Course Review

These videos were interesting and overall very helpful to understanding the ins and outs of iPullRank’s processes, and I particularly appreciated the attention to communication, accountability, and the PROUD philosophy throughout. However, I did have some specific difficulties with them.

Video is one of the more difficult formats for me to follow, especially when there are no closed captions. To help myself follow along, I prefer to take notes in a separate window. However, the platform for these videos is designed to automatically pause videos whenever a viewer switches to another tab. I understand that the intent of this is to ensure people actually watch them instead of letting them roll in the background, but for me, it simply prevented effective note-taking. An easy way to improve this would be to allow these videos to play in the background. The addition of captions would go a long way as well, but I understand that would be a lot more labor-intensive.

I also noticed that several of the processes described in these videos are obsolete. In particular, the section on time and workflow tracking goes into great detail about Teamwork, which we are in the process of switching away from.