Blog Entry Prompts
Blog 1 Hire Day Blog
1. Describe how the Hire Day went for you. Did you feel like you were given a fair chance, either as CEO or someone being hired? Explain.
2. What will be some moves you will make towards ensuring everyone is on task and engaged in the work that needs to be done? What will be some moves you will make if disagreements come up?
3. What is more important: a strong vision for the company, dedicated workers, or a huge budget? Explain. At this point, what are the best qualities of your company? What are the worst?
4. What are your next steps for this coming week? What are the goals that must be accomplished by the end of next week?
Blog 2 First Interviews Blog
1. Where did you decide to conduct the interviews you did? Why did you choose that site?
2. How did you feel you did as an interviewer? Did the questions you ask provide you useful insight? Name one insight from the customer interviews that surprised you.
3. What was the best question you asked? Why? What was the most useless question you asked? Why? What is one new question that definitely should be asked in the next round of interviews?
4. What is more important: having good interview questions written down, having good people skills, or a lot more time to do the interviews? Explain. Which one of those is your weakest link? Which one is your strongest?
Blog 3 Literature Review Blog
1. Why is it important to research the science concepts behind your project early on? How did your research change your project?
2. How confident are you on actually making a working prototype for your project? Point to some evidence for either just making an MVP or going fully into making a working prototype.
3. If cost were not an issue, what other issues are in the way of actually getting your project to the working prototype level? If cost is the biggest issue getting in your way, then how much money is needed to make this project happen?
4. What are the next steps for your group in the design and building of your Minimal Viable Product?
Blog 4 The Team Dynamics Blog
1.Describe how the team interactions are going for you, so far. Not the entire classroom…just between the people on your team. Would you characterize your team overall as high energy, low energy, motivated, not motivated, contentious and combative, friendly and encouraging, etc? In other words, what adjectives would you use to describe your team?
2. What makes a good leader…a GOOD leader? Have you established clear leadership on the team? Is having clear leadership in the team really needed? Meaning, when can a company be a true team of equals, instead of having one person in charge? Or is that just a myth?
3. How have conflicts been managed, so far? What has been the most effective strategy for keeping everyone on task? Why do you suppose some people are not working effectively on the team? Who would you have fired (if anyone on the team) by now and why?
4. How important are the personalities of your team members to you? Is it important that friendship is fostered in a company team? Or is it better to make everyone competitive with each other? Evaluate how your team is operating right now. What are strategies you want to try to keep everyone progressing forward in the next week?
Blog 5 Carpe Diem
1. Describe how the Hire Day went for you. Did you feel like you were given a fair chance, either as CEO or someone being hired? Explain.
2. What will be some moves you will make towards ensuring everyone is on task and engaged in the work that needs to be done? What will be some moves you will make if disagreements come up?
3. What is more important: a strong vision for the company, dedicated workers, or a huge budget? Explain. At this point, what are the best qualities of your company? What are the worst?
4. What are your next steps for this coming week? What are the goals that must be accomplished by the end of next week?
Blog 2 First Interviews Blog
1. Where did you decide to conduct the interviews you did? Why did you choose that site?
2. How did you feel you did as an interviewer? Did the questions you ask provide you useful insight? Name one insight from the customer interviews that surprised you.
3. What was the best question you asked? Why? What was the most useless question you asked? Why? What is one new question that definitely should be asked in the next round of interviews?
4. What is more important: having good interview questions written down, having good people skills, or a lot more time to do the interviews? Explain. Which one of those is your weakest link? Which one is your strongest?
Blog 3 Literature Review Blog
1. Why is it important to research the science concepts behind your project early on? How did your research change your project?
2. How confident are you on actually making a working prototype for your project? Point to some evidence for either just making an MVP or going fully into making a working prototype.
3. If cost were not an issue, what other issues are in the way of actually getting your project to the working prototype level? If cost is the biggest issue getting in your way, then how much money is needed to make this project happen?
4. What are the next steps for your group in the design and building of your Minimal Viable Product?
Blog 4 The Team Dynamics Blog
1.Describe how the team interactions are going for you, so far. Not the entire classroom…just between the people on your team. Would you characterize your team overall as high energy, low energy, motivated, not motivated, contentious and combative, friendly and encouraging, etc? In other words, what adjectives would you use to describe your team?
2. What makes a good leader…a GOOD leader? Have you established clear leadership on the team? Is having clear leadership in the team really needed? Meaning, when can a company be a true team of equals, instead of having one person in charge? Or is that just a myth?
3. How have conflicts been managed, so far? What has been the most effective strategy for keeping everyone on task? Why do you suppose some people are not working effectively on the team? Who would you have fired (if anyone on the team) by now and why?
4. How important are the personalities of your team members to you? Is it important that friendship is fostered in a company team? Or is it better to make everyone competitive with each other? Evaluate how your team is operating right now. What are strategies you want to try to keep everyone progressing forward in the next week?
Blog 5 Carpe Diem
- How far along would you say you are in finishing your project? Is it necessary to fully finish the project to having a working prototype? What is the difference between an MVP and a working prototype?
- Describe an opportunity that came along to advance your project that you took. How did taking that risk pay off in the end?
- Describe an opportunity that came along to advance your project that you did not take or did not fully advantage of. Why did you make that decision?
- What have you personally done to contribute to the advancement of this project? What could you have done more or better?