Creating the future
- Ben
- Mar 28, 2017
- 1 min read
As this project progresses into its final half, our sprint demonstrations have been morphing into more practical workshops!
Rather than simply hold workshops to consult with staff and students, and then go away and make something based on those conversations, our process has been to get UTS team members involved in the opportunities as they turn into real products and services, so that these initiatives have institutional ownership and ongoing teams behind them. We like to see people voting with their feet.
Earlier in the week, a cross-faculty, cross-unit team converged to prioritise all the open opportunities based on an impact/effort matrix. By the end of the sprint, the front-runners — a student peer support system for internships and an employer toolkit — were in enough of a tangible form that during the sprint demo, Julieanne (manager of UTS:Careers) spontaneously decided to pull in some visiting employers into an impromptu testing session!
We're also really excited that numerous Careers staff dropped in for a chat after the demo to share new ideas that had occurred to them in the aftermath.
The draft UTS Internship Manifesto also went up on the UTS:Careers office wall for feedback and ideas — we've gotten a tonne of comments and suggestions already, and faculty staff are also welcome to drop by Careers to make their input in physical form.
Lastly, we've started putting together a roadmap of how we see the outcomes of this project unfolding after it finishes. If you have a pet concept that didn't get a high priority in this phase of work, note that "Long term initiatives" start small and ramp up over time.
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