More than four months since the international bBox team has started working in Fiducia IT AG! Enjoy a sort of a review of our working stages in the bBox project!
Do you still remember? I think the AIESECers do: how could they forget the days when people from all over the world were landing in Frankfurt? :)
First, find out that the first day at work in Fiducia IT AG for the eight of us is memorable: all enthusiastic, very curious about the company, bBox, knowing almost nothing about each other.
Our working space prepared and the Fiducia Tour made our second day back then. It was the starting point for us to become aware of the real dimensions and importance of Fiducia, and the new 'playing field' created for our innovative project. At the same time, reaching the kind look in the faces of the people already working here, made us feel more than welcomed.
Next: Introduction week smartly organized by both Fiducia, through Mrs. Leonie Bartz and by AIESEC members. It was bBox Team building indeed, efforts without which we couldn't actually become friends that easily.
In the photo: Johannes Fischer, AIESEC Karlsruhe LCP (Local Comitee President) at that time, together with Friddie (Friederike Gairing, VPICX Karlsruhe 2009) - great speaches, beautiful minds and very important pieces of advice for an outrageous project to be 'cooked'.
But, what about working?
Well, there was a time, in the very begining, when, after finally deciding how to arrange the desks in the existent space, choosing 'neighbours' and dealing with tons of cables and all sort of wires, THE bBox OFFICE was neat and clean :)
Ready! Time not to underestimate the power of IT, but rather take it to the extreme. The 'thinking stage' began (lasted for more than one month), and it was sure time for generating genuinely new and fresh ideas that could, in the end, innovate the banking system.
First real challenge for us and, especially for our project leader, Stan : develop a working style in a team with 3 technical members, 2 cybernetic specialists, a creative member and a marketing and communication member.
Step by step, we let ourselves influenced by the most interesting things experienced or not, trying to look into the future and define a new way of interaction in banking.
First real challenge for us and, especially for our project leader, Stan : develop a working style in a team with 3 technical members, 2 cybernetic specialists, a creative member and a marketing and communication member.
Step by step, we let ourselves influenced by the most interesting things experienced or not, trying to look into the future and define a new way of interaction in banking.
How?
In our own way:
- brainstorming (ingenous methods, life experience influence, cultural elements, 'bank of the future')
- research and documentation (most interesting ideas applicable to banking, and most specifically, to a new graphical interface)
- presentations (usability, user friendliness, design, gestures)
- meeting Fiducia specialists (raise feedback, set coordinates)
- reaching our end users (Volksbank Heilbronn, Volksbank Karlsruhe: the best market to help us rank ideas, and later on, as you could read in our previous posts, test our prototype)
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| During December, we had to sit down and process the information, push through uncertainty, discard some of the ideas and choose the most feasible, interesting, smart, and with highly efficiency potential ones. The 'building concepts' stage was intense work for the whole team, sharing opinions and working in the most amazing mix of languages ever: spanglish, deutschglish, bulgarian for 'strong alligations' such as: 'Bad, bad, Delly!' and portugueso-romanian for the funniest replies. |
If we consider tha fact that that December was also the month when we got extra new devices such as laptops and tablets from Apple, we could say that the 'choosing device' stage began and we would call it the best! Until January, when the programmers received the most useful tools for them: BIG MONITORS!
The Apple vs. Android competition was the most interesting thing for the lovely team of passionate programmers and it involved analyzing both the platforms and implementing on each. Succesful teams (Xi Huand & Delly;Paulo &Pipe) on both. Device chosen for the bBox application implementation: tablet (iPad).
So, what followed was only a matter of 'Would it be possible to control the geekies?' , who are so passionate that sometime even organize 'programming meetings' at night in the office or some place else. The implementation of the concepts is succesful, the fight against bugs is exciting and the scrum meetings delireous.
Our prototype is very fast changing from previous versions to a very much improved one, and, we would like to think, exceptional, in the end. :)
The emotional capital that our team built is one of the strongest drivers of the bBox Project, and it also did not keep us against the good, rational decision making. Surprisingly or not, we are not tired! On the contrary, we feel like we still are loaded with a surplus of enthusiasm only thinking of how much of an opportunity the bBox Project is!
Let the geeky revolution continue with the Programmathon! Keep you up to date very soon!
Cheers,
Claudia
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