Summary

This roadmap is a living, continuously-refined document that outlines the design and development tasks and timelines for the Platform Cooperative Development Kit. It is a high level document that structures the project's activities into short 1-3 month sprints. After each milestone, we will revisit the timeline and refine it based on feedback from our co-designers. A visual timeline is also available.

Roadmap

November 2018

Activities

• Synthesis of responses to questions posed to the platform cooperative community about project website UX

• Two co-design workshops with SEWA in India (Dana and Michelle from IDRC will attend)

  • First session with in-home beauty workers (who are starting a new cooperative)

  • Second session with Members of the SEWA federation of co-ops

Outcomes

• Summary of feedback from platform cooperative community about website UX posted to project wiki

• Design specifications and feature lists, co-created by SEWA participants, for the governance and scheduling tools

December 2018

Activities

• Iterative design of UX for the Platform Cooperative Development Kit website

• Synthesize and share the results of the co-design workshops with SEWA in November

Outcomes

• A summary synthesis blog post/wiki page containing outcomes, next steps, and design sketches and stories from the co-design workshops with SEWA

January & February 2019  

Activities

• Refined designs of the new website

  • Focus will be on reworking/updating existing key content on the site (such as updated navigation, improved look and feel, cooperative stories)

Outcomes

• Prototype of the new website to further discussion

March & April 2019

Activities

• Create a collection of embedded co-design activities and design prompts to be used by Cataki, Co-Rise, and the Cooperative Life

• Redevelop the website using a modern CMS framework (such as WordPress or Hugo)

Outcomes

• Embedded co-design activities and structure available for use by partner co-ops

May & June 2019

Activities

• Cataki and Co-Rise will start embedded co-design activities with their communities/members

• Design initial user experience for the Learning Commons

• Continue the design and development of new website features/UX

Outcomes

• Initial design prototypes for the learning commons

• Architectural design of the learning commons

July & August 2019

Activities

• Partner co-operatives will continue embedded co-design activities

• Design team will expand the design of the learning commons based on feedback from the community

• Plan a series of feedback and co-design sessions ("Phase 2 co-design") with participating cooperatives focused on the learning commons and labour platform

Outcomes

• Launch initial "minimum viable user experience" (MVUX) of the new website (first of several incremental releases adding more features and content to the site)

September, October, November 2019

Activities

• Partner co-operatives will continue embedded co-design activities

  • Series of CoRise co-design planning meetings with facilitators

• Participate in the Platform Co-op Consortium conference, conduct co-design with conference participants regarding the Labour Platform

• Support co-design (Coopathon) of the Index, facilitated by Danny Spitzberg

• Synthesize and share the results of the first round of embedded co-design

  • Suara, SEWA

• Participating cooperatives will provide feedback and design refinements to the learning commons and website via phase 2 co-design activities

• Start sketching the platform tools

Outcomes

• A summary synthesis blog post/wiki page containing outcomes, next steps, and design sketches and stories from the co-design with partner coops and conference co-design

• Blog & People features added to the project website

• First version of Resource Library designs

• First version of Directory/index user needs and input from conference participants

December 2019, January & February 2020

Activities

• Design and research for the labour platform tools and hub

• Implementation of a "minimum viable" version of the resource library

• Start design and development of the new interactive cooperative map for the website

  • Initial UX design of map

  • Environmental scan and comparative evaluation of mapping technologies/tools

  • Technical "spikes" using various mapping technologies to determine the most appropriate tools

Outcomes

• Design requirements for the platform tools and hub

• Designs of initial version of the Resource Library

• Designs and start of functional implementation of the Map/Index

• A summary blog post/wiki page containing outcomes, next steps, and design refinements from co-design potluck

March & April 2020

Activities

• Solicit feedback from platform cooperative community about the resource library, index/map and website

• Release of Resource Library

• Design and implementation of platform tools & hub

• Refinements to the map/index

Outcomes

• Summary of third round of feedback from platform cooperative community about website UX posted to project wiki

• Landing page for labour platform hub and platform tools

• Co-design feedback with partner coops of the platform hub and tools

• Launch of Resource Library

May, June 2020

Activities

• Launch of Map/Index

• Refine and improve the design and implementation of:

  • website

  • labour platform tools and hub

  • interactive cooperative map

  • resource library

Outcomes

• Updated versions of the website, interactive map, labour platform tools and hub and the resource library