This is my 6th week at Osaka Photonics Center and at what I think is the difficult part of the Internship. I have a lot of projects lined up and I need them all to be complete by the time I leave. This high amount of work and stress I think is helping me to work faster and gain a lot of experience in a short amount of time. I have tackled these projects by arranging my tasks into sprints. A sprint is a list of tasks that I plan on completing in one or two days. Once I finish with the sprint, I have a meeting with my supervisor to discuss so if the objectives of the sprint were completed to satisfaction. If changes needed to be made I made changes but if everything was acceptable I would move on to the next sprint. With this method I was able to complete a lot of the functionality of both Core 2 Core and Osaka Photonics Initiative in this past week. Moving into the final two weeks of my internship, I really need to focus on getting content from my co-workers. I also need to set some time aside to create the registration form for the Core 2 Core conference. I’ve really enjoyed my time at the Osaka Photonics Center. It has been really exciting to see my work come to life and enable communities. I am really surprised with the quality of work I was able to make. When I come back to the United States, I want to revisit some of my older web projects and improve them.
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Glad to read about your organization system. Sprints or milestones are a common practice in programming teams. It can be a useful way to gather tasks so that they don’t feel so disconnected from each other. It also helps focus the team on the desired outcome. Sounds like they are helping you do just that!