This week:
This week we have have utilized the concrete thinking of last weeks work to look forward but yet backwards. That sounds pretty abstract and bland, however bear with us. As we realized that we ought to narrow down the project from a very futuristic "all-in-all" project to a concrete and centralized point we started to thin down the fog of project immersion. We decided that focus should not be on the whole "solution of information" but the sharing bit. How we access the information is not really the issue at the moment, even though it would be nice with a serendipitous solution. The problem at hand is that a very small segment of people taking advantage of information online on forums and online encyclopedias are actually contributing, i.e. collaborating. So the focus has steadily shifted towards solving that aspect of the future of information. This is somewhat of a breakthrough in an otherwise relatively abstract vision of the future. With this clearing in the fog we have progressed to actually get work done on the presentation and report which are well on the way. We started to look forward at this point. By that we mean that we started thinking: What are the main points of the project we want to convey on the final presentation? We made a long list and sub points to the main points. By looking at what we would like to present we started to analyze where we are and subsequently knew what parts we needed to focus on to reach those goals. This was very helpful, because if you just go along without an eye on the finished result one will get bogged down in details in eternity. Now we know exactly what is needed to be done, and it feels good and clear. Somewhat of a rarity in an otherwise abstract project.
We handed out different tasks to be responsible for until an internal deadline, well before the official ones so we can polish the work. This really feels as though each member knows basically what they should do. The report, presentation and vision are close to be completed and it feels good. The future.. isn't as dim as dome would like you to believe.
This week we have have utilized the concrete thinking of last weeks work to look forward but yet backwards. That sounds pretty abstract and bland, however bear with us. As we realized that we ought to narrow down the project from a very futuristic "all-in-all" project to a concrete and centralized point we started to thin down the fog of project immersion. We decided that focus should not be on the whole "solution of information" but the sharing bit. How we access the information is not really the issue at the moment, even though it would be nice with a serendipitous solution. The problem at hand is that a very small segment of people taking advantage of information online on forums and online encyclopedias are actually contributing, i.e. collaborating. So the focus has steadily shifted towards solving that aspect of the future of information. This is somewhat of a breakthrough in an otherwise relatively abstract vision of the future. With this clearing in the fog we have progressed to actually get work done on the presentation and report which are well on the way. We started to look forward at this point. By that we mean that we started thinking: What are the main points of the project we want to convey on the final presentation? We made a long list and sub points to the main points. By looking at what we would like to present we started to analyze where we are and subsequently knew what parts we needed to focus on to reach those goals. This was very helpful, because if you just go along without an eye on the finished result one will get bogged down in details in eternity. Now we know exactly what is needed to be done, and it feels good and clear. Somewhat of a rarity in an otherwise abstract project.
We handed out different tasks to be responsible for until an internal deadline, well before the official ones so we can polish the work. This really feels as though each member knows basically what they should do. The report, presentation and vision are close to be completed and it feels good. The future.. isn't as dim as dome would like you to believe.
Sounds good then. Make sure that everyone knows exactly what to do, and have a clear time plan at hand. This will be helpful to you, because there are many deadlines to meet. Good luck with the continuation of your work.
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