Design Thinking : Assignment 

 Design Thinking has helped me develop perspectives that might have not occurred otherwise . I look   forward to apply it in my everyday life - both personal and professional . My selection of tool is Learning   Launch . 

 Learning Launch :   Accomplish – While you test your ideas ! 

 Challenge 

 In our organization , we are part of a new project group of 12 members formed to accomplish a data   insight end - to - end module ; we have to take every stakeholder into confidence right from the financing   team , to business analysts to developers while developing the module . To keep the team motivated about   the value that the project would generate once accomplished and encourage everyone to feed in their   ideas and experience   and most importantly for the time bound project it is , we could risk less in terms of   time experimenting . Our team is spread across two different regions with different time zones . We are to   coordinate to get the work done and deliver the project on time . We face two challenges here , one is   coordination between members spread across region and another being clear definition of the tasks and   activities to complete the project . Also we have to take into account the stakeholders involved , their   expectation of the team and roadmap of the project 

 Selection 

 To accomplish coordination and for effective utilization of the resources during the entire cycle of the   project , we prefer to use learning launch as the tool to experiment , test our ideas and prototypes as we   go ahead getting the actual work done . As we are allowed to experiment a bit , we prefer learning launch   as a tool , as it allows one to make corrections ( at the early stage in case of our project ) and proceed . 

 Application 

 Our first process - in order to not keep any resource idle or less occupied we have broken down the tasks   to be parallely started . The tasks are built to be time bound , tried to keep them independent with reduced   dependency during the initial stage . While doing so we are also keeping an eye on unnecessary drag of   the tasks , doing unintended work etc . This also helps to see that as we reach project deadlines , no one   task becomes a bottleneck or impedes other tasks . 

 The second launch being - splitting the team into two smaller teams due to different time zones . The   smaller teams are such that there is reduced dependency in the tasks between these two teams . One or   two members coordinate between the teams to clarify the tasks or discuss impediments , and the entire   team meets up only when required . 

 Insight & Approach 

 We have time framed to deliver the project part by part . This will help in seeing tasks accomplished in bits   and make any corrections without waiting until the end of the project . By time framing , we demo the   tasks after 2 or 3 weeks of sprint to the stakeholders and collect feedback , incorporate it during the next   sprint . 

 Our approach to split tasks and start parallel has helped us to keep all the resources engaged and   productive . For some teammates , the tasks are minimal , for some it sounds irrelevant , but when we sit   for an overall discussion - many do involve and is helping in clarifying things in this initial stage so that   going further work would flow easily . There is enough time for corrections and redesigning certain part of   the project , while few tasks can not be touched again . 

 Along with the main ongoing project , we have adhoc requests coming in ; handling these adhoc requests   is another challenge to be considered amidst the ongoing project . As the project task is time framed ,   inclusion of adhoc requests is posing a challenge . We are working to have buffer times to handle adhoc   requests in the middle of the sprints . 

 Our second launch of splitting the team and coordinating work has burdened those coordinating between   teams . Sometimes it is leading to confusions for the coordinator and dragging . It is also leading to   increased meetings and discussions . We will have to reconsider if this does not work as expected . 

 Let Design Thinking help people to innovate and develop better ideas to serve their organizations and the   society . 


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ID_NUM: 
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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: Design Thinking : Assignment 

 Design Thinking has helped me develop perspectives that might have not occurred otherwise . I look   forward to apply it in my everyday life - both personal and professional . My selection of tool is Learning   Launch . 

 Learning Launch :   Accomplish – While you test your ideas ! 

 Challenge 

 In our organization , we are part of a new project group of 12 members formed to accomplish a data   insight end - to - end module ; we have to take every stakeholder into confidence right from the financing   team , to business analysts to developers while developing the module . To keep the team motivated about   the value that the project would generate once accomplished and encourage everyone to feed in their   ideas and experience   and most importantly for the time bound project it is , we could risk less in terms of   time experimenting . Our team is spread across two different regions with different time zones . We are to   coordinate to get the work done and deliver the project on time . We face two challenges here , one is   coordination between members spread across region and another being clear definition of the tasks and   activities to complete the project . Also we have to take into account the stakeholders involved , their   expectation of the team and roadmap of the project 

 Selection 

 To accomplish coordination and for effective utilization of the resources during the entire cycle of the   project , we prefer to use learning launch as the tool to experiment , test our ideas and prototypes as we   go ahead getting the actual work done . As we are allowed to experiment a bit , we prefer learning launch   as a tool , as it allows one to make corrections ( at the early stage in case of our project ) and proceed . 

 Application 

 Our first process - in order to not keep any resource idle or less occupied we have broken down the tasks   to be parallely started . The tasks are built to be time bound , tried to keep them independent with reduced   dependency during the initial stage . While doing so we are also keeping an eye on unnecessary drag of   the tasks , doing unintended work etc . This also helps to see that as we reach project deadlines , no one   task becomes a bottleneck or impedes other tasks . 

 The second launch being - splitting the team into two smaller teams due to different time zones . The   smaller teams are such that there is reduced dependency in the tasks between these two teams . One or   two members coordinate between the teams to clarify the tasks or discuss impediments , and the entire   team meets up only when required . 

 Insight & Approach 

 We have time framed to deliver the project part by part . This will help in seeing tasks accomplished in bits   and make any corrections without waiting until the end of the project . By time framing , we demo the   tasks after 2 or 3 weeks of sprint to the stakeholders and collect feedback , incorporate it during the next   sprint . 

 Our approach to split tasks and start parallel has helped us to keep all the resources engaged and   productive . For some teammates , the tasks are minimal , for some it sounds irrelevant , but when we sit   for an overall discussion - many do involve and is helping in clarifying things in this initial stage so that   going further work would flow easily . There is enough time for corrections and redesigning certain part of   the project , while few tasks can not be touched again . 

 Along with the main ongoing project , we have adhoc requests coming in ; handling these adhoc requests   is another challenge to be considered amidst the ongoing project . As the project task is time framed ,   inclusion of adhoc requests is posing a challenge . We are working to have buffer times to handle adhoc   requests in the middle of the sprints . 

 Our second launch of splitting the team and coordinating work has burdened those coordinating between   teams . Sometimes it is leading to confusions for the coordinator and dragging . It is also leading to   increased meetings and discussions . We will have to reconsider if this does not work as expected . 

 Let Design Thinking help people to innovate and develop better ideas to serve their organizations and the   society .
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