Update No. 3

right, today I met with my supervisor. It was very useful, though im a little angry because most of what was discussed is slowly creeping out of my head 8 hours later as I write this update.

Two things im going to need to start doing are:

• making updates immediately after each meeting I have with my supervisor


• and, im also going to need to start jotting down all the ideas that come into my head as and when they happen – this may mean updating this blog more or perhaps keeping some kind of notebook/journal with me at all times

anyway, back to the update. Like I said this meeting with my supervisor today - really useful…

one of the suggestions was that whenever something comes into my head is to note it down, and document it. Perhaps if its something I need to design, start the design process and knock together a few sketches or whatever.
Practitioners tend not to do this whereas students do (or should do this), as it starts to help form some of the foundations in the framework of the project and eventually – and hopefully - the person reading the report will be able to see where an idea came from and the thought processes behind it will be documented.

This is something im going to need to start doing!

So I turned up to today’s meeting slightly worried and concerned that I still did not have a project idea/proposal. As I’ve been talking about for a while now; I am interested in carrying out some sort of project that looks at SSM in a business setting.

I forgot to mention – which I perhaps should have – that a while back I did a search on Google Blog for SSM and came across a job advertisement in the first few hits; looking for a SSM practitioner with at least 3 years experience to work with a company quite local to me for 3 months

As you can imagine, this got me thinking a little.

“Wouldn’t it be pretty cool if I could perhaps get some real experience and exposure; contact this company (or another company for that matter) and try and get involved.”

Naturally, it then clicked, that it would also be pretty neat if I could perhaps base my project on something like this

After chatting with my supervisor about this – we both agreed that this might be the right move and could make an interesting project.

this has led me to my rather vague working title. which for the time being is:

An enquiry into Soft Systems Methodology in Practice – in a real world business setting

im going to stop here this evening and give another update tomorrow explaining a little further what was discussed in the short meeting with my supevisor today (e.g. my Plan A & B) as it's going to get pretty lengthy if keep typing whilst im this tired

more to come tomorrow...