Bloozle Team Meeting

Ok. We are back - and the recruitment drive I mentioned in the previous post has gone well - we are a team of about 7-8 now. We have a 3 member technical sub group and at least one member dedicated to 'user communication' - the next post here could as well be by him.

We had a full day teem meeting today - the agenda was to get the whole team at a place - talk about our own inputs on the concept and about what we all have heard from the initial users (this part had mostly me talking). Lots of new ideas came in and lot of 'विचार मंथन' (brainstorming) happened.

We decided on a few 'NextSteps'.There are 3 major verticals of work as of now

• Incremental Work (plugging gaps in the current site)
• Concept Redesign (to project a more focussed message)
• communication (plan the marketing of the site on release – FAQ, Tuts etc).

It was decided to have a FULL team meeting again on 5/6 January to take stock of the progress. Meanwhile we have branched out into 2 groups – one will do the ‘Incremental work’ and other will do the ‘Concept redesign’ as well as ‘User communication’.

• Manpreet, Raza and Nikhil (me) work on ‘Incremental Work’ - plugging all the technical gaps (including UI gaps) for the current version of bloozler.
  
• Hemant, Aurko, Kalpesh and Nikhil (me) will work on study of competition, focus of the concept/homepage and redesign for the site. The group will also do initial work on ‘User communication’ – tutorials, FAQ, introductory emailers etc.
  

Hemant could not attend this meeting as he is in KL, Malaysia at the moment. Yet, his urge to be present for the meeting forced him to call me during the meeting and talk to everyone present.

Overall a good start ... lets see if we are able to close in critical things by 5/6th January when we meet next.