Last spring, after the Integration SWAT Team guy showed me Archi and walked me through how to develop a process using Archimate, he sent me off with a copy of the enterprise architecture as it currently exists (not including specific server IPs or other sensitive information that I don’t need anyway). a link to Archimate, […]
Sample Solutions Survey….or How Training Fits In
I’ve had a number of people ask me recently about what questions we are asking in our Pilot surveys. The largest survey we did was for our Unified Communications rollout. I have started to use some of these questions during other implementations to get a feel for how the training programs impact the adoption of […]
Translating Capabilities to Strategy – Survey Example
As you may have discovered, we have multiple tools that do similar things. We have multiple tools that provide survey capabilities. So now we can sit and figure out what tool is best for a particular scenario – and come up with a clear set of guidelines for the team. This will allow us to […]
Translating Requirements to Capabilities
Doing the translation between requirements and capability is actually fairly simple: 1) Copy the actor/verb/object columns to a new sheet within your spreadsheet 2) List the tools you have available across the top 3) Ask – does it have the feature? Yes / No. This also allows me to comment if the answer isn’t so […]
Translating Capabilities into Strategy – Content Strategy
Of course, life does not always provide time to come up with a strategy after careful consideration of requirements and capability. Sometimes, you just have to rely on prior history and gut feeling – as well as take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves. Behold! Our current content strategy! I can use this […]
Requirements from Scratch Step 4 – What is Testable?
Wendy – why are you worried about this? One of the biggest issues we ran into during our Unified Communications project was the development of test scripts. As you are implementing your learning ecosystem, chances are you will be asked to create test scripts. Or at least participate in that process. Spending time defining testable […]
Requirements from Scratch Step 3 – Nice to Have vs Need to Have
The next step is taking that list and prioritizing it into nice to have and need to have. For the Survey tool…what are the principles that guide that decision? Mine are: Can people get to the survey easily and using their preferred method of access? If it is a pain for them to get to […]
Requirements from Scratch Step 2 – Organizing Requirements
Once we have the rough requirements, my next step is to organize the requirements in a way that makes more sense. When I was looking for a template for requirements elicitation, my current director recommended that I look at them in terms of Actor / Action / Acted Upon. Sounded to me a lot like […]
Unified Communications Pilot Training – Findings
I wanted to share a case study with you from a project I did a few years ago. The process of reflecting on whether my activities have worked for the organization has been key to helping me improve my work. ————————- Tools we used to implement: – A ListServ – A WordPress blog (SharePoint wasn’t […]
Requirements from Scratch Step 1 – Write It All Down
I tackled the survey requirements first by brainstorming what I think I want. I then did a Google Search – Survey Tools Review Found a couple of baseline requirements lists and added stuff that we needed to consider that I missed. Survey Software Top Ten Reviews for a short version Relevant Insights for a very […]
