Another week has passed by, and we all agreed this week went so quickly! On Monday, we started with a workshop ‘Define Goals & Intentions’ from Charlie Mulholland. We found this one of the most inspiring and useful workshops so far. Especially the brainstorm session was a real eye-opener. First of all, we learned the correct way how to use sticky notes: you should always tear them from left to right instead from down to up. When you do it this way, the sticky note won’t curl up. We started the workshop with defining our problem in one sentence. Then, we had to write down the 5 W’s and 1 H: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How. By doing this, we realized that we couldn’t answer the question why our problem needs to be solved yet in one concrete sentence. This is an important insight and we will do some research in the coming weeks to see if we are able to answer this challenging question. Afterwards, we did a brainstorm session where we all had to come up with different stakeholders, which we categorized in four different groups: project, users, third parties and future. After the workshop, we had to prepare lunch with our team. It was nice to prepare a lunch all together for a big group of people. After lunch, we had a meeting with Margreet, which was about Ideation and Sprint Planning. This meeting was very important, because we had to organize our Scrum Board in order to get a clear overview of all the different User Stories. The Friday before, we ended the week with the meeting with Alexander about the User Stories, so it was quite important for our team to really know how SCRUM works.
On Tuesday, we started working according these user stories, and our team worked like a Well-Oiled Machine, doing tasks for the first three user stories during the whole day. On Wednesday, we started the day with a workshop Visual Thinking from Agnes and Ilaria. Afterwards, we had a meeting with Margreet and Felipe, where we discussed everything we did so far. For example, we got some great feedback for interviewing journalists, adapted some of the questions and talked about general thing concerning Scrum. On Thursday, we worked on the User Stories and send all the relevant information to the Persgroep. We also got in touch with a Journalism teacher at the University of Amsterdam. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to talk to us next week. He did give us some very interesting information that we are researching right now. Next week, we’ll hopefully have interviews with different journalists from the Persgroep and finish some user stories.
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