At Fukuoka University, the project management tool "Backlog" and the business chat tool "Typetalk" provided by Nulab Inc. are used for the master's and graduation thesis projects of students in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering.By managing research tasks for 10 students with "Backlog", progress management on the faculty side is streamlined, and in cooperation with "Typetalk", a huge amount of emails have been successfully reduced.It is producing results.
The Media Engineering Laboratory, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Fukuoka University, is developing various systems and algorithms in collaboration with laboratories of other faculties under the theme of developing information systems for voice and images.
This time, in the management of student master's thesis and graduation thesis projects, the Media Engineering Laboratory said, "The amount of progress report emails sent by students is enormous" and "The progress of 10 students' projects cannot be grasped in real time. In order to solve problems such as "I can't correct the trajectory", I introduced "Backlog" for problem management and "Typetalk" for real-time communication such as communication and discussion (confirmation).
After the introduction, it was possible to reduce the huge amount of notification emails, and even at the meeting to confirm the progress of the master's thesis, problems such as omissions and mistakes due to manual input were solved.In addition, in the process of getting students accustomed to the tools, I was able to teach "business etiquette" such as reporting, contacting, and consultation, and I was able to teach students at an early stage task management and business communication that are useful in the business field. Associate Professor Shinya Takahashi and Assistant Professor Hiroshige Hodo of the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, evaluated the effect of the introduction.
"Backlog" is one of the largest project management tools in Japan used by more than 100 million people.By visualizing the project plan on the Gantt chart and grasping the progress of the members, there are features such as being able to quickly notice delays in work."Typetalk" is an online chat-style team discussion tool.Visualize the work of the team and see at a glance who, when, and what they said, so important conversations are not buried.
