Archive for December, 2008

Website Conceptualization

Friday, December 12th, 2008

We have been extremely busy in the ChumBonus war room, drawing screens and zeroing in on the requirements for Phase 1 of the System.

We are extremely excited to have launched a contest to assist us writing the business requirements. Sure we could think of everything, eventually, but let’s use the power of the crowd and partner with some of the best system architects in the world to define “everything” much faster.

Take a look at this brand new conceptualization concept and watch us collaborate directly with architects in the project forums to help identify, organize, and document our needs and ideas, and produce a high-level Business Requirements Document

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24hrs is the way to go

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

What a difference a day makes, we just received 11 crack submissions to our storyboard contest. The next couple of days are going to be great reviewing the submissions and selecting the winners.

My personal top two are of course from consistent winners on TopCoder. Gotta love having access to such talent.

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More Time Less Time

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Had an interesting “how best” call with the head of community at TopCoder today, we tried the five day competition for what we thought was a reasonable $100 a screen and received a tepid response and predictable design.

On the call we were told that More Money and using a technique called Rounds is one way to get more quality submissions and more interest with the ability to make changes mid-stream. Using rounds just seems to add more time, which may delay our timeline. What we need is something to keep us on schedule.

In the next breath we hear, Less Money and a 24hr contest is also working well, which sounds so counter intuitive. Normally faster and cheaper are not terms typically seen together, but I will take the bait.

Tonight at 5:30 et we will launch a 24hr contest,

Good luck to all,

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