Course Assignment : Mind Mapping Elements 

 1 . Challenge : 

 Our company is into service industry . Over the past 10 years , we launched many   products . It was in 2012 we hired an agency that helped us implement agile   methodologies . They introduced us to Jira , groomed a project manager for the Scrum   Master role and implemented daily stand up meetings , sprint reviews , and more .   However , it was very new for the entire team and there remained some challenges such   as the way the management thinks and perceives building products using agile .     The organisation has always been frugal , believed in learning new things from time to   time , and be really quick at adapting to changing environments .     Having said that , since the teams have to deliver things at a great speed , this always   results in them picking up a lot of tasks . Also , due to the frugal nature of the organisation   and limited resources , they ’re always kind of short of time . The teams also think that the   time spent on meetings could be utilised elsewhere such as coding for the product . Due   to this , many a times they build features that could be much stronger had they done   more brainstorming and followed the design thinking process such as ideation and   customer empathy sessions . The management is also unaware of the best practices to   follow – and one that I picked up is Mind - Mapping . I also strongly feel that if they gete   convinced about the global best practices , it would be easy to buy more time from   stakeholders for building great products .     I interviewed about 10 people for the product we had recently launched internally to a   limited group of 50 people . And as expected , that gave us a lot of insights . We realised   that to make real sense of so much of data , mind - mapping would be the next right step   to solve problems of building great products . 

 2 . Selection : 

 I am also a fan of the IDEO CEO who says , “ If he has to do something analytics , he   creates a list , but he has to do something more creative , he creates a mind - map ” . This is   why I selected mind - mapping tool because there was so much of information in each   interview . I also used the product management user interview framework . Mind - mapping   also helped me connect the dots in the information received from multiple users . 

 3 . Application : 

 The product manager and a group of other 4 people from the team working on the   product got into a room . The info that was in Microsoft excel , collected through the   interviews process was projected on screen and we started breaking them down to small   features and bugs on sticky notes . Once that was done , we categorized and prioritised   them . The first meeting also brought up a lot of questions as it was our first time but that   also helped us go through the material online to make sure we fully understand the   process . An announcement was made that these meetings would be held more often . 

 4 . Insight : 

 There were eye - opening insights during this entire process . We got to know the top 3   reasons why the users would not engage with the product as we ’d anticipate them to ,   and also about what they currently love about in the product . We found their objections   and heard what they did n’t say during the interviews . We then mapped all the pointers   and what kind of impact they have . It really helped us write well though stories and   helped us in effective prioritization . 

 5 . Approach : 

 I think we will need to work on our brainstorming sessions and improve them in future so   we can do better mind - mapping with the team . We realize that this will save us a lot of   time . And , we will also show the management 4 - 5 successful mind - mapping meetings   with their outcome to bring them in confidence . This will generate great result and we will   be able to get their buy - in so we can implement agile in the organisation in true sense . 


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### 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: Course Assignment : Mind Mapping Elements 

 1 . Challenge : 

 Our company is into service industry . Over the past 10 years , we launched many   products . It was in 2012 we hired an agency that helped us implement agile   methodologies . They introduced us to Jira , groomed a project manager for the Scrum   Master role and implemented daily stand up meetings , sprint reviews , and more .   However , it was very new for the entire team and there remained some challenges such   as the way the management thinks and perceives building products using agile .     The organisation has always been frugal , believed in learning new things from time to   time , and be really quick at adapting to changing environments .     Having said that , since the teams have to deliver things at a great speed , this always   results in them picking up a lot of tasks . Also , due to the frugal nature of the organisation   and limited resources , they ’re always kind of short of time . The teams also think that the   time spent on meetings could be utilised elsewhere such as coding for the product . Due   to this , many a times they build features that could be much stronger had they done   more brainstorming and followed the design thinking process such as ideation and   customer empathy sessions . The management is also unaware of the best practices to   follow – and one that I picked up is Mind - Mapping . I also strongly feel that if they gete   convinced about the global best practices , it would be easy to buy more time from   stakeholders for building great products .     I interviewed about 10 people for the product we had recently launched internally to a   limited group of 50 people . And as expected , that gave us a lot of insights . We realised   that to make real sense of so much of data , mind - mapping would be the next right step   to solve problems of building great products . 

 2 . Selection : 

 I am also a fan of the IDEO CEO who says , “ If he has to do something analytics , he   creates a list , but he has to do something more creative , he creates a mind - map ” . This is   why I selected mind - mapping tool because there was so much of information in each   interview . I also used the product management user interview framework . Mind - mapping   also helped me connect the dots in the information received from multiple users . 

 3 . Application : 

 The product manager and a group of other 4 people from the team working on the   product got into a room . The info that was in Microsoft excel , collected through the   interviews process was projected on screen and we started breaking them down to small   features and bugs on sticky notes . Once that was done , we categorized and prioritised   them . The first meeting also brought up a lot of questions as it was our first time but that   also helped us go through the material online to make sure we fully understand the   process . An announcement was made that these meetings would be held more often . 

 4 . Insight : 

 There were eye - opening insights during this entire process . We got to know the top 3   reasons why the users would not engage with the product as we ’d anticipate them to ,   and also about what they currently love about in the product . We found their objections   and heard what they did n’t say during the interviews . We then mapped all the pointers   and what kind of impact they have . It really helped us write well though stories and   helped us in effective prioritization . 

 5 . Approach : 

 I think we will need to work on our brainstorming sessions and improve them in future so   we can do better mind - mapping with the team . We realize that this will save us a lot of   time . And , we will also show the management 4 - 5 successful mind - mapping meetings   with their outcome to bring them in confidence . This will generate great result and we will   be able to get their buy - in so we can implement agile in the organisation in true sense .
### Output: 