As we didn't have any specific topic for this week I decided to use this blog as a note for the upcoming final briefing we will present in August.
This week we have presented our draft briefing on Master Thesis Topic. As you may know the topic of my and my teammate Mustafa's thesis is related to the petroleum industry. The project we chose is something that we proposed compared to other teams that already joined the proposed by competitions, industry projects. Therefore, it requires a bit more time for us to make research on, search for data, etc. In our presentation, we have introduced the primary goal of the project, similar software, and applications, our potential stakeholders, the risks, and an approximate timeline with milestones.
As a result of our presentation, we received valuable comments from professors on how to foster and improve our investigation process. First of all, was a misunderstanding of risks in the Heilmeier Catechism that we used for our presentation. We were supposed to mention all the possible risks but instead, we just mentioned the ones regarding the final result. For example, Professor mentioned that failing to find proper data should also be mentioned as a risk for this particular project. Additionally, all the groups had the same comment on being too detailed during their presentation which is not quite normal for an initial briefing.
All in all, teams presented well, and now that we all know some of the details that have to be changed as for the final briefing our team has to make a more specific and deep analysis especially in data gathering, and make some adjustments and improvements to be ready for final briefing in August.