
Building Cash Products Through Human Centered Design
The complexity of disaster response projects makes it hard for developers to understand how to develop effective digital tools that meet the needs of the users. Human Centered Design is a design and management framework that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process. It aims to…

121 SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
WHAT IS SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE? Software architecture comprises the fundamental structures of a software system and the creation of these structures. Similar to building architecture, it sets the blueprint for the design, in this case of the software, establishing the tasks the team must execute at each stage. Good architecture ensures the team is building a…

SCRUM FOR 121: GETTING THE KEY ROLES RIGHT
HOW DO WE WORK? On 1 November 2019 a certified and experienced scrum master, Diderik van Wingerden, joined the 121 team. A few weeks later on November 23rd 2019, the technical project manager of the 121 team, Lars Stevens, passed his Professional Product Owner 1 exam. The result? Clear "Process" for a newly formed scrum-team …

121 PREDICTING MARKETS IN TIMES OF DISASTER: THESIS AUKE TAS
Here linked is MASTER’S THESIS: “Predicting the state of local markets after natural disasters to inform humanitarian cash programs” WHAT IS THE THESIS ABOUT? Cash based aid allows people affected to decide themselves on how to spend their cash based aid to meet their own needs. A precondition? there must be an accessible and well-supplied local market. This master’s thesis investigates the market functioning…