Most of my time this week was spent practicing for the design review presentation. I have to practice a lot in order to not feel nervous for presentations. I’m always very envious of people who can just get up and give impromptu speeches and presentations because I could never do that.
Time breakdown:
Approximately 1.5 hours was spent trying to figure out how to cut our design presentation down to 15 minutes. My early practices were around 20-25 minutes per presentation. I practiced my presentation 8+ more times to be certain that I would be able to give a smooth delivery during the actual presentation. I estimate this to take at least 2.25 hours since each presentation is 15 minutes and accounting for time to take notes between each presentation.
4 hours was spent in class. This week in class I watched and gave comments on other team’s design reviews. I’m pretty confident I gave good comments on Monday. On Wednesday, I was very nervous since I was presenting last and had a hard time concentrating on the presentations because of it and this may have impacted the quality of my comments to the Wednesday teams.
1 hour was spent in a team meeting to discuss plans to complete the design review.
The remaining time this week was spent working on writing the design review.
I am on schedule.
