Our first vocational game part one – requirements gathering with PVL UK
Sean McAlinden
CEO
Sean is the founder and CEO of Xtrable.
Along with his long and proven track record of successfully delivering global projects, Sean brings his unrelenting passion and strategic vision for disrupting disability in the workplace.
For a little while now we have been trialling the proof-of-concept of our games-based e-learning system at Woodlands Meed school and college, and it has been going really well with amazing feedback from the students.
The course content in the trial was not real though, we had made it up ourselves to start the trial and test out different features of the system.
To understand the true effectiveness of the platform, we really needed to create a game course based on a role for a real company.
Luckily for us, Woodlands Meed has some great business contacts in the local area, and they set up a meeting between us and a company called PVL UK (www.pvluk.com).
PVL turned out to be the perfect first company, not only were they local, but they also understand the problem we are looking to solve, and they already actively hire from the disabled and neurodiverse community.
PVL also understand how traditional qualifications and recruitment methods can be problematic for many disabled and neurodiverse people, so they adapt their processes accordingly.
It was so refreshing for me to see a company putting D&I into practice by actively hiring people from this talent pool; I dare say there are many companies that could learn a lot from PVL in this regard.
What does PVL UK do?
PVL do a few different things, but their main product is livery; think of the blue and yellow stripes on police cars or the yellow and green patterns on ambulances… when you see this on vehicles, this is livery and it’s very likely PVL UK put it there.
Emily Darnell from PVL gave me a tour so I could see some of the work in action and then afterwards we had a great Q&A session on how PVL works and what a role in their warehouse would look like, and what skills were involved.
It transpires that if you are good at and enjoy jigsaw puzzles, working a PVL could be the perfect place for you.
The whole requirements gathering process took around one hour to complete, in that time I’d learned enough to start planning PVL the game.