| Deadline: | Midnight (23:59), Tuesday 13th February 2024 |
| Weight: | 0% |
| Format: | PDF or Word |
| Where to submit: | On Learn |
General instructions
- Assume you are writing your report for someone who did not see your Design Sprint presentation.
- Aim to produce a report of about 4-5 pages long, double-spaced plus diagrams and references.
The remainder of this document is a skeleton that explains the content that you should aim to include in your report. You can use it directly as the starting point for writing your report. (A Word document version of this information is available on Learn).
1. Introduction
Briefly describe the sub-theme that your team is addressing, together with the specific problem area that you are looking at.
2. What do you know about your problem area?
Stakeholders: Which individuals, groups and organisations are most relevant to the problem area and may be important for addressing it?
Engagement: How did you engage with stakeholders during the Design Sprint?
Data: What data did you collect for the Design Sprint? What methods did you use to collect it, and how are you dealing with data management? What other datasets, if any, did you use? How did you access them, and what are their properties (e.g., format, geographical and temporal coverage, relevance)?
Secondary research: What information exists about this issues?
3. Initial Interpretation
Tell us at least three things about your problem area that you found out during the Design Sprint. For each of the things you learned, relate it back to the data that you discussed in the preceding section.
Consider what is the most relevant way of presenting this information. Try to use some simple visualisations, even if it is just a simple bar-chart. You can reuse any materials that you and your team developed for your Design Sprint presentation.
4. Evaluation
How useful is the information that you’ve gathered so far for understanding your sub-theme and your specific problem area? Be honest and critical about the data that you’ve used. How complete is it? Do you think there are shortcomings in it?
5. Next Steps
What do you think needs to be done next in order to get a deeper understanding of your problem area? What additional evidence would you like to collect? What questions do you want to explore?
6. Reflections
What has been your personal experience of working on this project to date?
If you’re stuck in writing this section, some of the issues you might think about are:
- How have you dealt with challenges of engaging with people at your site.
- What has been your experience of working within a team and sharing out work, responsibilities and roles?
- What aspects of the course have worked well for you, and what would you like to see changed?
- Your contribution: Say what your personal contribution was to the team effort during the Design Sprint.
7. Conclusions
Summarise overall what you personally, and your team, have accomplished so far. This part of your report should draw together the main threads of your report. Try to emphasise four key ‘take home’ points for the reader.
