This week has been funny (not funny ha-ha mind you, although we did have our fair share of giggles). It’s been real short due to holidays (Happy belated Memorial and Liberation day to all you Dutchies) and taking a day off as we get ready to spend the weekend hacking at the Hacking Culture Bootcamp at the Waag Society. #excited. As a result, this blog post will be short and sweet, focusing on our Peer Pitch, Sprint Review and Retrospective (all of which happened on a jam-packed Wednesday, btw).
Some of the feedback from our peers. Graph=visuals. We think.
Our fourth Peer Pitch went fairly well. It’s always super interesting to see what the other teams are up to (especially getting to see what the Playful Learning team has been doing, as they just got back from a two-week trip to Spain), and getting feedback from the rest of our peers is most helpful. Beyond minor adjustments to our presentation (such as bringing up the point size of our type to you know, a readable one), we received insights mostly related to visuals of our project, and how we can up our game moving forward (by focusing on hierarchy, for example). Bazinga.
Sprint Review.
A few hours after the Peer Pitch, we headed to the Volkshotel to talk with our stakeholders. It was a stimulating meeting, with feedback ranging from the visual (not enough white space) to the intellectual (such as considering provocative conversation starters). We need to start designing one message for all of our screens that will trigger different kinds of conversations for different people. Ultimately, we’re starting to realize that we may or may not need to reconsider kind of everything we’re doing. Or something.
Retro. Gotta love that Amsterdam sun.
After that, we sat outside with Gijs to retrospect on the past Sprint. We discussed things like how we’re going to have to be super strategic from now on (with only two Sprints left to go, #yikes) and how we need to loosen up on our group discussions (and just have one big one at the beginning of our Sprints).
Not bad, Microsoft. Orlando is just a tad off.
We’re headed to hack later on today, and we’ll keep you posted as to how it all goes. We’re hoping for epic results and just enough sleep to get us through our Sprint Planning on Monday. Later.