2️⃣Day 2 - Build a prototype to validate with real users

Welcome to day 2! Now that you know what you're building, it’s time to create a roadmap and UX mockups.

As part of your Stellar Community Fund submission, you must ensure your Proof of Concept is achievable in up to 6 months. To do that, you’ll take the user stories from Expanded Golden Path, organize them into the MOSCOW canvas; and then size the items in the Must Have and Should Have using t-shirt sizes (S, M, L, XL). Your best guess is okay.

Define your Proof of Concept (POC), Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Minimum Marketable Product (MMP)

  1. Proof of Concept (POC):

    • Timeframe: 1-2 months

    • Definition: A proof of concept is a small-scale demonstration to validate the feasibility of a concept or idea. It aims to verify whether a certain concept can be implemented effectively.

  2. Minimum Viable Product (MVP):

    • Timeframe: 4-6 months

    • Definition: A minimum viable product is a basic version of a product with only essential features to satisfy early adopters and collect feedback for future development iterations.

  3. Minimum Marketable Product (MMP):

    • Timeframe: 6-12 months

    • Definition: A minimum marketable product is the version of a product that includes enough features and functionality to satisfy early customers and generate revenue.

For the activation award, you must present a project that can be delivered in 1-2 months (a proof of concept)

In this section, you are required to organize the tasks that you created in the USER STORY MAP into items that it must have to test the solution in 1-2 months (this is your POC), items it should have in the next 4-6 months (this is your MVP), and items it could have (this is your MMP) in the next 6-12 months. Everything else will go into the Will Not Have section.

You will use a tool called MoSCoW to determine your POC, your MVP, and your MMP.

Must Have: This is what you'll be applying for your in your Activation Award submission
Should Have: This is likely to be your Community Award submission roadmap
Could Have: Together with the "Should Have," this is likely to be a good base for determining", your Total Expected Roadmap. These are stories that will make it into your MMP.
Won't Have: These are items that are 1+ years away from being built, and therefore are not worth spending any time over right now.

Size and Risk your POC User Stories

As part of your Stellar Community Fund submission, you must ensure your Proof of Concept is achievable in ~6 months. To do that, size the items in the Must Have and Should Have using t-shirt sizes (S, M, L, XL). Your best guess is okay.

You should not have XL tickets. If you deem one of them to be XL, break it up into smaller chunks!

You should not have XL tickets. If you deem one of them to be XL, break it up into smaller chunks!

UX Mockups

A low-fidelity wireframe is a skeleton of a digital screen, web page, or application. It'll have the bare-bones elements that will be included in the finished project. Low-fidelity wireframes give designers and programmers an idea of where images, text, buttons, and interactive elements might be placed.

If you have a designer on your team, you can make it as high-level as you want. If not, a simple mockup (even pen & paper) will do.

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