Reflections on mind mapping in design thinking 

 Challenge : 

 The challenge is to increase the efficiency in which development teams move their work out into   production environment / s , while meeting a long list of requirements that are prone to change   without warning and are poorly understood within the organization . 

 Selection : 

 The tool I used to target this problem was Mind Mapping ( Week 3 ) . This is when I get together with   different interested parties / customers and create maps about what people understand about their   current processes and what they see as key problems . This is laid out in a freeform flow chart   allowing the people to emphasize and clarify their understanding of the problems . 

 Application : 

 I sat down with a range of mainly self - selected development teams within the organization and   developed individual Mind Map ’s on how the teams worked and the steps they need to take their   changes all the way to production along with identifying key challenges they face as a team . 

 I also worked with the regulatory teams to create Mind Maps focussing on what they need from the   development teams to meet the regulations . 

 Insight : 

 I discovered through this process is that current requirements make their teams feel unempowered   and their releases are held at the whims of other teams with inconsistently applied requirements . 

 The moving the changes through the process involved a lot of hand offs to these different teams ,   costing the development team time and energy to drive the change into production . 

 Approach : 

 Using the insights learnt from the Mind Mapping My team created a series of tools and procedures   as proofs of the identified concepts then we are planning to do a series of Learning Launches   ( Week 4 ) to demonstrate tools and processes my team have created . Then iterating on the tools   and procedures to improve the development teams lives . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Reflections on mind mapping in design thinking 

 Challenge : 

 The challenge is to increase the efficiency in which development teams move their work out into   production environment / s , while meeting a long list of requirements that are prone to change   without warning and are poorly understood within the organization . 

 Selection : 

 The tool I used to target this problem was Mind Mapping ( Week 3 ) . This is when I get together with   different interested parties / customers and create maps about what people understand about their   current processes and what they see as key problems . This is laid out in a freeform flow chart   allowing the people to emphasize and clarify their understanding of the problems . 

 Application : 

 I sat down with a range of mainly self - selected development teams within the organization and   developed individual Mind Map ’s on how the teams worked and the steps they need to take their   changes all the way to production along with identifying key challenges they face as a team . 

 I also worked with the regulatory teams to create Mind Maps focussing on what they need from the   development teams to meet the regulations . 

 Insight : 

 I discovered through this process is that current requirements make their teams feel unempowered   and their releases are held at the whims of other teams with inconsistently applied requirements . 

 The moving the changes through the process involved a lot of hand offs to these different teams ,   costing the development team time and energy to drive the change into production . 

 Approach : 

 Using the insights learnt from the Mind Mapping My team created a series of tools and procedures   as proofs of the identified concepts then we are planning to do a series of Learning Launches   ( Week 4 ) to demonstrate tools and processes my team have created . Then iterating on the tools   and procedures to improve the development teams lives .
### Output: 