Internal Stakeholders Interview
Interviewing internal stakeholders to understand internal competence and constraints
I interviewed internal stakeholders (founder of the company, developers, etc) to align project expectation and more importantly, to understand the company’s competence and constraints. So that I can make sure the experience I designed is feasible and usable to the company.
Competence: Conferency has built an established system of collecting data through Conferency’s current business offering. The current data pipelines provide a structured data collection mechanism, and it’s easy to use for our clients. For example, Conferency has developed machine learning algorithms to automatically extract paper abstract and topics from a PDF academic paper.
Constraints: As an early stage startup, the ability to develop a comprehensive mobile application is limited. When talking to internal stakeholders, I was suggested to use leverage existing website functionalities and develop a minimal viable product at first. These two strategies help to reduce cost and to accelerate the development process.