Delivery & Roadmap

The delivery of your ideas back to the client might be the end of your team’s project, but it’s not the end for your client. It’s important that the project is handed back to your client in a consultative process, and use this as process to learn more about your project. When you deliver your project, it’s important that it goes back to your client alive, and with a future.

So, what happens now? Many university projects fail to go forward because the original team moves on and the new team doesn’t know where to go. As the current experts on the project, it is an important legacy to outline the future direction of the project.

When framing your roadmap, think big picture. Imagine what you would do now if you were to start again today with all the knowledge you’ve accumulated about the project.

Delivery

For many classes, the delivery of your project is through a visual representation, such as a poster or presentation.

When you deliver your project back to your client, you should avoid using technical jargon or presenting the systems engineering approach back to them. Deliver your design described in a way that the client can use and understand.

Roadmap

As part of the delivery back to your client, you should include a roadmap for future development. This should serve as a guide to the next project team. You should also not expect them to continue your project - the roadmap should provide the next project team with the inspiration to take the project further.

• Plot out a plan for the next six months of the project
  • What were some of the good ideas that should be continued?
  • What were some of the ideas that should be explored further, but you haven’t had a chance?
  • How could some of your ideas be piloted?
  • How did you build on feedback from the client? What advice would you give to the next team?
• Chunk out some milestones that might be useful for the future of the project
• Identify the skill sets that might be useful for the future project team. Were there any avenues in your design that you didn’t follow up because your team didn’t have the skills
• Identify resources that might be required to take the project to the next stage
• Identify the partners that will be required to develop the future project. Who would you advise your the next project team to work with?
• Identify the funding requirements to continue the project into the next phase

Core resources

• IDEO.org’s Field Guide to Human-Centred Design has a section on Implementation. The plan above has been assimilated from this resource. Online or relevant sections as PDF