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| Describe your product in general terms: What does it do? How does it do it? | | |
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| Please describe the current state of your technology (e.g. what features does and doesn't your prototype have) | | |
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Does the core of your product consist of hardware or software? |
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| Can your product be used for anything other than its preferred use? | | |
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| How does the end user interact with the product? | | |
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Please upload labeled sketches of your product |
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| Part1 | | | | Part2 | | | | Part3 | | | | Part4 | | | | Part5 | | | | Part6 | | |
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| Part1 | | | | Part2 | | | | Part3 | | | | Part4 | | | | Part5 | | | | Part6 | | |
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How satisfied are you with the following:
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| In what way do the parts interact to make the product work? | | |
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For each part, indicate if the part (or its form or interconnection) is ESSENTIAL to the product -that is, for each part, ask, "if this part was left out, or changed, would the remaining device still be my product?" Or, "if this part was changed or left out, would the product still work?"
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Are there any critical ranges of size, weight, pressure, etc. for any of the parts of your product?(i.e. "the cap must be made of steel with a Rockwell hardness of 32-56") |
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Must some parts be made of specific substances? |
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| What legal requirements have to be met by the product? (medical, safety, environmental, EMC etc..) | | |
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| In what ways could the parts (steps) be changed or equivalent parts substituted without changing the basic product? | | |
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| Is there a generic description for any of the parts you listed (i.e. "fastener" instead of "Machine Screw", or "plastic" instead of "polypropylene")? | | |
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| Could the functions of any of the parts be changed, combined, eliminated? | | |
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| What could be added to make the product work better? | | |
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| How is the function of the product being done today? | | |
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| What is the closest device (method) you are aware of to your product? | | |
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| Is there something, which performs the same function in a different way? | | |
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| Is there any combination of existing devices (methods) which would be similar to your product? | | |
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| How does your product perform its function different from, or better than, these prior devices (methods)? | | |
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What parts will you build yourself and what will be outsourced? |
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| What will be the price of your product? | | |
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| What will be the cost price of your product? | | |
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Business value and roadmap |
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| Which goals do you need to reach in the next 6 months and how does this reflect on your roadmap? (Are the goals/features on the roadmap validated or did you do any test/experiments? How do you plan to develop the features, include the plan, time and resources. Does your development team have a way to track progress) | | |
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| Describe your current and desired product architecture (what programming languages, frameworks, SDKs and APIs do you use): | | |
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| Describe your development process (what development tools do you use, do you use something like SVN or GitHub, do you use a bug tracking system): | | |
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| Deployment (what do you need to do to release a new version into production, setups, continuous integration, build servers, etc): | | |
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| Quality (what do you do to test the software): | | |
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| Infrastructure (describe on what hardware and operating systems your product is hosted): | | |
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| Describe your team, founders, early tech employees, freelancers, outsourced and how are they contracted? Inhouse? | | |
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| How does your team communicate, hipchat, slack, skype? | | |
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| Who is the product owner in your team, why? | | |
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| Do you use agile / scrum etc, do you have any retrospective reports? | | |
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| How many hours of development are spend on the product so far? | | |
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| When a new developer joins your team, what actions need to be taken for him/her to be productive? | | |
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