Almost two weeks have passed by and we’re at the end of the third sprint. This means we’re halfway our MediaLAB project. It’s unbelievable how fast this sprint went.. Obviously one of the reasons for this was the Easter break, which was a 4-days lasting holiday. Another reason it went by so fast, is the fact that we were so busy developing our second prototype: the interactive dashboard! Last sprint, we ended with the interactive timeline. During the peer pitch, we got some great feedback from our peers which we translated into a SWOT-analysis, which you can see below:
SWOT Analysis Peer Pitch 2
After the peer pitch, we discussed the feedback and decided there should be an interactive tool in the backend too, which would focus more on the journalist itself. In this tool, the journalist would see the statistics of the written stories, see a social feed and would have the possibility to collaborate with both other journalists and readers. After some small brainstorming, we came up with the idea of an interactive dashboard.
This became the starting point of Sprint 3. During the sprint planning, we adapted the user stories of this sprint to this focus: designing an environment for the future journalist in the form of an interactive dashboard. Furthermore, we wanted to do a brainstorm session with our assigners from the Persgroep, Frank and Petra. We also wanted to create a clickable prototype for this sprint. Altogether, our user stories for this sprint looked like this:
User Stories Sprint 3
On April first, we had the brainstorm session at De Persgroep, which you can read more about here. After it, we started on the wireframes of the dashboard, which we made in the Invision tool. Below you can see some examples of it:
Dashboard – Statistics
Dashboard – Profile
Dashboard – Front Page
On Wednesday the 15th of april, we had the third peer pitch. We also did a SWOT analysis of these results:
SWOT Analysis Peer Pitch 3
The day after, on april 16th, we had the Sprint Review with de Persgroep at MediaLAB. After it, we did a retrospectives session. Next Monday we’ll start planning sprint 4! Keep you posted!