Hi there people! It’s time again for our weekly blog update. With this week: the end of sprint 1. Yes you heard that right, this week sprint 1 will be finished. Time flies when you’re having fun!
We started the week with a really interesting interview Madeline Crowell. She’s a 23-years-old freelance journalist. We asked her questions about her vision on journalism of this day and age and her vision of the future.
She finds freelance journalism very competitive. The younger people have to fight for their articles to be published while the somewhat older people are higher up in the hierarchy. The positive side of freelance journalism is that she can write about anything she likes, so no restrictions.
The tools she uses are mainly hands on approaches like interviews and recording people. She does use the internet but not social media like Twitter or Facebook. “There’s a lot of rubbish on the internet” she says. “You have to be really careful while looking for information. But that also counts for interviews. You generally have to trust the ones you’re interviewing. It’s hard to make sure it’s reliable.”
We also asked how her ideal future tool for the journalist would look like. “Something that exactly keeps you up to date, but is has to be organized. Some kind of database of e-mails for editors, or to get in contact with someone. That would really help me with my work.”
On Wednesday we had our first Peer-Pitch. All the MediaLAB groups presented their current progress in their project. We of course also did this and we got some great feedback from the other groups and coaches! We translated this feedback into a SWOT Analysis with our strenghts, weaknesses and opportunities.
At the end of this sprint we of course also had a meeting with de Persgroep. This meeting was similar to the Peer-Pitch, namely to let them see our progress so far. The most important points in this meeting were:
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What is the lifespan of an article anyway? How is it determined? How do the journalist and reader see this?
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Keep interviewing journalists!
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Make a clear conclusion after every sprint. What did we do and what did we learn/not learn?
Last on the agenda was the sprint retrospective with our Scrum Master Alexander. We reviewed our first sprint with the so called “Start, Stop, Continue” method. We each thought of things we should start, stop or continue in our next sprint, put them on sticky notes and categorized them.
We now have a clear view on how to start with the next sprint! Since sprint 1 is now finished we will throw a little party and treat ourselves to some beers. Stay tuned for next week when we will start making user stories for sprint 2! See you all next blog update!
Nikki 🙂