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Project log

Reflection on team experience/project contribution

Each entry will comprise a 200 word reflection on your team experience/project contribution since your last reflection/the start of semester. Structure each entry using the DIEP method.

Note that your entries don't have to include references. Rather they should reflect on your learning in the course and link it to your career aspiration.
At four key points during semester, you will complete a reflective project log.

1. Team and project orientation - complete a reflection on your experience of team and project orientation during week 2 of semester.

2. Gateway 1 - complete a reflection on the Gateway 1 experience in week 5 once you receive your feedback.

3. Gateway 2 - complete a reflection on the Gateway 2 experience in week 9 once you receive your feedback.

4. Semester review - complete a reflection on your project and team experience this semester just prior to the due date in week 11.

Reflection 1 ( the concept of "UX/Design" ) (some hints: no business can become or stay a leader unless it prioritizes and invests in developing a user experience that fulfills its customers' requirements - better understand its customers' behaviour, as well as their thoughts and preferences, in order to enhance customer happiness and loyalty - U/X design increases customer conversion - This concept will be helpful to me in my future work. It will allow me to understand what customers want, what their needs are, how they will use the product, and thus, this knowledge will allow me to perform well in my future work etc.)

Reflection 2 ( the concept of a "stand up meeting" ) (some hints: summarize what I did during the last period of the project and what I will do in the next period in a report to my project manager in just 30 seconds only etc.)

Reflection 3 ( keep up the momentum - Following the project plan + in the middle of the semester and there is a lot of assignment and challenges etc.)

Reflection 4 (teamwork + synergy within the team to achieve our goal + collaboration and communication within a team etc.)

DIEP STRATEGY

DIEP* is a strategy to help with writing a critical or academic reflection in four paragraphs.
The four steps in this approach are to describe an insight (new understanding), to interpret and evaluate it, andto
plan how it might transfer to future practice or learning.
First, select an experience or insight to reflect on. Then attempt to:
• analyse your learning and deepening understanding
• evaluate your gains in understanding and development, while acknowledging any complexities
• integrate the concepts taught in courses (including references to the literature, where relevant)
• focus on your developing confidence and cognition, and verbalise your feelings about your learning
• make connections with theories in your course and/or program, and other relevant ideas/experiences
• demonstrate transfer of learning to your study, practice, and to your future professional life.

D - Describe objectively what you learned
Choose a new insight. It might be something that you understand now (that you didn't before). Focus on what you learned and give the details of what happened.
Answer the question: ‘What did I learn?'

I - Interpret the insight (in one or more paragraphs)
Explain the meaning of the new insight: your understanding/ hypotheses/ conclusions/ connections with other learning/ possible complexities/ questions unanswered/ etc. You can refer to ideas and theory in your course material, in research literature and from other sources to support your explanation of the insight/s. Answer the questions: ‘What might it mean?' ‘How might this affect other perceptions, concepts, etc.?'

E - Evaluate what you have learned (in one or more paragraphs)
Make judgments about the value of what you have learned connected to observations you have made. Refer to theory from your courses and the literature here too, to show how your insight is connected to discipline knowledge and how your thinking has changed for the better.
Answer the question: ‘How is this useful for my deeper understanding of the topic?'

P - Plan how this learning will be applied in practice
Comment on relevance to your course, program, future profession, life...
Answer the question: ‘How might this learning apply in my future?' Use future tense in this paragraph to show transfer of knowledge to the future.