We had our kick-off meeting on Friday the 25th of September, where we introduced ourselves to each other and started getting acquainted with the project subject: Soft-body dynamics simulation of DNA. Our team consists of six members, of whom two are systems analysists, two physicists and one information networks engineer, everyone with a programming background.
After the introductions we had some team-building exercises that helped us figure out the direction we are heading and find out about some of our strengths and weaknesses. In one of the exercises we reflected on our preferences of our own roles in a team using FourSight evaluation. We evaluated how much each of us were oriented towards the following roles: Clarifier, ideator, developer and implementer.
As a result of self-evaluation, we found out that while our team is strong on clarification, implementation and development, we are not as strong on ideating. The result indicates that our team consists more of realists than visionaries. This could however be further improved by first noticing the shortage of ideators in our team and then focusing on trying to think outside the box, looking for more creative ways of thinking and venturing beyond our comfort zone during the ideating process.
Next we constructed a trend analysis around our subject to map out the possible fields of applications for the finished product. We chose to use the wave model of the trend chart, as this seemed to be a clearer way of presentation. Some of the current trends we thought of included medicine and drug industry, fitness and supplement industry, 3D printing and nanomaterials. All of these could benefit from an accurate simulation of structures composed of DNA meshes.
After the exercises and the official part of the workshop lecture we agreed on forming some preliminary ways of communication and to sort them out better in the next meeting when we would have all of the members present.
After the introductions we had some team-building exercises that helped us figure out the direction we are heading and find out about some of our strengths and weaknesses. In one of the exercises we reflected on our preferences of our own roles in a team using FourSight evaluation. We evaluated how much each of us were oriented towards the following roles: Clarifier, ideator, developer and implementer.
As a result of self-evaluation, we found out that while our team is strong on clarification, implementation and development, we are not as strong on ideating. The result indicates that our team consists more of realists than visionaries. This could however be further improved by first noticing the shortage of ideators in our team and then focusing on trying to think outside the box, looking for more creative ways of thinking and venturing beyond our comfort zone during the ideating process.
Next we constructed a trend analysis around our subject to map out the possible fields of applications for the finished product. We chose to use the wave model of the trend chart, as this seemed to be a clearer way of presentation. Some of the current trends we thought of included medicine and drug industry, fitness and supplement industry, 3D printing and nanomaterials. All of these could benefit from an accurate simulation of structures composed of DNA meshes.
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| "Wave-model" trend analysis from the workshop session. |
After the exercises and the official part of the workshop lecture we agreed on forming some preliminary ways of communication and to sort them out better in the next meeting when we would have all of the members present.
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