The Interaction Room methodology offered by adesso Turkey provides a basis for efficient decision-making processes in digital transformation and complex projects. For detailed information: info@adesso.com.tr

1. A proven way of digitalization
Interaction Room

2. Creating Space for Developments
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The Interaction Room
The existing software process models, both plan-oriented as well as agile models – indeed
lay down an organizational framework for the project’s course, but they do not help
interdisciplinary teams to get to grips with the content matter of the system being developed.
Companies and project managers, IT and specialist departments have to throw traditional
ideas of projects, communication and meeting culture overboard if they want to be able to
continue to develop successful software in an increasingly challenging environment.
This is exactly why adesso AG and paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at
the University of Duisburg-Essen – have developed the “Interaction Room”.

3. Motivation
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Reasons for project failures
Missing coordination and insufficient
communication
Unclear and frequently changing
requirements
Too complex and too big scopes
Not focused on generating value
45%
19%
16%
13%
7%
use of features
never rarely sometimes often always
Sources: Boehm: Software Risk Management. Principles and Practices; Standish Group: The CHAOS Report; Jim Johnson: KeynoteXP conference

4. The Interaction Room is not a virtual,
but a real, walk-in space.
It offers everyone involved in a project an
organized communication platform.
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5. The use of the Interaction Room serves several purposes:
Focus on the critical aspects
Early identification and elimination of risks through intuitive visualization
methods
Improving cooperation and establishing joint project responsibility of
functional department and IT
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6. Interaction Room Types
Pragmatic project planning and implementation
Prioritize and
scope reqs.
Concretizing
requirements
Identify affected
processes and
stakeholders
Define
project goals and
size
IR:digital IR:scope
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7. What is important?
Focus on the communication between all stakeholders and on the important success
critical aspects
Early detection and removal of uncertainties and risks through intuitive visualization
Support of the flexibility of agile software
processes
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8. Interaction Room
Model sketches on whiteboards relate critical aspects of system to each other at a
glance
Continuous Requirements Engineering
Interdisciplinary teams
Personal communication
Pragmatic modeling
Intuitive visualization
Consistent value orientation
Explicit uncertainty analysis
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9. Pragmatic modeling approach
Informal sketches
No syntactic correctness, consistency, completeness
In favor of rationality, focusing, interdisciplinary
comprehensibility, problem adequacy
No substitute for detailed specification (where required)
But catalyst for recognition, discussion and understanding of critical
project aspects:
Orientation about goals, dependencies, progress
Classification of detailed specifications in the overall context
Early highlighting of complexity and risk drivers
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10. Content of the Interaction Room – Example for IR:scope
Identify and list the high level requirements
Determine and sketch the various maps /
views e.g.
Process Map
Object Map
Integration Map
Interaction Map
[Migration Map]
Annotate the maps & Backlog
Plan of the iterations
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11. Interaction Room method
Flexible application scenarios
Only method modules, not fixed process
Resorting / omission of canvas and annotations by workshop target and phase
Methodical guided tour by two IR coaches
Methodical expert moderates and supervise
Subject expert asks critical technical questions, takes care of appropriate level of
abstraction and is responsible for log findings
Important: proper stakeholder selection
Free and open communication
Interdisciplinary teams
8-12 stakeholders per Workshop
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Establishing
common
understanding
analogue
informal
abstract
Identifying
success critical
aspects
individual
transparent
structured
Preparing a
workshop
standardized
target-oriented
extendable
Compacting the
results
coordinated
prioritized
assessable
Approach

13. Thank You!
Do you have questions?
Drop us a line at info@adesso.com.tr
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