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###### tags: `Dungeon Master`
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# Discovery & Testing Methodology: Dungeon Master v2 Proposal #1

### Overview
*Discovery Phase* will bypass assumptions in order to generate a new base metric for the build. *Testing Phase* will be applied towards the existing product. *Analysis and Synthesis* of these learnings will result in a finite build strategy for optimizing DMv2.

### Discovery
- Interviews
- Script
- Time boxed format
- Schedule
- Execution
- Data affinity mapped via Travi's workshop
- Personas
- HMW Questions > User Stories
- Red Routes
- Sitemap

Key Deliverable: a novel sitemap for a speculative DM, which may or may not align with the original DMv1 build.

#### Bonus Op: SOP for UX Research
- Document our discovery methodology
- Submit as SOP for wider RG Ranger use

### Testing
- 1:1 Testing with RG members
- ID scenarios to test
- script for tester
- data extraction method
- ID Users / Use Cases
- RG Clerics
- RG Jesters (meeting facillitators)
- Members seeking info
- Members seeking to update raid/RIP status
- etc.
- Iteration
- every interview refines questions for User IDs in relation to actual experiences
- Red Routes of frictions (Tension Map)
- mapped on the existing product
- clearly ID'd pain points, bugs
- "Dark" Sitemap

Key Deliverable: a clearly rendered sitemap of the existing product build, including friction/pain points for the current users of RG

#### Bonus RIP: SOP for Documentation
- Use the testing method to sketch v1 documentation for DMv1
- Standardize our own techniques to submit as SOP for RG technical Scribe use

### Analysis/Synthesis
- Compare discovery sitemap with testing sitemap
- Analyze the differences..
- in a report to the guild
- as recommendations to structure the build
- Used to scope the timeline/budget for Proposal #2

### Duration / Budget
- ~10hrs/week x $150/hr x 8 weeks x 4 contributors
- $12k per raider
- $48k total, per proposal
- Begin work immediately upon approval
- Proposal #1 deliverables complete by Nov 18, with follow up into December
- Proposal #2 submitted by end of year, with work to begin Jan 2023

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## Proposal #2 Sketch

### Anticipated Deliverables
- Final polished build of DMv2
- Justified/evidenced by the learnings of Proposal #1
- Useable Documentation for DMv2
- Sketched in Proposal #1, executed as a discrete docs site for Proposal #2
- New design elements for DMv2
- Integrated into the existing design system
- Linked symbols so that future changes will populate throughout the app
- Potentially SOP for how future RG branded products can incorporate this SOP to keep our design flow consistent