May 6th update

I said that we were going to focus on balance sheets today and I was wrong. I had the structure of the balance sheet printed and practice problems ready but we never got to it.

I do believe that it was a good lesson though. First, we watched the video together. Oliver put in noise cancelling headphones because it is hard to listen to your own voice. However, the video turned out well! It is posted on our project page under the document section.

We used our stakeholder map to think about the video. Where should we publish it? Who is going to see it? What are their perceptions going to be? What does that mean for our project? This took longer than I expected as they really thought about the ramifications of posting the video and the different stakeholders that we have for our project. The map is posted above.

I said that we needed to think before we took action on the video. And that the stakeholder map helped guide us in the analysis. They decided who our stakeholders were first. Then they discussed how they were going to feel about the video. As you can see above, they didn't think that everyone was going to be supportive of the video. But they did believe that it clearly represented their project.

Because of our conversation, they were aware of some of the drawbacks of the video messaging for different members of the community and Eitan is ready to talk about these decisions with the community.

The video was well executed and thought out. The necessary steps were taken to create something that looks great and tells a story. Everyone learned about making a short commercial, they all participated and worked together.

I am proud of the process and excited for our next activity that we did plan during our meeting. We are now ready to go!

Maybe we will get to balance sheets this week.