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Reflection of Visaualization

Challenge

I would talk about the tool of Visualization. In my case,I worked for a company as a Scrum Master(One of an

agile role) in Japan ,which has a lot of software engineers from abroad.There were more than 500 people from

abroad.We had a lot of background in our own there. I could get oppotunities to work in diverse environment.

Anyway,the point is we needed to take more effort to be on the same page than we are in a usual environment

in Japanese IT company. We do not have diverse environment in most of companies in Japan,as far as I

concerned. In the condition,we tried to avoid missunderstanding more carefully. In order to do so,we used

visualization tools such as UML and Product Backlog.Former tool is to show system's sequence and its flow

visually.Latter is to visualise product's priority. Applying them,we could be on the same page before we use

them.

Selection

According to the video,the tool of Visualization can aline our understanding better than we use only verbal

communication.

Visualization is meant to be a making common understanding tool for me on my job and role. It can show us

relationship between objects.It can show higherchy and architecture of objects.

Why I selected this tool is that I need to think deeper that we can share our imagination and thoughts and

solution efficiently to our team members.

In order to desceribe and tell our thoughts or our systems or our priorities to team members,we use

visualization tools for our better understandings. After applying Visualization methods,We can have beeter

images in our mind.

Application

When we use visualization tool to be on the same page it should be below cases.

For instance,if we use UML in software development,we can understand which and when a module or a service

can access each other easily.Because,when we describe such kind of sentences,there are many similar objects

and similar prepositions will be used. Sentances are like "A service is accessed by xxx","B service call A service

when yyy" and so on. Thses are complicated and wasting time to understand. So we use common modeling

language such as UML. What is more, it has some modeling frame works such as sequence diagram and

workflow diagram and so on.

In addition to UML,when we put priorities for tasks,we use Product Backlog List.We can sort priorities on the

board(List board) Priorities should be decided by some factors which are emaergency,business impact and

ease/difficulty. We put tasks on the same swim lane and it should be only one lane and we can sort all tasks by

our priorities finally. Even we have lots of tasks, we can focus on higher priortized tasks easily and visiblly.

Insight

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Empathy and priorities are vague,invisible and abstract. System architecture as well. In my mind,Visualization is

like to concreat ideas and thought. Or to make them visible. Also the point is to share ambiguous thought. We

are poorer at telling something to others worse than we recognise. As a point of techniques,we are poor at

doing it. In addition to the fact,we have different background,even grow up in the same contory same place.In

my case,we did not grow up in the same contry.

In order to make less missunderstanding. We should apply better tools and make variety of efforts to share

insight. Using these tools,we can also add transparency in our business. Transparency gives us more

trustworthiness. Trustworthiness gives us better understandings. It can make good business cycle for us.

Approach

I might have mentioned that visualization was one of the answers to share our insight. However,it is not the only

answer,I think. I was like trying not to use verbal communication but it is not what I tried to tell. Visualization is

just an aspect of telling our though. Combining to verbal communication like face to face comunication and

body language. It put much better understandings for each of us. We need to try not to forget seeking better

way to share our opinions and minds.

