Last class we had to do an activity which required us to learn on how to gather information since next week on 2nd of october we are going to have our first industrial day where we will get to know all of the clients that we will be working with this semester. Hence, It is very important for us to know and understand what is the right way to gather information.
In this activity Mdm Hawaniah, our SAD lecturer divided us in to two groups that is the interview group which consist of BIOS,QUANTUM,PENTIUM and DATAFUSION and the other group is the questionnaire group that consist of ROSETTA,ANALOGUE and MICRON. We were given approximately given 15 minutes to figure out all of the question and after that we will do the interview session for the interview group and we will show the questionnaire for the questionnaire group. For the interview group the lecturer randomly choose two sub group where one group will act as the interviewer and the other will act as the interviewee. The interviewer group was BIOS group whereas the interviewee group was the DATAFUSION group. After the two group had conducted the session, the lecturer had given a several feedback about the presentation. The lecturer where quite happy about the choices of the question because all of the question were relevant to be ask and the lecturer were quite happy about the last part where the interviewer recap back all the requirements that the client needed for the new system. However, the lecturer did remind us a few things such as to keep eye contact when we were talking with the client, there will only be one person that will jot down everything, ask permission from the client if we want to record the whole interview process and many more.
For the questionnaire group, only one group was selected to present their questionnaire. The lecturer remind us that it is better for us to divide the questionnaire into a couple of question accordingly because not all of the question were related to their area of field.
From the activity that had been done, I have learnt many things about gathering information. And i hope that i will use all of my knowledge in gathering information during the first industrial day next week.