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Myself and my group have thought of some questions to ask our customers to help us understand them. Our main customers will be teens. We are making an app that will help teens and young adults control their money. Our questions are: How would you describe your financial situation?, If you’re financial desicions have been bad, why?, What is the most recent item you have bought?, If you don’t mind me asking, how much money do you have at the moment?, Do you have an income?, What department are you focusing your money on?, What do you expect from an app that helps one spend their money?, What are some problems you are having with your budget?, What would help you with your financial situation?, Are you in conceal of your spending? If not, why?, What would you view as a success from the app? All these questions will help us get an understanding from our customers.

My Team and I (Peter, Chandler, and Myself) have been thinking of ideas for our startup. We ahem recently found that idea we’ve been looking for. We have decided on financial literacy. Basically, financial literacy is knowing hoe to spend your money. A big problem in the world right now is that teens and tweens don’t know how to spend their money. We’ve decided that we should make a simulation that puts the user in a world with x amount of money, and then the user decides how to spend it. The objective is to stay as far away from $0 dollars as the user can. One problem we faced was how making money from the startup. At the moment, we think that we should create a membership that the user has to sign up for, that gives them tips and gives them access to the game. We think that this idea can be very successful and get us high up into the leaderboard.

Today, my group and I made a fishbone diagram for a problem we discussed the day before. That problem is that golfers’ are always losing their golf balls. The whole idea of a fishbone diagram is to problem solve. We separated the diagram into six parts: man, machine, method, material, measurement, environment. Using those groups, we determined causes for the problem, that golf balls are getting lost. Using the fishbone diagram, we mainly  found that human error plays a major part in losing a golf ball. Say that you overshoot or undershoot the ball and it goes in trees or water, that’s human error. You can easily fix that, and an app that tracks your ball and gives feedback would do the job.

A good team needs to agree on some norms and expectations to be functional. Myself, Peter, and Chandler have created some norms and expectations for ourselves. One main one is that we all have to work together as a group. In a team, everyone has to work together to make their product the highest quality it can be. There is no “I” in team. Another big expectation is that we need to resect everyone’s ideas. Everyone in the group should be mindful of the other group members. A group member shouldn’t say “No, that idea is plain out stupid.” they should say “I like that idea, but I think I might have a better one.” The last main point is that we all have to have respect in each other. If the respect is lost, the group is lost.