the end-users’ opinions on the public transport, for instance, the defect and also to check whether they would like the take the same bus with disabled , children and elderly people. the form, we thought, should be more interesting and involved them to join us, but it does not take a long time .

Secondly, during the section of the validation of the jam , we invited about 16 pubic transport users to contribute their idea. The questions include, describe the nightmare you went through in the public bus and if you have to choose one group people to take the bus, which do you prefer : elderly VS disabled, Elderly VS children, and Disabled VS Children. We should some funny photos of the 3 group people and also engage them to use tinfoil and markers to depict the experience .

lastly, we collected all the results, it showed several problems in the public transport we could base to find solution in our project. and we decided to make a survey to gather more people’s opinions. so later we designed a Finnish questionnaires.

Ilkka:  cumulative: 19

Sun:    cumulative: 18

Gábor:  cumulative:19

Eric:  cumulative: 17

5th week - Playbook review+No-slide pitching+Brainstorming

Long and productive week...let's see the events in order:

Playbook review (03.03.2014)
The team event facilitated by Antti, thanks for Ani and Tero for the participation.
Really-really useful meeting, very expedient method. There was still some dark point, but this
meeting helped to understand better the point. The final solution is already taking shape in our
hand, we will focusing on mobile application as improving step (which will provide real time data,
time tables, and a lot of contacted services.)

Table content after the meeting:

The most important post-it: full with useful contacts from Tero. Thanks!

After the meeting we met Mandar Gyan from Eday Solution who gave some great idea showing us the ZappScan application. We were thinking about ti implement this solution into our application. The idea: if you "ZappScan" your buscard, you can check you account if there is enough money to use your card or recharge needed. Furthermore should be useful to build an online platform where you can recharge your buscard with money using your credit card. Sounds very comfortable!

No-slide pitch (04.03.2014.)

To prepare the first pitching session, we needed some homework individually. After all we decided what to "pitch" on the event. Good basic were the materials from the value creation workshop, but of course as we had already a "vision" about the project, we presented more details.

Just easily check the video taken by Eric from our (Sun & Gábor) performance in this meeting. Ilkka supported us via online.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152251607693890

Great event, good feedbacks, what else should we wish? Lets continue!

Brainstorming @ TUT (08.03.2014)

Sun, Ilkka and Gábor went through all the possibilities. The technical side (vehicles, supporting IT, apps), social side (result of the survey published by Ilkka) and economical side were thoroughly discussed. We found that the public transport here in Finland is one of the best in Europe, and there are a lot of existing supporting applications, we have to collect them and shape a user friendly application with all the available services in one hand. Additional to it we want to get some feedback from the public audience (young, student, worker and retired) to know the weak points of the service in end-user point of view. 

Tero give us opportunity to review the cost side of this service, we will set up the meeting with

the responsible persons ASAP. Ilkka informed Ani about our progress, she gave further supporting

documents.

http://www.lut.fi/documents/27578/270423/playbook-for-strategic-foresight-and-innovation.pdf/ef1df345-eeb8-4fea-a664-3f8f0c39e35b

We do not stop working!!!

Ilkka: cumulative: 28 h

Sun: cumulative: 25 h

Gábor: cumulative: 28 h

Eric: cumulative: 25 h