Motivate Teams To Succeed by Symphonical

Information about the business model, related campaigns and new Someone.io features such as "High Five" have been posted as blogs on http://blog.someone.io/ During the period April-December 2015 a total of 15 blogs have been posted, of which 7 were related to activities in the SPEED pre-project. The presentation "Extending Essence for Business and Service Engineering - with Symphonical (Someone.io) Tool Support" was presented at the Berlin workshop with OMG on Essence practices on June 18th, 2015. The presentation focused on how the Someone.io tool could support Essence-based practices. See http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/berlin-15/special-events/Essence_Day_agenda.htm Furthermore, the Someone tool has been used at a course at the University of Oslo, INF5120 by SINTEF (Arne J. Berre), Spring 2015, 20 students - using the Someone tool and having interaction with Symphonical for feedback.

Since SPEED proposal's submission, Symphonical's team has been working hard on improving its strategy and product using innovation to help teams better at working together and achieving success. The team focused on establishing a concrete marketing strategy plan, innovating its technology and planning a solid business model. Symphonical's latest upgrade has been named Someone to make it easier to market it. A trial version was released in March 2015 and a public launch will take place in May 2015. From now on the company name is Symphonical and its product is "Someone". Someone is targeting managers and its mission is to their help teams to succeed. Its potential lies into innovating team's collaboration and support their need to get clear overview to manage projects and their tasks. It supports SPEED?s vision, which was: The vision of the SPEED project is to bridge the gap between project management models (doing the right things), best practices (doing things right) and simple ways of task management (getting things done) in a highly efficient, motivating, visual and simple way.