by herluma2024 | Dec 21, 2024 | Herluma 2024, Reflections, Uncategorized
thatIt’s astonishing to think of the three of us four months ago: unsure of how we would interact as a team and overwhelmed with the enormity of the wicked problem we were faced with. Four months later—four months of meetings with shelter staff, of coding and...
by herluma2024 | Dec 2, 2024 | Herluma 2024, Reflections
In previous sprints, we’ve been gathering feedback through back and forth emails with the manager over at VNFC, the shelter trialing our site, but in this sprint we were finally able to meet in person. It quickly proved to be more fruitful and rewarding to collect...
by herluma2024 | Nov 18, 2024 | Herluma 2024, Reflections, Uncategorized
Things did not go according to plan in this sprint. In order to begin soliciting and implementing feedback, we needed both shelters that we had met with in the last sprint, VNFC and Sandy Merriman, to trial the site in their shelters. And while VNFC has been using our...
by herluma2024 | Oct 28, 2024 | Herluma 2024, Reflections, Uncategorized
This was an optimistic sprint. We met with two shelters, Victoria Native Friendship Centre (VNFC) and Sandy Merriman House, and both were receptive to our idea and indicated an enthusiasm for implementing it. This exhilarated us beyond measure. Shelter managers...
by herluma2024 | Oct 12, 2024 | Herluma 2024, Reflections
Dissatisfied by the rate of responses from shelters in the last sprint, we resolved to fast-track getting prototype feedback sessions by bypassing management altogether and talking directly with front-desk staff. However, our Community Partner tempered these...
by herluma2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | Herluma 2024, Reflections
On the first day of our second sprint, we created a Gantt chart, and were fairly pleased with it—here was a centralized location where we could visualize the entire trajectory of our project, and it looked achievable. We sketched out ample room for iterative...
