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Week 3: Brainstorming

After an invaluable workshop from Florida Power and Light about process improvement with Six Sigma, our team began to organize exactly what we needed to tackle to get our project moving. This started with a brainstorming session: the blue post-it notes were potential problems that we could face with our final product, and the pink notes represented the solutions.

Additionally, we assessed potential risks and brainstormed how to minimize and mitigate them. Next, we conceptualized a project roadmap and began adding to our product backlog on our team Jira. We also began thinking of ways to design our user interface, as well as began researching algorithms for resource constrained project scheduling.

Our next step is to continue the ideation, brainstorming, and research of these components.

Week 2: Next Steps

After finalizing our logo (see below) and learning about ideation, we finally had the opportunity to meet with our liaison!

Team Stratagem’s Logo

This week was all about getting to know our project. It started with a review of our Scope of Work, and progressed into a discussion of our Project Needs and Specifications. We were able to have a multitude of our questions answered, and we’re ready to tackle the next steps of our project: creating a project roadmap and researching open-source scheduling algorithms.

Week 1: Forming Stratagem

It has begun!

We’re excited to start working with CAE and our coach this IPPD year. Our team, Stratagem, is working on an AI-assisted scheduler, where we aim to use machine learning to optimize project scheduling.

We’ve hit the ground running with the initial phase of our project. So far, we’ve began development of our team logo, finalized our team role, and assigned roles:

Yuri Gelli: Team Leader, Finance and Travel Coordinator
Matthew Davis: Research Librarian
Rachel McCallum: Webmaster
Thomas Weber: Template Manager
Caleigh Zaguirre: Scribe, Facilitator
William Zhu: Timekeeper

We also met with our project coach and scheduled our first official meeting with our company liaison.

Our first draft for our team’s logo.

That’s it for Stratagem’s first week. We’re just getting started!