This basic course gave me a better understanding on how complex systems like weather prediction are made and used. I learned how to make a model starting from scratch and what choices have to be made to make a good model.
For me as a designer I can relate this model to products and know when it is applicable. Now I can make a model about for example the optimisation of the costs of a product with relations to its quality. A model can help you to make choices in what a good ratio is between two relations and that are instead of based on a guess, are based on theory.
For now I don’t really know how to develop DMM competency further. But I think that compared to other competencies, this competency is developed enough for a while, because we spent the last 3 quartiles 1/3 of our time on it every week. I could imagine that I can develop it further with data analysis on a prototype.