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Toolkit Community Scoping Questions

Amy WIlson edited this page Apr 24, 2017 · 1 revision

Working Design Challenge Question

  • Challenge: Design a space where existing government employees can learn about innovation and how they may bring those ideas to their job.
  • Point of View: A busy government worker wants to do her job more effectively, have more face-to-face interaction with citizens and also has an idea on how to improve her agency can work better together. She has heard about "innovation", but doesn't know what that means or how to go about applying that to her life.
  • "How Might We" Question: How might we make it easy for any Federal government employee to become innovative and participate in existing innovation activities?

Setting the Stage

  • What's the main purpose behind this toolkit/playbook?
  • Why a toolkit/playbook? Why now?
  • Who is our audience? Do we have multiple audiences?
  • Is this product going to be available to just federal government employees or to everyone, or both?
  • If you were king or queen of the world, how would your key audience use this product?
  • What outcomes do you hope to get out of this project? What is success for you?
  • What is being done right now to create an Innovation toolkit/playbook?

Logistical Questions

  • Do you envision this as a collection of what exists or the creation of new content? Or both?
  • Where will the toolkit/playbook be housed? Will it be electronic/virtual and/or hard copy?
  • Who is the team to implement this toolkit/playbook?
  • What resources (money, people, time) do we have to implement this project? How is this project being funded?
  • When would you like to have an MVP of the toolkit/playbook?
  • What are some key milestones or roadblocks of which we should be aware?

Scoping Questions

  • What is the problem that you're trying to solve with this toolkit/playbook?
  • Why is solving it important?
  • How would you define innovation?
  • What makes someone innovative? A team innovative? The government innovative?
  • What kinds of innovation sounds most appealing to you?
  • What is being done right now to foster innovation?
  • How is this different than what already exists?
  • Think of innovation as an ecosystem. What are the parts of that ecosystem?
  • Anything else we should know that you haven't already said?