Presenting my work

I am thinking a lot about my poster these days, as it looks like I will be using it more than once. I have mentioned the technology showcase to my supervisors on several occasions. This week they told me about an initiative to create a larger internship program at the company, and asked if I might be willing to present the poster I am making. Their thought is that other departments may not have thought about how interns can be incorporated into operations. Me presenting what I did for project managers could pave the way for more interns in the future.

I want to make a really great poster so I am thinking a lot about how to use images instead of text. One idea I came up with is to represent my findings from interviews regarding status reports in the following way:
I'm also thinking about making a timeline and workflow diagram to visually represent how my time went. I think I may also be able to visualize some of the data I collected from the card sorting activity. Does this sound like a good plan for a poster. I'm teaching a class this weekend for fellow students on making capstone posters so if you have any good examples, resources, ideas, or advice for posters, I would love to share them.

Adding instruction

This week I decided to help fulfill one of the recommendations that I am making to help keep the wiki up to date. My first recommendation is to make sure that everyone knows how to edit and update the wiki. From very early on in this project, each time I was finishing up one part of the project and talking with my supervisors about the next steps, I have been suggesting that I add some instructional content on how to edit the wiki. Every time, this suggestion got pushed off for other things “within the scope.” My supervisor would point out that the wiki service that we use has a Help section. But the Help section is hard to navigate and it took me some time to figure out how to do things like upload documents and edit documents that have already been uploaded. I know that PMs are not going to spend much time to learn how to do what they need to do. And for me, it is important that people all contribute to the wiki. Otherwise, what’s the point of putting it in a wiki? This week, I finished up what I was working on and had time to create a quick lesson in how to edit an uploaded document and post it.