Roadmap to MVP: Define MVP User Journey, Features, Functions, Data, and Integration

Developing the technology solution to show how your company solves a business problem can be a barrier for women and women identified founders. The lack of technical skill to self-develop a minimal viable product (MVP) can delay entry into the market or cost the founder more dollars up front to contract development skills leaving them short of funding to drive other needed activities of early stage start ups. Haltech in partnership with Silicon Halton have created Roadmap to MVP as a way to accelerate through this milestone. This series will take women through a 6-part workshop program to help women establish their MVP.

Delivered by experts with years of experience, the content will focus on creating a vision for the solution, learning about the processes involved for solo development, assisted development by appointing a team of specialists, and the available platforms to help women bring their ideas to an MVP to test in market.

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Participant Eligibility

• Women and Women Identified Founders
• Best suited for entrepreneurs in idea, discovery and early validation stages

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You will registration will be confirmed.

Session Overviews

I. Define MVP Vision / Scope

This introduction session will help you develop your vision / scope, including business mission, vision, solution definition, scope of work, project plans, assumptions, risks, constraints, and budget.

II. Define MVP User Journey, Features, Functions, Data, and Integration

January 14, 2021 | 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Q&A Session Follows

In this session you will learn how to develop your user journey, features, functions, data flows, and integration requirements required to make your MVP work. You will also be introduced to the build vs. buy model in determining how you should think about developing your MVP.

III. Develop MVP Yourself

During this session you will learn about no code / low code platforms available to you, how they work and how to try them. As a demo, you will be walked through one of the platforms to build a simple application.

IV. Build MVP with Application Development Team

This session will explain how you can find a development team, how to discuss your vision / scope, features and functions, timelines and budget. Developers will join this session to discuss how they need requirements to be defined – what helps / what doesn’t – to do the best job. You will learn how expectations need to be defined for successful projects.

V. Select MVP Hosting / Cloud Computing Platform

In this session, you will learn about the top platforms available to you to host your application, along with how to evaluate the features, and understand pricing models.

VI. Test and Launch MVP

The final session will teach you how to conduct develop test plans and conduct testing with your MVP. The session will conclude with a discussion about launching your MVP and getting ready to be in a production environment.

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BONUS

Networking Session

We’ll bring people from the tech industry project managers, application and cloud computing architects, and developers so you can ask lots of questions and get to know what resources are available to work with in the region.

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Workshop Facilitator

Reema Duggal, President of Sitaran Group and Co-Founder of Silicon Halton

Reema is a strategic professional with a long career in the global IT industry; she has expertise in Revenue Generation (Strategy, Marketing, Portfolio Management) and Delivery Management (Practice Leadership, Program and Project Management). She serves as President of The Sitaran Group and Co-Founder of Silicon Halton, a 1500-person community of talented technology freelancers, solo-preneurs, entrepreneurs, and professionals.

At the Sitaran Group, Reema’s team works with companies to create Digital Business Roadmaps that will guide them in building strong businesses. These roadmaps help: drive revenue, enable digital marketing and sales activities, reduce costs by optimizing business processes and build organizational capability with strong change management and training programs.

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About Haltech

Through education, advisory services and strategic connections, Haltech enables start-up and scaleup technology innovators and entrepreneurs to accelerate their growth and navigate the path to profit. Haltech is a non-profit corporation supported by Ontario Government and our valued Corporate Sponsors.

About Silicon Halton

Silicon Halton is a grassroots, industry-led, technology focused community of Freelancers, Solopreneurs, Entrepreneurs, IT Professionals, and Students committed to technology, community and growth. Silicon Halton creates programs to help members connect with technology ecosystem and create opportunities for business growth, professional growth, and partnerships.