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Annesha Sharp

  • Student ID: S3961179
  • Student Email: s3961179@student.rmit.edu.au
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    “My name is Annesha Sharp, student number S3691179 and I am a member of the team ‘Awesome Breakfast Club’. I am a 23-year-old Software Tester, with one and a half years of experience in the IT industry. In my spare time, I like to embrace creative hobbies such as knitting and sewing and make a great effort to maintain my health with strength training workouts and walking my dog. I discovered my Interest in IT after partially completing an arts degree and feeling unsure of my future career, in my study sabbatical I began working as a database officer and have enjoyed working in IT ever since. I found from experience that I flourish working in IT, and that I really enjoy assisting others to understand Technology.”

    Ideal job and career plan - Technical business analyst

    Technical Business Analyst’s overall role involves aligning technology systems with business operations by analysing and developing innovative integrated software solutions. Their duties include providing internal IT support and managing web-based software solutions as well as regularly reporting to management (Technical Business Analyst Job Description, 2022). Currently working as a Software Tester, I am building my experience within the IT industry in a role which works closely with Technical Business Analyst. The role of Software Tester requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, which I have demonstrated daily. Working in a SCRUM methodology, I also utilise my interpersonal skills to maintain communication with stakeholders and team members, and often work as a back-up SRUM master within the team. In the early years of my career, I have already gained experience in facilitating ICT workshops for User Acceptance Testing, End User Training, and SCRUM Retrospectives. Currently I have many of the foundational skills required for this role and will continue to grow these throughout my study and work opportunities. In my studies I plan to grow my technical knowledge with a particular focus on cloud computing. After graduating from RMIT with a Bachelor of Information Technology, I plan to complete my CBAP through the International Institute of Business Analysts. Through my current work, I also plan to undertake professional development secondments which can assist to grow my experience as a business analyst.

    Assignment 3 feedback

    Upon reflecting on our performance as a group in assignment 3, I believe we made many improvements and became a more cohesive and proactive group. Our communication improved immediately by having open discussions about feedback and expectations. We also opened lines of communication over teams and discord to cater for all group member’s preferences and notified the team when we were available for a group study session. These changes increased collaboration and further supported the group members that prefer working with others, resulting in a more even spread of the workload.

    One factor we could have improved upon would be setting clear expectations of what to do when team members need assistance, as some members found asking for help a topic that was difficult to approach. Additionally, it would be beneficial to divide up the tasks at the start of the project and set clear deadlines for each task to assist with individual motivation and evenly sharing the workload.

    I was surprised by the positive impacts of openly discussing our feedback and expectations. I expected it to likely result in conflict and tension, however everyone approached the matter with an open-mind and made an effort to improve, which brought our team closer together.

    In this process I learnt the value of sharing our skills within the group, so we can all learn from each other and gain experience. Whilst it may take extra time, we found it resulted in more uptake and usage of the Teams channel and the GitHub repository.