Write a reflection paper. Apply the four ethical lenses inventory and overview to write a personal reflection paper (less than 1000 words) that analyzes and reflects on how your personal ethical inventory aligns to your MDPM team. Apply your understanding of your personal strengths to create two ethical design principles that will help your team design and develop digital products in the MDPM program.
Recommended Structure
The reflection should be structured into three main sections.
Section 1: Refer to the Four Ethical Lenses Overview to analyze and reflect on your personal ethics inventory. • Analysis: What is your vantage point? Prioritize a list of your core values. What is your process for determining what is ethical (include analytical tools)? What are the risks and blindspots of your ethical inventory? • Reflect on how the personal assessment affected you, changed your mind on ethics, raised questions, overlooked critical issues, related to past experiences.
Section 2: Analyze and reflect on your team ethical inventory. • Analysis: How does your ethical inventory align to your team? How does your vantage point, priorities, and process compare? • Reflect on how your ethical inventory will help your team design and develop digital products. What will be your strengths? How might your ethical inventory hinder your team in the design and development of digital products? How will you prevent team distractions.
Section 3: Write two ethical design principles that reflect the strengths of your personal ethical inventory. For a detailed explanation for how to create design principles, refer to the MDPM 900 Milestone #1 video overview.
Recommended Format
The position paper cannot exceed 1000 words. Double space the entire text, indent the 1st word in every paragraph, make it a single-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides, use Time New Roman 12-points size font. Save the final paper as a PDF and upload to the portal by the deadline.
1. Introduction. State why you are analyzing your personal ethics inventory, share an experience that demonstrates why this is important, briefly summarize the analysis, write a thesis statement stating how the subject has affected you.
2. Body Paragraphs. Examine your analysis in ways that give your reader specific points of reference to relevant components of the ethical lenses. Be sure your body paragraphs reflect on both your personal ethical inventory as well as how your personal ethical inventory aligns to your team.
3. Conclusion. Summarize what you learned and share the two ethical design principles you created from your newfound knowledge. Finally, describe the feeling and overall lesson you gained from this reflection as it relates to resolving paradoxical tensions in digital product management.