Assignment Rubric – Visualization 

 Challenge and Selection 

 Being a Technical Specialist , I always prefer visualization to better explain and understand any given   problem and its solution . It helps to get into the details and to stay focused within the scope . I do practice   visualizing the problem a bit and then the solution to the product owners and business analysts of a Travel   Company , where in it helps to identify the riskiest assumptions and taking up any futuristic topics to a   whiteboard parking lot . In addition , it helps to identify the pain points , opens up new opportunities in   extending the solutions to make the best out of it . Visualizing also helps while explaining the technical   design to the team of software developers , working on implementing the solutions . 

 Application 

 During the development and maintenance cycle for a year , there were multiple issues with the project   and redundant tasks carried out by few teams . The customer came up with an issue “ Delivered artifacts   does not meet the agreed scope as per contract ” . We had multiple level of internal discussions , technical   and managerial team came up with huge estimates over months to deliver the solution . Since , there was   not enough surplus budget to deliver the solution and they end up being hypnosis . 

 To resolve the issue , I thought have more insight to the problem . 1 ) Took few meeting with the customer   manager regarding their delivery schedules to buy time . 2 ) Had more discussions to deep dive into the   problem that they were facing . Everyone has the same thought and to get a solution from us being the   service provider . Based on the discussion , prepared a spreadsheet and shared it with customer tech leads   to answer a questionnaire with few yes / no questions , it was quick response . With all their feedback , 3 )   prepared a technical presentation with a strategic solution to address their exact issue and a value add in   the same presentation that could ease out few more issues . They had very comments with add - ons , this   made me to revisit and share the final approach incorporating all their requests . 

 Later , with the feedback from the technical team . I prepared a separate presentation from managerial ,   which had more details about the results on the strategic solution , also projecting the value add with   statistics . In addition , the timeline for the strategic solution with value add features were 10 days , which   played a major part in getting all approvals from the customer and internally organization . It has also fit   in the left budget and still profitable to the organization compared with previous huge estimates . 

 With the success from the lateral approach , took another change to present a solution , which would   reduce monthly budget spent on database resource for the customer on monthly basis in BAU Tracks by   approaching to the problem with a solution . Initially I just had a thought and sent an email to know the   interest area of the customer ’s technical project managers . In reply , he was very much impressed with   the solution enabling team being self - serving for their configuration updates without outages in live   environments . 

 1 ) Prepared the categorization of sensitive and non - sensitive data , simple workflow for the user 

 request approvals . 

 2 ) Presented the design with the technical presentation for technical and functional group with 

 number and potential increase in efficiency . 

 3 ) Finally ! The cost involved and the results in reduced monthly spends ! 

 The customer approved design , but there was a catch with the strict timeline and resource . This time as a   team , we prepared a k - map to resolve the issue by restructuring the approach with horizontal loading of   resource and vertical timeline with interval . The execution plan as well structured as custom k - map and a   state diagram to share with customer and they were happy ! . Quarterly results increased the revenue and   our company received the award as the best service provider amongst the competitors . 

 Insight and Approach 

 All these expertize has increased the interests over design thinking and made our team to apply in all   basis . Visualizing the thought to the audience helped acting as a catalyst in thought processing of the   participants among various group either from technical or functional background . This build a stage from   them to come up and share their thoughts , collaboratively it resulted in agreeing on a high value   deliverable and riskiest assumption on every move leading to success . The visuals and designs been   circulated easily and it helped in articulating various solutions reach the stakeholder quickly . Building   stage maps , helped in gaining more confidence with the senior stakeholders by visualizing the results with   timeline . 

 Many other projects in our accounts started presenting state diagrams with their bids and solutions   receiving more attraction towards our company . This helps the audience to decide on next big moves   based on the current needs . In addition , it helped build strong relationships with customer on a longer   run . 


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: Assignment Rubric – Visualization 

 Challenge and Selection 

 Being a Technical Specialist , I always prefer visualization to better explain and understand any given   problem and its solution . It helps to get into the details and to stay focused within the scope . I do practice   visualizing the problem a bit and then the solution to the product owners and business analysts of a Travel   Company , where in it helps to identify the riskiest assumptions and taking up any futuristic topics to a   whiteboard parking lot . In addition , it helps to identify the pain points , opens up new opportunities in   extending the solutions to make the best out of it . Visualizing also helps while explaining the technical   design to the team of software developers , working on implementing the solutions . 

 Application 

 During the development and maintenance cycle for a year , there were multiple issues with the project   and redundant tasks carried out by few teams . The customer came up with an issue “ Delivered artifacts   does not meet the agreed scope as per contract ” . We had multiple level of internal discussions , technical   and managerial team came up with huge estimates over months to deliver the solution . Since , there was   not enough surplus budget to deliver the solution and they end up being hypnosis . 

 To resolve the issue , I thought have more insight to the problem . 1 ) Took few meeting with the customer   manager regarding their delivery schedules to buy time . 2 ) Had more discussions to deep dive into the   problem that they were facing . Everyone has the same thought and to get a solution from us being the   service provider . Based on the discussion , prepared a spreadsheet and shared it with customer tech leads   to answer a questionnaire with few yes / no questions , it was quick response . With all their feedback , 3 )   prepared a technical presentation with a strategic solution to address their exact issue and a value add in   the same presentation that could ease out few more issues . They had very comments with add - ons , this   made me to revisit and share the final approach incorporating all their requests . 

 Later , with the feedback from the technical team . I prepared a separate presentation from managerial ,   which had more details about the results on the strategic solution , also projecting the value add with   statistics . In addition , the timeline for the strategic solution with value add features were 10 days , which   played a major part in getting all approvals from the customer and internally organization . It has also fit   in the left budget and still profitable to the organization compared with previous huge estimates . 

 With the success from the lateral approach , took another change to present a solution , which would   reduce monthly budget spent on database resource for the customer on monthly basis in BAU Tracks by   approaching to the problem with a solution . Initially I just had a thought and sent an email to know the   interest area of the customer ’s technical project managers . In reply , he was very much impressed with   the solution enabling team being self - serving for their configuration updates without outages in live   environments . 

 1 ) Prepared the categorization of sensitive and non - sensitive data , simple workflow for the user 

 request approvals . 

 2 ) Presented the design with the technical presentation for technical and functional group with 

 number and potential increase in efficiency . 

 3 ) Finally ! The cost involved and the results in reduced monthly spends ! 

 The customer approved design , but there was a catch with the strict timeline and resource . This time as a   team , we prepared a k - map to resolve the issue by restructuring the approach with horizontal loading of   resource and vertical timeline with interval . The execution plan as well structured as custom k - map and a   state diagram to share with customer and they were happy ! . Quarterly results increased the revenue and   our company received the award as the best service provider amongst the competitors . 

 Insight and Approach 

 All these expertize has increased the interests over design thinking and made our team to apply in all   basis . Visualizing the thought to the audience helped acting as a catalyst in thought processing of the   participants among various group either from technical or functional background . This build a stage from   them to come up and share their thoughts , collaboratively it resulted in agreeing on a high value   deliverable and riskiest assumption on every move leading to success . The visuals and designs been   circulated easily and it helped in articulating various solutions reach the stakeholder quickly . Building   stage maps , helped in gaining more confidence with the senior stakeholders by visualizing the results with   timeline . 

 Many other projects in our accounts started presenting state diagrams with their bids and solutions   receiving more attraction towards our company . This helps the audience to decide on next big moves   based on the current needs . In addition , it helped build strong relationships with customer on a longer   run .
### Output: 