WEEK 9: Communities of Practice

WEEK 9: Communities of Practice

Image Credit: Nitya Wakhlu “Practice does not exist in the abstract. It exists because people are engaged in actions whose meanings they negotiate with one another.” (Wenger 1999: 74). Therefore, as creative practitioners, we join communities to aid our personal...
WEEK 9: Second Design Sprint – Process

WEEK 9: Second Design Sprint – Process

In this post, I will discuss our process and the team working aspect of the sprint. For an analysis of our artefact beFrank, please see WEEK 10: beFrank. Jumping into our second design sprint of the course, I decided to change things up by working in a group. I teamed...
WEEK 7: Version Control

WEEK 7: Version Control

Image Credit: Liam Jay Version. Control. It is possibly in the top ten list of unsexist topics that I could discuss in my reflective journal, but it is nevertheless an important one and the one I am talking about today! Version control is how teams and individuals...
WEEK 6: First Design Sprint

WEEK 6: First Design Sprint

And that’s it! My first ever Design Sprint: Complete. With the close of that intense period of work, I conducted the following retrospective. A retrospective is a part of the overall management framework within the Agile methodology. The aim of a retrospective is to...
WEEK 5: SMART Goals

WEEK 5: SMART Goals

These two are relationship goals! Image Credit: Alex Green We all have goals, but often, we never stick to them. However, frameworks exist that can help with that. The SMART acronym provides a structure that allows us to create actionable aims; as a methodology, it...