Reflection - Learning Launches

Challenge

I am a researcher and designer in my job and my / our challenge is to improve the workflow (projects  and research activity) within the department to produce research products that impact the company  in terms of producing commercially viable research products. The scope of the research project  includes several researchers comprising mechanical designers, analytical researchers, programmers  for digital app , with whom we work closely directly or underectly. This project is limited to internal  resources (i.e., the types of products that can be utilized). The project should not exceed one year of  business and the solution should include distribution of working hours among team members. We  will focus our efforts on exposing what our team members, as well as key stakeholders in materials  research and design research on mechanical design and app design, find to be ineffective or  problematic with workflows.

Selection

Our team has been through a number of design thinking / activities, so we are ready to try out the  learning launch tool. In general, learning launches are experiments that aim to test ideas and  prototypes quickly  to achieve a shared understanding of a problem space among a diverse group of  stakeholders before attempting to identify and define possible solutions to the problem. I use this  approach often with our customers, who are custodian and user working to apply technology  innovations to modernize their mission or the delivery of their services to their customer

Application

For our first learning launch, we focused on the structure / task of identifying new materials for our  products. Specifically, we want to see if we can tailor our tasks, projects and processes to tailor our  Scrum project management methodology (for example, timelines, daily, specific meetings, reviews,  etc.) in an effort to be more agile. This tests our assumption that structure and implementation are  the main cause of our workflow challenges. Our team has two days of training with Scrum project  management coaches. In addition, we completed five workshops to organize our tasks and processes  in a more streamlined way and furthered our training in the use of design tools and training  simulations for new types of materials. These three sessions take place over a three-week period. We  look forward to producing documents with a clear description of our new process / workflow.

For the launch of our second learning, we focus on getting clarity on our tasks and priorities. This  tests our assumption that our job priorities are the main cause of our workflow challenges. Our team  completed a survey with several meetings and meetings to gather information from custodion. In  addition, several key stakeholders from existing product factories are conducting surveys to obtain  more accurate information. The review included questions about the proposed new process,  understanding the process and priorities of the task, and feelings about the change, and was  conducted within a few weeks.

Insight

By using learning launch tools, our team identifies assumptions and launches designed to test these  assumptions. In addition, we take the expected results, hoping that a more rigorous approach will  improve our workflow, and our team and key stakeholders will be open to new tasks and processes  priorities. Our results are slightly different from what we expected: while our team is open to  prioritizing tasks and processes, key stakeholders on the project manager share some concerns.  Moving forward, our team will review this vision and incorporate it into a more logical design for

future launches. Ongoing integration of insights is crucial at this stage, as it was launched before the  full launch of the design thinking timeline.

Approach

As our team has gone through a number of design thinking activities / tools and at this point in the  timeline, Since I find that the most valuable aspect is shared learning and learning, this time I will be  using the Beginning Learning Launch activity for a series of design thinking activities . Then reviewing  the lessons that incorporate their feedback can serve as a reference tool throughout the rest of the  work. Learning launches are a great tool. As mentioned earlier, our team needs to review the insights  gained from our first two launches and incorporate these insights into future launch designs. The  design of the future launch should reflect the insights gained, progress made, and closer to an  exciting solution for full launch.

