I stumbled into tech on accident. After taking the MCAT to fulfill my lifelong dream of going to medical school, I suddenly realized that becoming a physician was the only real career path I had ever really considered, coming from a healthcare-based family. Right on the precipice of this incredible journey I had been preparing for my entire life, I suddenly realized that I didn't want to actually be a physician. I loved the science, that you worked with your hands and people, but I had never considered other career paths that would fulfill those needs. After that realization, I did the only thing I could think of and enrolled in all Art courses the following semester. A complete 180, that should have felt more jarring than it did, but I love challenges, so it felt really great. Though the focus of my life shifted drastically, I realized what I was looking for was a new challenge. Going to medical school would obviously be difficult, but it didn't feel foreign or like I was tackling so
Ayla Dharamsey ayladharamsey
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I think that I learned alot about using the Agile framework. For the Agile framework, I think that the emphasis on tackling smaller tasks and ensuring that those tasks are production ready by testing often and early has helped me write cleaner code. It's difficult to review work generally because the task can seem somewhat daunting. This way, testing is an integral part of the process, but it seems a lot more manageable.
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We utilized Trello during this project. We held each other accountable by utilizing the feature that allows you to claim a task or assign a task to a specific person. We checked in each morning and evening to determine our progress and where we stood against our original benchmarks, and worked mostly in person, together.
Trello--Ayla is PMing this project out. Allison is going to go over Trello and learn how to utilize it for this type of project.
Going to try to come in early as much as possible, a few times a few week stay late. Work on the weekends for a few hours.
The assignments listed here should take you between 1.5 and 2 total hours.
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The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 50 minutes total.
To start this assignment:
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What is your greatest strength and how do you know?
My ability to organize and follow my gut. I am a pretty intuitive person,
I've always marched to the beat of my own drum and taken unconventional routes to acquire success or goals.
By staying organzied, and evaluating what advice I choose to take, I am able to maintain focus on my own goals
and feel like I am in control and making progress. I feel like if you rely on other people to find out the best
route or path to a goal, it doesn't feel like you actually achieved anything but rather piggy backed on someone else's success.
How do you work best?
I work best in a team. I do things well on my own, but I like that competitive drive I get working with people.
I think it is always interesting to work with people and see how they approach problems. I think it's important to get outside
The assignments listed here should take you approximately 25 total minutes.
To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.
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What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
Most people that know me consider me an empath, and I think empathy was a large reason why I originally went into the design field. I felt like my inherint ability to keep the user or the consumer in mind made me a natural for design-based work.
How does empathy help you build better software?
I think empathy really can be a source of inspiration for creating more exciting, cutting edge software. A lot of the time software has a high learning curve, or can be difficult for the people who really could benefit from it's power to access it readily. I think by tapping more into empathy, we will be able to create more intelligent software that can help marginalized, high need groups.
Why is empathy important for working on a team?
I think it's important for a team to continually work and draw attention to empathy, because it is easily looked over. There is no initial gain from empathy, often times you have to gi