SECP1513-TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SYSTEM

Design Thinking is a process we try to find out and understand the problems and challenges that are faced by the user in an attempt to identify alternative solutions and strategies that might be beyond our level or standard.

Design Thinking Process

Grocery stores are a place where we always visited to buy our daily supplies. This experience gives us a basic understanding on how grocery stores operate and manage their data. This includes employees, customers, suppliers, inventory, orders, etc. They usually used a proper Data Management System (DBMS) software  such as MySQL, Oracle, SQLserver, RDBMS, etc. However, these software. Moreover, with the existence of big data nowadays, grocery stores are able to collect data with every transaction made by the customers. This not only benefits the grocery store to easily collect and access data, it also can help the customers to receive promotions or vouchers by tracking customers’ shopping habits.

Login Phase of our Prototype

Reflection:

I would like to start my reflection report by saying that I am extremely grateful for being given this opportunity to take part in this assignment because it was completely different from all of my other assignments. Not only that, it provided a new, exciting and practical approach to learning which really helped me a lot. I major in data engineering, which is responsible for design, construct, install, test and maintain data management systems. My goal is to design a DBA system which can automatically take large volumes of complex data, extract insights and also help solve problems.

In this Design thinking assignment, I learned about the concept on how to handle the problems which will be really helpful in my future. Design thinking gives me the opportunity to view a problem from a different perspective. I learned that how we put ourselves in the view of the users to determine the problems they are facing thus we can remedy the problems by creating an effective solution. Furthermore, in this assignment we carried out the brainstorming process together and shared our ideas. Although we faced a lot of challenges and troubles during the assignment work as a team can always keep us to stick with it. And finally, with our hard work, we have a surprising outcome. From this, I realized the importance of team working from Design Thinking.

To improve the potential in the industry, I believe that having the right mindset is crucial. In addition to achieving my goals, I must keep myself motivated even if I experience hardness or setbacks. I will keep improving my skill sets nonstop to make myself more valuable. Data engineering is not an easy career, it's new but still keeps evolving year by year. So, I have to keep myself always updated and master the programming skills such as SQL, Python, C++, etc.

Reflection:

In this industrial talk, i found that the world is changing so fast. The world evolve from INDUSTRY 1.0 to INDUSTRY 4.0 in a short 200 years. This reminds me a word “singularity”.  Singularity is a point in time which technological progress becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, leading to unforeseeable changes in human society. We can see that every stage of the industry evolution is a new singularity. Now the nearest and newest singularity is the birth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which is in Industry 4.0. Once the AI technology is getting proficient and popularized to the whole world, the world will change in an unexpected way.

This industrial talk provided us with a lot of helpful IT Project Management details. The speaker was Mohd Khairul Reeza Ruslan, who is the Head of Project Management Office Commerce Dot Com Sdn Bhd.

Reflection :

From the talk, I realized the importance of IT Project Management. A well-planned project will always have clear focus and objectives. It guarantees what is being delivered in the project is accurate and provides real value. Not only that, project management can also ensure that risks are handled and mitigated correctly to avoid becoming problems. So, I must take my future as a “project” to have proper planning on it. I have to prepare and organize everything systematically in my life to archive my dreams and goals.

The objective of this talk is to illustrate the chances and challenges of finding a job in this pandemic since the Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the economy of our country.

Reflection:

In this sharing session, I gained a lot of knowledge and information about the speakers' working experiences that are very insightful and help, particularly for me as a future graduate. From the talk, I realized that CGPA is not a thing that decides the future success career of a student. Before assessing success, there are a lot of factors involved that must be counted.  This talk made me understand the importance of acquiring skills to secure a job. This really encourages me to take part in more programs during my undergraduate study life for me to improve my soft skills. Besides, those programs will also expand my social circle in my life. For me, I think that this talk is very informative and I really enjoyed the session.