Terry Rees – MA Creative App Development
That’s much better!
Now that I have visibility of each task (rather than at a weekly topic level) I can see exactly where I am.
I can now use this board to properly plan and review my weekly sprints, and organise myself more efficiently, and so I consider my SMART goal from week 9 to be achieved.
It’s also quite nice to be able to slide each card to the right, as it helps to garner a satisfying feeling of accomplishment.
I have used the Trello tutorial to set up a board (essentially a Kanban board) for my coursework, but it isn’t currently working for me. I see the benefits of using a board, but I’ve structured it in a way that doesn’t provide clear visibility of the tasks. I used a card for each week of the course, with tasks listed within it, making it difficult for me to see task-level detail. Consequently I haven’t used or updated the board since.
By 14th April I will have a restructured Trello board, using a card per task, and grouping them into relevant weeks, and categories with a colour key, to give full task-level visibility.
A well-structured Trello board will help me plan and implement weekly sprints to manage my progress more effectively. Moving cards to the right will also provide an element of motivation for me.
I will add a card for each of the tasks from the entire module and assign a colour to categorise it, to group tasks according to the course week, or goal that it relates to. I will then prioritise the tasks and move each card to the appropriate status lane. I will then continue to use the board on an ongoing basis to chart my progress. Tutor/study group feedback might also prove helpful. So, I will commit to the following SMART goal:
I will improve my project and time management by restructuring my Trello board, using a card for each task, categorised with a colour key.
The success of the restructure will be measured by how effectively it serves me going forward. Further adaptation will occur as part of the ongoing board management process.
Time is the only constraining factor, but the restructure should only take me around 2 hours.
A well-structured Trello board will help me to better manage my progress throughout the course, and beyond.
This will be achieved by 14th April
This week, we are looking at technologies that are new to the market, or at least in the early stages of adoption, and thinking about how they can be used to develop creative and unique solutions to disrupt the market.
I was interested to learn of some of the projects discussed during the provided videos. The realms of possibility are so much bigger than I had appreciated, and expanding rapidly. It really is quite astounding to imagine where future technological evolution might take us.
For my intended startup, I would like to eventually incorporate elements of big data, internet of things, and machine learning. I want to develop a capability to collect and store behavioural data that can then be utilised with predictive analytics to provide tightly focused and efficient marketing channels. This data science driven approach will identify the users that are likely to respond to different types of offers, and consequently yield far higher return on investment results (minimising wasted marketing spend) for the marketers, while improving the quality of offers that each user is exposed to.
While I have many years experience with data analysis, I am not currently sufficiently knowledgeable to build a predictive analytics engine. I need to know more about big data analytics, machine learning, and data science in general, in order to to be able to fully integrate this functionality and generate an additional, and potentially very lucrative, revenue stream for my intended business venture.
I intend to explore these areas over the duration of rest of the course. I will find some relevant books to read, and consider taking a relevant online course. However, I appreciate that this is opening up an enormous area of study, and my priority right now is to become proficient with Flutter, and so I will not put any time restraints on my investigations into the data science aspects at this point.
My Journey to App Success 