Lab Learning: Day 21

We are now on overshoot. We didnt finish in time, so our lab is extended. As the rest of the lab is testing our model, I realised that things could be far different if we had gotten the lab story wall done from day one. We didn't understand what was required, so it kept on having to be changed. Had we started with the story wall right, then our presentation would be easy to prepare as the story line would already be identified. Right now as I write, I struggle with what we have to present. How could the story wall help? When we finally understood it, our wall was organized into 4: what the lab is about, what the lab did, what the lab found, and what the lab recommends. The lab charter could be broken up into simple slides that explained it for everyone to see. That would form the introduction of our lab Our syndications summary would go into what the lab did. Had we been able to debrief at the end of each day, our support staff could prepare the slides and put up on the wall daily. By today, we would have the summary of syndications already done. Our findings could be captured during the daily debriefs. We could immediately turn it into slides and then put it up the next day. As our finding become more refined, we would then update the slides. By today, then, the latest findings would be on the wall. The same goes with the recommendations. Because we weren't able to do this, we're now struggling, as we have several versions of our recommendations on several pcs. And we haven't yet gotten a credible story line. If I could start over, I'd have the lab ensure that debriefs are done at the end of the day, and I'd also insist that a lab member captures the findings and recommendations and scribbles the slide. Then this can be passed to the support crew to turn into slides and printed to be put up on the story wall.