Digital Immersion Heaters

I’ve spent my past week beginning a digital immersion course: a month of training with the other Newcastle graduates designed to flesh out all of DXC’s favourite buzzwords. It began with understanding how a scrum team operates, and the in-person training delivered by certified scrum master Will McLean was really helpful in getting a solid understanding of the process and its benefits. We all agreed that we came away from the first few days with a much better understanding of scrums than the online tutorials had given us. Next up was learning about Kanban and its use in projects to influence productivity. This included an interactive “board game” that exemplified how hard it was to keep track of so many simultaneously moving factors, but ultimately lead to a better understanding of what we could control to boost profits on a second run through of the game.

We are now working as a small 4-man dev team in a scrum simulation with the goal of producing an onboarding app for new DXC graduates like ourselves. Whilst coming up with clear plans of action quite well, sprint progress has been slow at times due to our unfamiliarity with the software used (first Visual Studio before switching to Android Studio). However, it’s rewarding when the YouTube tutorials and fixing of code pays off to create a small result. We’ll see how the app is coming along in a week!