Aaaaaand, I’m done.
Ok, not really. Our team still wants to present our work to Joe’s, and of course we also need to present to our classmates. But the documentation of processes, and detailed recommendations for staffing and infrastructure has all been made official. The final reflections I included in the paper probably sum up things best, so I have included them below:
I was really pleased to have been assigned this project. A lot of my background experience in the areas of multimedia and photography became useful at several points. But more than anything I was appreciative of the enthusiasm Joe’s staff exhibited for the work we were doing. Sierra was the most immediate example of this, but several other Joe’s staff seemed receptive and helpful as well. That fact makes me optimistic that many of the points and suggestions we make in this paper will eventually be implemented in some form.
If I had to point to a specific disappointment I would probably say that it would have been nice to have had enough time to help them push all the way to the digital museum implementation stage. That is something I haven’t done before and would have been a good learning experience for me.
With regards to the team aspect of the project I would say that this is one of the first times in the program that I’ve felt like a team was really needed for a project. Not necessarily for the division of tasks, but for the multiple points of view on some pretty complex problems. I greatly appreciated my teammates’ ideas, and I think Joe’s has a stronger set of solutions because of the multiple viewpoints.