LEARNING LAUNCH

Challenge:

our organization that specializes in robotics design and manufacturing, also we  started a replacement remotely platform during the pandemic year to remote all of  our work. my/our challenge is to enhance the workflow like activities, Tasks delivery,  and project milestones delivery within the designing department so as to extend  productivity within the online channel and to deliver all tasks on time. The project  scope includes the web platform and every one milestones manager composed of 4  managers and 14 designers, also because the larger designing department and  development department, with whom we work closely. The project is restricted to  internal resources (i.e., budget and designers' time). The project shouldn't exceed 10  business days and therefore the solution should include a good distribution of  working hours amongst the team members. we'll specialize in trying to uncover what  our team members, also as key stakeholders within the larger designing department  and development department, concede to be ineffective or problematic with  reference to the workflow.

Selection:

Our team has already skilled several design thinking tools, so we are able to try the  learning launch tool. broadly, the learning launch is an experiment meant to quickly  test a thought and prototype.

Application:

For our first learning launch, we focused on the structure/execution of our online  designing tasks. especially, we wanted to ascertain if we could structure our tasks,  projects, and processes to adapt the methods of agile project management for our  work (e.g., time-boxed, daily, specific meetings, reviews, etc.) in an attempt to  become more scrum. This tested our assumption that the structure and execution  were the most causes of our workflow challenge. Our team went through a full-day  training with a Scrum project management trainer. Next, we went through some  workshops to structure our tasks and processes during a more agile way. These two  sessions occurred within a 4 days’ timeframe. We expected to supply a document  with a transparent description of our new, more agile processes/workflow.

For our second learning launch, we focused on gaining clarity about our tasks and  priorities. This tested our assumption that our prioritization of tasks was the most  explanation for our workflow challenge. Our team completed an anonymous survey.  Additionally, four key stakeholders from the designing department and development  department also completed an anonymous survey. The surveys included questions on  our new, proposed process, understanding the method and therefore the  prioritization of tasks, and feelings about the change, and were conducted within a  two days’ timeframe.

Insight:

By applying the learning launch tool, our team identified our assumptions and  designed launches to check these assumptions. Additionally, we thought through  anticipated results, expecting to seek out that a more agile approach would improve  our workflow, which both our team and therefore the key stakeholders would be  fairly receptive the new prioritization of tasks and process.

Our actual results were slightly different from what we anticipated: while our team  was receptive the prioritization of tasks and process, the key stakeholders within the  designing department and development department expressed some concerns.  Moving forward, our team will review this insight and incorporate it into future launch  designs. the continued incorporation of insight is especially important at this stage,  as launches precede a full rollout within the design thinking timeline.

Approach:

Given that our team has already skilled several design thinking activities/tools and  are at this stage within the timeline, the learning launch is that the appropriate tool.  As previously mentioned, our team must review the insight gained from our first two  launches and incorporate this insight into future launch designs. Future launch  designs should reflect insight gained, progress made, and are available closer to a  compelling solution ready for full rollout.

