During the week 42 our team
experienced its first setback of the project. Until now we had been developing
a website for small and medium size companies. The initial idea of was to
create a website for companies where they could sell and buy reusable leftover
materials and these materials would not become waste.
Our project partner Saara had to
inform us that the current idea wasn't good enough for Pirkanmaan Jätehuolto.
Saara had discussed the idea with the development team of Pirkanmaan Jätehuolto
and the team was convinced that we shouldn’t develop our idea further to make
it work better for the company.
For a Demola project is it not
uncommon that ideas do not work. In the process we create ideas and test them
and if the ideas do not work, we have to develop new ones. For our team it was
a small shock to hear that we have to start again with a completely new idea
but it is important to remember that you can't fall in love with your
idea because it might not work for the project company.
On 25th of October we had
a meeting at the office of Pirkanmaan Jätehuolto. We met Saara and other
employees of the company. During the meeting we came up with new guidelines for
the project. Many factors were changed: from now on we should focus only on
on-site recycling and we should try to find out why people do not separate
their waste. What could motivate people to separate the waste? Instead of focusing on small and medium size companies, we have to
focus on households and municipal companies.
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| The group during the meeting. |
Our team was quite satisfied with
the meeting and we now have a better and more concrete picture of what we have to
create for the company. It was a shame that we heard the bad news in the middle
of October but we still have time to restart the project with a new idea.
- Henriikka -
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