Mind mapping – a Design Sprint Approach 

 Challenge     I am a 02 years old product manager at a young startup . When I joined my company to replace   my predecessor , I took over a research and development department where the chaos was   king : no process , no organization , low confidence from most of the management , teams of   30 young ( mostly interns ) . Naturally delivering product making enter money on the bank   account of the company was the ultimate goal of my job . But there were also a lot of excellent   points : the company was not lacking resources , all the engineers were very talented , the   teams were following agile methodologies , and we had the ambition to push to the level of   industrial grade four products .     If I do not detail here the management part of my department , I think it is essential to frame   the story about the tools I chose to refine my products quickly .     Selection     To tackle the second challenges of creating great products I started to look for the most fitting   tool . When you look for things they start to pop from anywhere around you , and I add the   chance that one of my young engineers watch a video on YouTube about Google Design   Sprint . If you do not know Design Sprint , for me , they are in direct line with design thinking ,   but in a readier to use form . The big idea is to go through a whole design thinking process in   a five - day ( and step ) process : Understand , Diverge , Decide , Prototype and Validate . So , I   started to study the concept , and we quickly decided to go for a trial .     I the next section I will focus more my argumentation about the Understand and Decide steps   of the Design Sprint as they are the one matching the Mind Mapping tool presented in this   course .     Application     So , we decided to do the first trial on a Design sprint . We gathered all the tools required , first   the easy ones : post - it , pens , whiteboards and meetings rooms . In second the human capital   was the most difficult to motivate , but I find a way to convince the COO to join us for the   Understand step and here the magic happens . The purpose of the understand step is to   represent the system you work on by listing on one side all the actors and mapping all the   action they do until they reach the desired output . Usually , you try to work on a specific   section or sector of the whole map . My COO took a pen and immediately started to draw on   a giant diagram on the windows we use as whiteboard modeling his entire business process   from A to Z , commenting and detailing each piece of information . The exercise was so great   that in a second step we hijack his teams who join us and completed the drawing accurately   by specifying few points .     We kept the diagram on the windows and continued the activity . We go through the diverge   step where we started to explore potential solutions to the problem individually using a mix   of researches and brainstorming , and finally , we arrive at the Decide step where you have to 

 vote for the best ideas . This point reminds me precisely what was described as a “ museum ”   in the course . On one wall was exposed the master piece of mapping from the COO and his   team . And on another one , a lot of small ideas , each of them like a paint trying to solve the   significant issues . After each participant pitched his ideas , you keep a moment to re - visit the   museum and start to vote for the best details of each idea .     Insight     The Understand and Decides step where enlightening for me from many points of view . I   profoundly believe this experience was one the most enriching one from a professional point   of view . It teaches me a tremendous quantity of things . First , you know nothing about the   people for who you are designing a product until you meet and interview them . Secondly , the   mind needs space to express his ideas in a precise manner . A piece of paper or a computer   screens are not adequate for such a task you need to spread information enough to be able   to physically step back from it or come close to get details . At least , when you work on a   problem , you must multiply the potential answer at an individual level but also as a group one   and try to do the sum of the best . It is at the price of this diversity of solution and exchange   that you achieve to find solution graded real innovations .     Approach     Next time I will need to apply such a tool I will do my best to keep in mind the lesson learned .   The diversity is a critical element in the team composition . Surfing on the success of the first   series of Design Sprint , I will do my best to include a better variety of profiles in the team ,   mixing : ages , gender , nationality , jobs , and positions in the company . The purpose will be to   get the best quality of output in the diverge and decide steps .     To be honest , the mind mapping part with its museum is already quite good and can be only   refined again and again until its execution is smooth . Sometimes , we get stuck in the   modelization of the process , or we miss few inputs , but we always figure out a quick way to   find the information we are looking for .     If you are curious about the methodology , I invite you to complete this course by doing extra   research on the Design Sprint . 


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: Mind mapping – a Design Sprint Approach 

 Challenge     I am a 02 years old product manager at a young startup . When I joined my company to replace   my predecessor , I took over a research and development department where the chaos was   king : no process , no organization , low confidence from most of the management , teams of   30 young ( mostly interns ) . Naturally delivering product making enter money on the bank   account of the company was the ultimate goal of my job . But there were also a lot of excellent   points : the company was not lacking resources , all the engineers were very talented , the   teams were following agile methodologies , and we had the ambition to push to the level of   industrial grade four products .     If I do not detail here the management part of my department , I think it is essential to frame   the story about the tools I chose to refine my products quickly .     Selection     To tackle the second challenges of creating great products I started to look for the most fitting   tool . When you look for things they start to pop from anywhere around you , and I add the   chance that one of my young engineers watch a video on YouTube about Google Design   Sprint . If you do not know Design Sprint , for me , they are in direct line with design thinking ,   but in a readier to use form . The big idea is to go through a whole design thinking process in   a five - day ( and step ) process : Understand , Diverge , Decide , Prototype and Validate . So , I   started to study the concept , and we quickly decided to go for a trial .     I the next section I will focus more my argumentation about the Understand and Decide steps   of the Design Sprint as they are the one matching the Mind Mapping tool presented in this   course .     Application     So , we decided to do the first trial on a Design sprint . We gathered all the tools required , first   the easy ones : post - it , pens , whiteboards and meetings rooms . In second the human capital   was the most difficult to motivate , but I find a way to convince the COO to join us for the   Understand step and here the magic happens . The purpose of the understand step is to   represent the system you work on by listing on one side all the actors and mapping all the   action they do until they reach the desired output . Usually , you try to work on a specific   section or sector of the whole map . My COO took a pen and immediately started to draw on   a giant diagram on the windows we use as whiteboard modeling his entire business process   from A to Z , commenting and detailing each piece of information . The exercise was so great   that in a second step we hijack his teams who join us and completed the drawing accurately   by specifying few points .     We kept the diagram on the windows and continued the activity . We go through the diverge   step where we started to explore potential solutions to the problem individually using a mix   of researches and brainstorming , and finally , we arrive at the Decide step where you have to 

 vote for the best ideas . This point reminds me precisely what was described as a “ museum ”   in the course . On one wall was exposed the master piece of mapping from the COO and his   team . And on another one , a lot of small ideas , each of them like a paint trying to solve the   significant issues . After each participant pitched his ideas , you keep a moment to re - visit the   museum and start to vote for the best details of each idea .     Insight     The Understand and Decides step where enlightening for me from many points of view . I   profoundly believe this experience was one the most enriching one from a professional point   of view . It teaches me a tremendous quantity of things . First , you know nothing about the   people for who you are designing a product until you meet and interview them . Secondly , the   mind needs space to express his ideas in a precise manner . A piece of paper or a computer   screens are not adequate for such a task you need to spread information enough to be able   to physically step back from it or come close to get details . At least , when you work on a   problem , you must multiply the potential answer at an individual level but also as a group one   and try to do the sum of the best . It is at the price of this diversity of solution and exchange   that you achieve to find solution graded real innovations .     Approach     Next time I will need to apply such a tool I will do my best to keep in mind the lesson learned .   The diversity is a critical element in the team composition . Surfing on the success of the first   series of Design Sprint , I will do my best to include a better variety of profiles in the team ,   mixing : ages , gender , nationality , jobs , and positions in the company . The purpose will be to   get the best quality of output in the diverge and decide steps .     To be honest , the mind mapping part with its museum is already quite good and can be only   refined again and again until its execution is smooth . Sometimes , we get stuck in the   modelization of the process , or we miss few inputs , but we always figure out a quick way to   find the information we are looking for .     If you are curious about the methodology , I invite you to complete this course by doing extra   research on the Design Sprint .
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