Part 1. How do you feel about your implementation and evaluation plans? Did they work well for you? How was the teamwork and how would you assess your own performance?
I felt that the Implementation and Evaluation Plans were forced. It was an excellent process to walk through, and the plans were very well designed with leading questions and a simplified checkoff list; however, not all of the questions were needed for my project. Therefore, I felt like I was stretching to put a “square peg in a round hole” and create a comment just to complete the assignment. Going forward I feel like I could still utilize this planning tool as I continue to develop projects, but would only use the components that were relevant to my work.
For the Task assignments I did not work in a team. Initially I had partnered with another student to team up for the Task assignments; hwoever, we were told that we were not supposed to work in teams for the Tasks and therefore we went our seperate ways and each completed our own Task projects. Looking back, I don’t know if my project would have been applicable to a group setting because it was so specific to what I was doing at work.
Overall, while the workload was intense at times, the end product was beautiful. On my own, I would not have completed this much work for the project without this guidence. In the end, I have so much research, support, justification, and a technology foundation that I feel this project will soon become a reality. Additionally, I was able to take components from the Tasks assignment and write a solid proposal for a Summer conference in Scotland. I feel pretty good about what was submitted.
Part 2. What kind of research agenda would you develop tied to the system analysis, implementation, and or evaluation. Will you try to do this kind of research in the future? Why or why not?
To somewhat reiderate the above comments, yes, I believe I will use these tools again in the future. I would have preferred to have been introduced to the evaluation and implementation frameworks a litte earlier in the design process, as in the evaluation phase I had to go back and make adjustments to the initial plan proposal so that it would align with the implementation plan. Yet, it was nice to have the tie-in and to see how the elements line-up. I feel like this type of reasearch is very project-based, and because much of my job is project management I found it to be useful.
