SharePoint Evolutions Roadshow - Gamestorming your way to awesome requirements
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One of the sessions I presented at the SharePoint Evolutions Roadshow 2014 - Gamestorming your way to awesome requirements
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SharePoint Evolutions Roadshow - Gamestorming your way to awesome requirements
- 1. Gamestorming your way to Awesome Requirements Ant Clay
- 3. WHY TRADITIONAL REQUIREMENTS TECHNIQUES ARE BROKEN KEY ELEMENTS TO ENSURE YOUR PROJECT DELIVERS THE RIGHT THINGS INSIGHTS INTO THE TECHNIQUES YOU CAN USE TOMORROW TO FACILITATE AWESOME BUSINESS OUTCOMES WELCOME
- 11. we get lost
- 12. we get wrapped up in tech
- 16. tech features not outcomes
- 17. It’s Not Technology Problem I don’t see a tech problem
- 18. we’re not focussing right
- 19. Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf THE CHAOS REPORT: PROJECT FAILURE FACTORS
- 20. 1. LACK OF USER INPUT
- 22. 3. CHANGING REQUIREMENTS & ASSUMPTIONS
- 23. 4. LACK OF EXECUTIVE SUPPORT
- 25. 6. LACK OF RESOURCES
- 36. WHERE ARE YOUR REQUIREMENTS?
- 38. Analysis?
- 39. Spreadsheet / Survey? Lame questions to ask to improve a platform Do you like using it? Yes No How often do you use it? Daily Weekly Monthly Does it do what you want it to do? Yes No If no then why? What other features should it offer? Free text type here What don’t you like about it? Free text type here How can we improve it? Free text type here
- 40. Facilitation?
- 41. Play?
- 42. Emergent
- 55. Beware
- 56. Work out loud
- 59. create an evolving story
- 60. “I will not deliver SharePoint celery !”
- 62. Thanks for your time and attention…
- 66. Thank you for attending!
Editor's Notes
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Source: Chaos Report (1995) http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf
- Is this how we appear to our customers and stakeholders when we ask them for requirements?? Assumptions or Excel based one-way “workshops”
- Is this how we appear to our customers and stakeholders when we ask them for requirements?? Assumptions or Excel based one-way “workshops”
- Play allows us to gain a Shared Understanding and a Shared Commitment - Gain more insights, people learn faster, you remember more and have considerably more enjoyment from “play”
- What makes us feel young again? Play and fun Lets incorporate more play into business emergent
- Value is emergent Behaviours are emergent Requirements are emergent
- Why Do They Work? Structured Rules, but often no winners Purposeful Definite outcome Time-bound By definition, a time boxed exercise Participatory Success depends on everyone participating Egalitarian Everyone has an equal opportunity to participate
- Write these on the WHITEBOARD Four steps to achieving AWESOME business requirements: Context (Where are we? And where are we going?) Requirements Facilitation (How do we get there?) Prioritisation (How do we get their effectively) Working Out Loud (How can we make sure this is right)
- Whatever steps we take they need to allow us to do ‘goal alignment’ every step of the way….
- ** Demonstrate / Sketch and use post-it notes Context – Spider Web Innovation Games®
- ** Demonstrate / Sketch and use post-it notes Context – SailBoat Innovation Games®
- ** Demonstrate / Sketch and use post-it notes Context – Cover Story Gamestorming
- ** Demonstrate / Sketch and use post-it notes Context – Project Business Model Canvas Business Model Generation – Alexander Ostwerwalder & Yves Pigneur
- Stand up and shout “I will not deliver Technology celery!”
- This is what we want!
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