We initially made our idea as effective communication because we think that would be helpful for the users, because business students are always working with teams. We also picked the topic as our presentation.
In order to present a user-friendly and creative guidance, our team leveraged the following R Markdown features:
timevis package
css background formating
css toc formating
adding website links with photos
theme customization
For GitHub, Joe is responsible for initialization for the working environment. After he set up everything, he helped each member of our team is able to push and pull in r studio to update work to the repository. Besides, we demonstrate our product by using github repository website.
A third of the way through the development of this project, we conducted interviews with our peers and other Ross students to get an understanding of what type of information the users of this website want and what resources and tools would be helpful to them. To pick these users we thought about the types of individuals that would be looking for information about effective communication. We decided that our users were prospective and current MBAn and Ross students and MBAn and Ross alumni who are looking for jobs in analytics.
Throughout this process, we found that students do not need to learn how to communicate and collaborate effectively but they want to learn how to communicate effectively when they are networking, writing their resumes, and interviewing for different jobs. This includes learning about specific vocabulary related to data and analytics. Through this interview process we asked our users about what information and resources they felt were not available to them. Once we completed these interviews we met as a team and decided to change the scope of our project.
As a team, we utilized the information we gathered during the user story interviews we conducted to change the scope of our project from effective communication and collaboration to effective communication in analytics recruiting. Once we changed the scope of our project we came together as a team to brainstorm how to organized our new project. We created an outline and presented it to some of the individuals we interviewed for our users stories and got some more feedback and made those changes to ensure that our product could be used a helpful resource for our users.