Imagination / Vision
Our idea was born from scheduling a team meeting for this weekend and for pretty much every event we have ever tried to organize in the past. It’s always hard to find a common time, and so many collaborative ventures or just fun events do not end up happening because of it. Instead of building a whole scheduling tool from scratch in just 2 days, we decided to see if we can leverage an existing tool and make people want to use it more! We love using When2meet, so we tried to automate the process of syncing a user’s Microsoft Teams’ calendar and populating their schedule on to When2meet.
Collaboration
The only people on our team we could reach were developers, so we split up the work by having one person focus on using Teams’ API and the other person focus on using selenium to automate getting that data into When2meet.
Innovation
Almost all the tech was new to us! We spent the weekend learning to use API’s and selenium and building stuff while we were at it :)
Fail forward
Scope!! We had a way more ambitious plan in the beginning (create our own version of When2meet that cut down the time to plan a meeting by half!) but very quickly realized we could not do that in a weekend. We had to re-define scope twice more throughout our working period.
Design
By shaving down the time it takes to schedule meetings, there would be a lot more buy-in from participants to actually put it into their own schedules and show up.
Function
Although we were unable to finish this project, we have a working proof-of-concept that could be refined into a working MVP!
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