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February 💘

It is the start of February and once more, we are in the amazing sbarc|spark in Cardiff.

We used this session to understand the ordering of content (from the audit we conducted). This allowed us to agree what we would load up onto the site first, and to agree future plans in more detail, including our initial beta sprint.

It was agreed that for our initial beta sprint we would focus on the “Our work” and “Help and advice” area of the new site. Content will be copied across, categorised, tagged, teaser intros made, and 3 projects will be created in the “Our work” area. We aim to get this complete ready for beta testing in early March. The beta testing session will allow us to get a feedback loop from our users, ensuring we can then improve other areas of the site (that come in a later sprint).

As always, at the start of a sprint we agreed our sprint goals. These are:

**🎯 Sprint goal

Prepare "Help and advice" and "Our work" area for beta testing with users**

Duration 4 weeks - 6 Feb to 3 March

• Content and resources ordered and loaded in to "Help and advice" area
• Teaser summary created
• Search function created
• Feedback of homepage ideas via Mentimeter session at our show and tell
• Tags and content types assigned
• Build 3 projects in "Our work" area
• Visual and design elements (including cropped images) created and loaded on to dev site (for the 2 areas)
• Web form and integration to HubSpot created
• 10 (estimated) beta testers to begin testing these 2 areas from end of sprint (3 March)

Plan showing beta stage, split into 3 sprints of roughly 4 weeks each