Week 3: Problems, mishaps & blameless postmortems
Week 3 Materials
Week 3 Goals:
- Address questions on Solution Design
- Share a “Weekly Win”
- Peer review & sharing: Solution Design
- “State of your data” blitz
- Introduction to the blameless postmortem
- Clarifying the problem / gap that your project
addresses
Today’s timeline:
- 1:00 - 1:30 - Reminders, questions & share some
wins / ideas
- 1:30 - 2:00 - Solution design group sharing &
questions / gaps clarified
- 2:00 - 2:10 - Break
- 2:10 - 2:25 - Group time (flash talk prep)
- 2:25 - 3:00 - Flash talks (solution design
overview)
- 3:00 - 3:20 - “State of your data” blitz
- 3:20 - 3:30 - Break
- 3:30 - 4:00 - Mishaps & blameless postmortems
(mini-lecture / discussion)
- 4:00 - 4:15 - What’s your problem? (research
storytelling mini-lecture)
- 4:15 - 4:45 - From background to specific problem /
gap - directed work
- 4:45 - 5:00 - Wrap up & group time
What you should do before
next week:
Draft Problem Statement and Objectives section
of Design & Implementation Plan
Continue work on Solution Design section (full draft expected, or
placeholders where gaps exist)
Next week be prepared to present: