The document discusses strategies for managing small website projects on a lean budget and timeline. It recommends tackling small projects sequentially, from the lightest to most complex. Each project phase - strategize, plan, create, implement, and evaluate - should use lean processes. Collaboration tools like Google Docs and project management software can help streamline communication and planning. Testing, metrics, and debriefs are important parts of evaluating success and improving future projects. The overall approach emphasizes efficient processes, tools, and communication to complete multiple small projects on constrained resources.
Designing the Next Generation of Search User Experience - Duane Degler and Li...UXPA International
Search applications aren’t "just like Google" anymore – even Google is no longer the simple application it once was. Design is coming to the forefront of effective search applications, to help make sense of mobile search, data search, semantic search, enterprise search, federated search, and embedded search within websites and applications. So what do we need to know about designing for search? We need to understand our users’ mental models for how they perceive seeking within an information environment. We need to understand how to provide powerful user control over results and yet keep it extremely simple. We need to know how to test for effective comprehension as well as task execution. And we need to know how to get the most out of the new available technologies and data. This course is a deep dive into the essentials for a new generation of search designs.
Six behaviors you can consider when hiring/adding people to an agile team, and the questions you might ask to detect whether those are the right people.
7 reasons why your plan will fail (and what to do about it)Hugh Culver
Learn the seven reasons why most business plans fail and what to avoid. Author, speaker, and professional facilitator, Hugh Culver shares powerful questions to ask yourself to avoid these mistakes. You will also get a proven one-page business plan template to use for your next plan (or to replace the one you just made).
My presentation to UT Engineering's KTE mentorship program on 4/22/2019. It's primarily a presentation of the ideas of "Designing Your Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, how I used those ideas in my own career transition, and how specifically it could apply in the context of UT Austin.
Disclaimer: I'm not associated with the book or its authors, and the views expressed may not reflect the views of the authors or UT Austin. All opinions are intended for educational purposes and do not replace professional judgement.
Do you dread going to work? Are interruptions from outside making progress difficult? Is improvement almost nil? Sprint Retrospectives are the tool to help with all of these issues, but what if they elicit frustrated groans and reluctance or, worse, resentment within your team? This presentations shows why we have those problems and points in the direction of The Cure
Do you dread going to work? Are interruptions from outside making progress difficult? Is improvement almost nil? Sprint Retrospectives are the tool to help with all of these issues, but what if they elicit frustrated groans and reluctance or, worse, resentment within your team?
Designing the Next Generation of Search User Experience - Duane Degler and Li...UXPA International
Search applications aren’t "just like Google" anymore – even Google is no longer the simple application it once was. Design is coming to the forefront of effective search applications, to help make sense of mobile search, data search, semantic search, enterprise search, federated search, and embedded search within websites and applications. So what do we need to know about designing for search? We need to understand our users’ mental models for how they perceive seeking within an information environment. We need to understand how to provide powerful user control over results and yet keep it extremely simple. We need to know how to test for effective comprehension as well as task execution. And we need to know how to get the most out of the new available technologies and data. This course is a deep dive into the essentials for a new generation of search designs.
Six behaviors you can consider when hiring/adding people to an agile team, and the questions you might ask to detect whether those are the right people.
7 reasons why your plan will fail (and what to do about it)Hugh Culver
Learn the seven reasons why most business plans fail and what to avoid. Author, speaker, and professional facilitator, Hugh Culver shares powerful questions to ask yourself to avoid these mistakes. You will also get a proven one-page business plan template to use for your next plan (or to replace the one you just made).
My presentation to UT Engineering's KTE mentorship program on 4/22/2019. It's primarily a presentation of the ideas of "Designing Your Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, how I used those ideas in my own career transition, and how specifically it could apply in the context of UT Austin.
Disclaimer: I'm not associated with the book or its authors, and the views expressed may not reflect the views of the authors or UT Austin. All opinions are intended for educational purposes and do not replace professional judgement.
Do you dread going to work? Are interruptions from outside making progress difficult? Is improvement almost nil? Sprint Retrospectives are the tool to help with all of these issues, but what if they elicit frustrated groans and reluctance or, worse, resentment within your team? This presentations shows why we have those problems and points in the direction of The Cure
Do you dread going to work? Are interruptions from outside making progress difficult? Is improvement almost nil? Sprint Retrospectives are the tool to help with all of these issues, but what if they elicit frustrated groans and reluctance or, worse, resentment within your team?
Do you have a seemingly never-ending “to do” list? A list of goals that you haven't been able to achieve? Are you always late to every meeting/event? We all have the same 24 hours in a day, so why does it seem like you're always playing catch-up?
Having a list of things you can't check off can be demotivating. Constantly running late and making others wait is more than an annoyance, it can cost you big time. Getting the most out of life, including things like reaching your goals, improving your life by accomplishing more, increasing the time spent with loved ones, and learning new skills - all boils down to how YOU manage YOUR time.
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In this Meetup we will be focusing on proven time management hacks that work. Areas we’ll cover at the meeting:
1. The use of simple effective apps you can install on your smartphone and laptop to start immediately managing your time better.
2. Learn about time management techniques that work for very busy people. We’ll highlight how and why these actually work so you can seamlessly implement them into your life.
3. We’ll share ideas that don’t work, and help problem solve your unique challenges.
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Each meet-up is an opportunity to meet and get feedback from other keen, like-minded people looking to streamline and maximize the productivity of their lives. Attend this meet-up to start managing your time better and get the most out of your life.
This presentation will approach the unique challenges that UX professionals face when crafting their career path and finding roles that are both appropriate fits for their existing skillsets and offer opportunities to grow. It will help the attendees understand UX career options and help them craft their work samples and personal interactions to maximize their chances for success, whatever that looks like to them. Participants will learn to use the core concepts they utilize for their project work to how they present themselves and their work.
I’ll cover:
The varying career paths within UX and definitions of success
Information on what employers are looking for in UX professionals
Ways to utilize existing UX skills to illustrate strengths and articulate value within a work environment or to potential employers
Tips to improve work samples to demonstrate expertise
Methods to present and brands oneself
UX Field Research Basics talk, shared at Drupaldelphia, May 2019
For more information on Collaborative Improv check out https://collaborativeimprov.com
Tools help us create beautiful, usable experiences for devices. However, they can also get in the way of creativity: designers and developers sometimes spend more time thinking about process, software, and tools than making. In this talk, I discussed reasons we get distracted by process and tools, why stepping away from process and tools can be helpful, as well as methods to focus more on getting things done.
Presented at FITC Toronto 2016
See details at www.fitc.ca
Overview
Tools help us create beautiful, usable experiences for devices. However, they can also get in the way of creativity; designers and developers sometimes spend more time thinking about process, software, and tools than making. In this talk, Catt will discuss reasons we get distracted by process and tools, why stepping away from process and tools can be helpful, as well as methods to focus more on getting things done.
Objective
To help people worry less and create more.
Target Audience
Designers and developers
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Reasons people get distracted by tools and processes.
Why pausing conversations about tools and processes can be helpful.
How to stop being distracted by the “how”.
Methods to focus more on getting things done.
When it’s okay to discuss processes and tools.
Agile Starts With You: Personal Agility and Subversive Scrum
"You see, to do that you must start with the people – instead of jumping right into the process. You won’t be able to create an agile process, much less a culture, until you’ve created agile people." – Peter Saddington
Agile and Scrum typically evoke thoughts about software development processes, ceremonies, and tools, but at the heart of any successful Agile team are people who embody the values and principles.
As with accountability, agility begins with you, because you are the only thing that is within your domain of control. This presentation reflects on the mindset, strategies, and techniques to be personally agile, and the behaviors you can demonstrate that will infect others, and create trusting, high-performing teams.
My presentation from EuroSTAR 2015:
Your testing is a joke. Or, rather, some parts of some of the testing done by some people reading this will be somewhat analogous to some subset of what some people would accept as jokes. Sometimes. Language can be tricky like that. And that’s one of the things that makes it such a productive tool for jokes, and such a flawed tool for specification.
Edward de Bono, in his Lateral Thinking books, makes a strong connection between humour and creativity. Creativity is a key to testing, but jokes? Well, the punchline for a joke could be a violation of some expectation, the exposure of some ambiguity, an observation that no one else has made, or just making a surprising connection. Jokes can make you think and then laugh. But they don’t always work. Does that sound familiar?
At Linguamatics we have a weekly caption competition. I wondered what my process for creating entries was and as I spent more time thinking about it, I started to notice parallels with the way that I think about how I test. For instance, I might take each of the key entities in the picture and “factor” them – generate a list of features, related concepts, synonyms and so on. In testing I might then look for overlapping factors for potentially interesting test ideas, in the quest for a caption I might try to use the same approach to find an ambiguity and hence a joke.
In this talk I’ll take a genuine joke-making process and de-construct it to make comparisons between aspects of joking and concepts from testing such as the difference between a fault and a failure, oracles, heuristics, factoring, modelling testing as the exploration of a space of possibilities, stopping strategies, bug advocacy and the possibility that a bug, today, in this context might not be one tomorrow or in another.
Yes, there will be some jokes in the session. And I’ll try explain why the groans you’ll hear are a good sign too.
OSS From the Outside In - A Personal Journey With Akka.NETpetabridge
(From .NET Unboxed Conference 2015)
A year ago, I'd never sent in an open-source PR in my life. Today, I collaborate on Akka.NET with awesome developers and end users in 20+ countries every week. How the heck did THAT happen?!
- How do you get involved in a project and build credibility?
- How do you grok all the new ideas you need?
- Once you're involved, how do you build community around the project so people
actually USE the damn thing?
This is a talk about how a complete outsider gets into open-source quickly, and what possibilities that opens up for you personally and in your career.
In this presentation I discuss the approach, and tools we can use to do research on our users when we don't have resources, budget, or buy in from stakeholders.
Spreading the Word: Influencing Opinion Leaders GloballyJoe Hall
Research conducted by BBC and the Future Foundation into opinion leaders, word of mouth and how it works globally. The research covered 9,000 Opinion Leaders across 9 countries and goes beyond previous Word of Mouth research by its global scope and identification of 3 types of Opinion Leader.
The study looks at how Opinion Leaders spread the word in response to brand activity, news and personal experience. It covers all types of Word of Mouth and all types of channel (online and offline) and by studying the make-up of Opinion Leaders in different countries it explores geographical differences in how Word of Mouth works.
How do you build a homepage that serves the competing needs of 64 campuses, millions of prospective and enrolled students and alumni, and more than 88,000 employees? Create two home pages. That's what SUNY and mStoner did for the nation's largest comprehensive public university system.
Do you have a seemingly never-ending “to do” list? A list of goals that you haven't been able to achieve? Are you always late to every meeting/event? We all have the same 24 hours in a day, so why does it seem like you're always playing catch-up?
Having a list of things you can't check off can be demotivating. Constantly running late and making others wait is more than an annoyance, it can cost you big time. Getting the most out of life, including things like reaching your goals, improving your life by accomplishing more, increasing the time spent with loved ones, and learning new skills - all boils down to how YOU manage YOUR time.
=====
In this Meetup we will be focusing on proven time management hacks that work. Areas we’ll cover at the meeting:
1. The use of simple effective apps you can install on your smartphone and laptop to start immediately managing your time better.
2. Learn about time management techniques that work for very busy people. We’ll highlight how and why these actually work so you can seamlessly implement them into your life.
3. We’ll share ideas that don’t work, and help problem solve your unique challenges.
=====
Each meet-up is an opportunity to meet and get feedback from other keen, like-minded people looking to streamline and maximize the productivity of their lives. Attend this meet-up to start managing your time better and get the most out of your life.
This presentation will approach the unique challenges that UX professionals face when crafting their career path and finding roles that are both appropriate fits for their existing skillsets and offer opportunities to grow. It will help the attendees understand UX career options and help them craft their work samples and personal interactions to maximize their chances for success, whatever that looks like to them. Participants will learn to use the core concepts they utilize for their project work to how they present themselves and their work.
I’ll cover:
The varying career paths within UX and definitions of success
Information on what employers are looking for in UX professionals
Ways to utilize existing UX skills to illustrate strengths and articulate value within a work environment or to potential employers
Tips to improve work samples to demonstrate expertise
Methods to present and brands oneself
UX Field Research Basics talk, shared at Drupaldelphia, May 2019
For more information on Collaborative Improv check out https://collaborativeimprov.com
Tools help us create beautiful, usable experiences for devices. However, they can also get in the way of creativity: designers and developers sometimes spend more time thinking about process, software, and tools than making. In this talk, I discussed reasons we get distracted by process and tools, why stepping away from process and tools can be helpful, as well as methods to focus more on getting things done.
Presented at FITC Toronto 2016
See details at www.fitc.ca
Overview
Tools help us create beautiful, usable experiences for devices. However, they can also get in the way of creativity; designers and developers sometimes spend more time thinking about process, software, and tools than making. In this talk, Catt will discuss reasons we get distracted by process and tools, why stepping away from process and tools can be helpful, as well as methods to focus more on getting things done.
Objective
To help people worry less and create more.
Target Audience
Designers and developers
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Reasons people get distracted by tools and processes.
Why pausing conversations about tools and processes can be helpful.
How to stop being distracted by the “how”.
Methods to focus more on getting things done.
When it’s okay to discuss processes and tools.
Agile Starts With You: Personal Agility and Subversive Scrum
"You see, to do that you must start with the people – instead of jumping right into the process. You won’t be able to create an agile process, much less a culture, until you’ve created agile people." – Peter Saddington
Agile and Scrum typically evoke thoughts about software development processes, ceremonies, and tools, but at the heart of any successful Agile team are people who embody the values and principles.
As with accountability, agility begins with you, because you are the only thing that is within your domain of control. This presentation reflects on the mindset, strategies, and techniques to be personally agile, and the behaviors you can demonstrate that will infect others, and create trusting, high-performing teams.
My presentation from EuroSTAR 2015:
Your testing is a joke. Or, rather, some parts of some of the testing done by some people reading this will be somewhat analogous to some subset of what some people would accept as jokes. Sometimes. Language can be tricky like that. And that’s one of the things that makes it such a productive tool for jokes, and such a flawed tool for specification.
Edward de Bono, in his Lateral Thinking books, makes a strong connection between humour and creativity. Creativity is a key to testing, but jokes? Well, the punchline for a joke could be a violation of some expectation, the exposure of some ambiguity, an observation that no one else has made, or just making a surprising connection. Jokes can make you think and then laugh. But they don’t always work. Does that sound familiar?
At Linguamatics we have a weekly caption competition. I wondered what my process for creating entries was and as I spent more time thinking about it, I started to notice parallels with the way that I think about how I test. For instance, I might take each of the key entities in the picture and “factor” them – generate a list of features, related concepts, synonyms and so on. In testing I might then look for overlapping factors for potentially interesting test ideas, in the quest for a caption I might try to use the same approach to find an ambiguity and hence a joke.
In this talk I’ll take a genuine joke-making process and de-construct it to make comparisons between aspects of joking and concepts from testing such as the difference between a fault and a failure, oracles, heuristics, factoring, modelling testing as the exploration of a space of possibilities, stopping strategies, bug advocacy and the possibility that a bug, today, in this context might not be one tomorrow or in another.
Yes, there will be some jokes in the session. And I’ll try explain why the groans you’ll hear are a good sign too.
OSS From the Outside In - A Personal Journey With Akka.NETpetabridge
(From .NET Unboxed Conference 2015)
A year ago, I'd never sent in an open-source PR in my life. Today, I collaborate on Akka.NET with awesome developers and end users in 20+ countries every week. How the heck did THAT happen?!
- How do you get involved in a project and build credibility?
- How do you grok all the new ideas you need?
- Once you're involved, how do you build community around the project so people
actually USE the damn thing?
This is a talk about how a complete outsider gets into open-source quickly, and what possibilities that opens up for you personally and in your career.
In this presentation I discuss the approach, and tools we can use to do research on our users when we don't have resources, budget, or buy in from stakeholders.
Spreading the Word: Influencing Opinion Leaders GloballyJoe Hall
Research conducted by BBC and the Future Foundation into opinion leaders, word of mouth and how it works globally. The research covered 9,000 Opinion Leaders across 9 countries and goes beyond previous Word of Mouth research by its global scope and identification of 3 types of Opinion Leader.
The study looks at how Opinion Leaders spread the word in response to brand activity, news and personal experience. It covers all types of Word of Mouth and all types of channel (online and offline) and by studying the make-up of Opinion Leaders in different countries it explores geographical differences in how Word of Mouth works.
How do you build a homepage that serves the competing needs of 64 campuses, millions of prospective and enrolled students and alumni, and more than 88,000 employees? Create two home pages. That's what SUNY and mStoner did for the nation's largest comprehensive public university system.
The X factor - defining the concept of ExperienceStefano Bussolon
The term User Experience has become mainstream. But what is an experience? In this paper I will give a definition of the concept, explaining it within the paradigm of evolutionary psychology. I will briefly describe its main components (executive functions, episodic and semantic memory), mechanisms (learning, reinforcement, evaluation), and goals (the motivational system and the inclusive fitness).
Finally, I will provide some reasons of the usefulness of an explicit definition of experience, both within an academic context and the design and business practice.
Bien former/recruter son Rédacteur Web - SEOCamp'us 2016Ecribouille
Support de présentation de la conférence Bien former, bien recruter son Rédacteur Web au SEOCamp'us 2016 par Syphaïwong Bay.
Syphaïwong Bay
EURL Assonance - http://www.assonance.net/
Conseil en stratégie éditoriale pour le Web, la réussite de vos projets par les leviers éditoriaux.
Information Architecture is the backbone of your website, and needs to be considered strategically in the context of design, user experience, interaction design and more. Get a crash course in IA from Fran Zablocki, digital strategist at mStoner.
The pop-out effect: how to improve choice through information architectureStefano Bussolon
Finding something is the first step in decision making, but making a choice is the second step.
Information architecture should help users not just to find things, but also to make the right choice. From findability to choosability.
Because information becomes knowledge if it helps an agent to take a decision.
The presentation covers the following topics:
- the paradox of choice
- why is it difficult to choose
- the metaphor of pop out
- the cost of the cognitive bottlenecks
- how can we overcome the choice overload
- the role of information architecture to increase the choosability
Les moteurs de recherche proposent des outils gratuits pour les webmasters. Ces « Search Consoles » sont particulièrement utiles pour détecter les points bloquants au bon référencement de votre site. On pense souvent à la Search Console de Google, mais avez-vous déjà testé les outils de Bing ou Yandex ?
Surveillance de vos liens externes, alternative au « Not Provided », mise en place d’alertes, résolution de problèmes d’indexation, …Découvrez quelques astuces pour tirer parti de ces outils !
Depuis 2015, Google a différencié le moteur de recherche mobile par rapport au desktop, découvrez les principaux nouveautés sur cette présentation.
Article : https://www.iprospect.com/fr/fr/le-blog/nouveautes-google-mobile/
Intégrer Yandex dans sa stratégie Search Marketing - SEO Camp'us 2016iProspect France
Le jeudi 7 avril à 15H lors du SEO Camp'us 2016, Alexis Rylko interviendra en compagnie d’Olga Ruiz sur l'évolution et les mythes du moteur de recherche Yandex en SEO.
Techniques SEO 2016 : entités de recherche, navigation à facettes, AJAX et au...Mathieu Gheerbrant
Les techniques d'UX sont parfois en opposition avec le SEO : Lazy-loading, AJAX, navigation à facettes... sans parler des évolutions importantes comme le HTTP/2.
D'autre part, les techniques modernes telles que les entités de recherche sont le point d'orgue de la pertinence et il est indispensable aujourd'hui de les maitriser. Quelques explications dans ce document vous permettront de les appréhender avec plus de facilité.
Voici quelques éléments de réponse, survolés, mais qui vous aideront à démarrer :)
Le baromètre des décideurs B2B par Enterprise@iProspect et Infopro digitaliProspect France
Enterprise@iProspect et Infopro Digital lancent Le baromètre des décideurs B2B, un nouveau rendez-vous semestriel pour tout comprendre du paysage B2B en un clin d’œil.
Peu évolué, en retard, reposant essentiellement sur des pratiques à l’ancienne… le marketing B2B est souvent affublé de nombreux préjugés et clichés. Pour couper court aux idées reçues, Enterprise, agence spécialiste de la communication et du marketing B2B du réseau iProspect, et Infopro Digital, groupe media leader dans l’information professionnelle, les leads BtoB et les services professionnels en France, ont décidé de dresser un état des lieux concret des pratiques réelles du marketing B2B en interrogeant directement les principaux intéressés : les dirigeants et décisionnaires B2B.
Entre le 11 et le 24 octobre derniers, 275 décideurs B2B ont ainsi été interrogés en ligne pour faire le point sur leurs pratiques marketing et mettre en avant les tendances et évolutions du secteur.
What does a Business Analyst need to know about Responsive Web Design? How does RD impact the 6 KAs of a BA? How does RD impact other parts of a development team with whom the BA regularly interacts? What advice can a BA use in their first RD project?
Big project success with small web teamsmStoner, Inc.
Between completely overhauling your main website every three to five years and undertaking countless small projects in between, you don’t have time to spare. You work hard to launch and maintain as many high-quality sites as you can quickly, cheaply, and efficiently.
The smaller your team, the harder the work— let us help. mStoner strategist Fran Zablocki will share insights and tips on managing projects, increasing efficiency, and streamlining tasks. Learn from Fran’s experiences as lead project manager and strategist on dozens of large and small web projects in higher education.
Fran will break down each stage of the web project lifecycle and share processes, plan, and resources that will make your projects as lean and mean as possible — so you and your team can stay successful and sane.
This webinar will cover:
- Documents and processes for great project kickoffs.
- Ways to streamline content reviews and migration processes.
Principles for running meetings that get things done and get out of the way.
- Lean platforms for tight timelines.
- Tools to help save time and energy at each phase.
Getting Started in Project Management for Librarians - Metropolitan New York ...Lisa Chow
Whether you’re organizing an event, renovating or rearranging a space, creating a program, or implementing a grant, you’re managing a project. Project management can help you manage projects more effectively and efficiently. Learn tools and techniques for successfully planning, organizing, and administering projects. To best respond to the constantly changing library world we will be sharing principles and concepts from design thinking and agile project management.
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
Receive a basic overview of iterative and agile-like project management from a design thinking perspective
Gain knowledge to successfully manage a project cycle from start to finish through hands-on activities and exercises
Receive a project management toolkit
Learn about tools, strategies, and techniques to manage projects and teams better
A presentation to my webinar "Techniques for Team Facilitation". It describes lot's of techniques for information gathering, exploring and evaluation, provides Do and Don't for each technique, as well as gives particular examples of its implementation on practice
Browser’s Castle: Defend Your Code Like a DesignerFITC
Presented at Web Unleashed 2017
More info at www.fitc.ca/webu
presented by Liam Oscar Thurston, TWG
and Ksenija Gogic, TWG
Overview
When your designer’s not available, or – better yet – you’re the designer, you need to defend your code… and your designs. In this talk, Liam will cover Design Principles 101, Sketch 101 for Front-End, How to Defend Your Work, and lots more. Over a decade of leading design and engineering teams to achieve collaborative glory, Liam has learned how to help both succeed. Ksenija Gogic, front-end superhero of TWG fame will join Liam to regale you with tips from both sides of the struggle.
Objective
To empower all front-end developers to succeed as designers and defenders while creating pure beauty in the browser.
Target Audience
Front-end developers, designers, product managers
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Junior understanding of design tools, intermediate + understanding of front-end frameworks.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Design Principles 101
Sketch 101 for Front-end
How to Defend Your Work
Lessons From the Front-End
How to Get Along With Your Team
Driving UX, Design, & Development collaboratively through the EnterpriseLean Startup Co.
Amee Mungo, Digital Transformation at Capital One, leads a discussion on the Collaboration between UX, Design, and Development in Enterprise Organizations. With John Whalen (Founder, Brilliant Experience), Scott Childs (Experience Design Lead, Capital One).
Slides from a 5/10/2017 talk at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center (@theCenter) about a lean research mindset, the mechanics of learning from users, and the structure of a research prototype test session.
Make sure that you manage your business projects, rather than having your projects manage you.
Turn your business goals into reality by dividing them into a series of projects. Projects with a clearly defined end-point. Projects that can be controlled and managed. Projects that succeed.
Equip yourself with the mindset of a project manager, the single-minded focus required to achieve major goals, and the discipline to make sure the small things are not forgotten. Learn how to balance the project management triangle of Scope, Time & Cost.
There might be some hard decisions to make along the way - this is the true cost of getting what you want.
Our UX Designer Nádia Ferreira attended this year's EuroIA conference in Brussels. This debrief offers a glimpse on the topics that were discussed and sums up our most important learnings.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
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7. Characteristics:
• Takes 10 - 14 months
• All consuming for 3 months
• Owns your world entirely
• But then leaves for like 3 to 5 years so
you can...
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13. Small Projects:
• Alumni community site
• Capital campaign microsite
• Campus anniversary site
• Those “Hey I need a website” sites
• Those “Oh you didn’t know about that
site?” sites
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14. Small Projects:
• Alumni community site
• Capital campaign microsite
• Campus anniversary site
• Those “Hey I need a website” sites
• Those “Oh you didn’t know about that
site?” sites
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15. What to do?
a. Wrestle them all at the same time
b. Toss the lightest ones first
c. Shock them with an electrified t-shirt
d. Tackle them with lean, mean processes,
tools and communication
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16. What to do?
a. Wrestle them all at the same time
b. Toss the lightest ones first
c. Shock them with an electrified t-shirt
d. Tackle them with lean, mean processes,
tools and communication
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17. Why?
Because you don’t have unlimited:
Time You need it as quickly as possible.
Budget You aren’t minting money.
People Maybe it is just you! #higheredsolo
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18. How?
By taking the project lifecycle and trimming
the fat.
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19. How?
By taking the project lifecycle and trimming
the fat.
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25. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Portfolio management - does this Project need to happen?
• Does this meet a need?
• Do we have the time/budget/resources to make this
happen?
• Do we have those resources right now?
Strategy
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26. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Be realistic - if the answer is no, you won’t do yourself
favors later on by saying yes
• Make more time for the right projects by never starting
the wrong ones
• Ultimate goal is to become more proactive, less reactive
Strategy
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27. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Don’t skip it just because “oh my gosh can’t we just get
this project done already?!”
• Give yourself time to think by scheduling meetings
outside the office.
• Yes, I am suggesting you meet with yourself. Make it
sound important.
Strategy
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28. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
Need / Want / Wish Grid
• Identify what must be included and what can wait
• Helps to define scope
• Helps channel creative but distracting ideas to
somewhere useful
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29. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Set measurable goals
• Don’t get paralyzed by the details
• Don’t worry if there aren’t already metrics
• Pick a number, shoot for it
• Adjust later when you evaluate
Measurable Goals
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30. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
Examples of measurable goals
• Reach ___ people on Facebook.
• Increase engagement ___ percent.
• Drive ___ people to the website.
• Prompt ___ people to inquire.
• Get ___ people to apply.
• Attract ___ views of a YouTube video.
Measurable Goals
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31. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
SWOT
Analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
ThreatsOpportunities
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32. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
Strategy
Brief
• Pull it all together in one lean document
• 2-5 pages
• Business Case
• Goals
• Need / Want / Wish Requirements
• SWOT
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34. • Planning is hard, particularly if you don’t have history
on how long things take
• Be conservative and take your best guess.
Planning
Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
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35. • Begin at the end.
• When do you need it done?
• Back it up from there.
• Be realistic.
Planning
Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
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36. • Identify resources, roles, responsibilities up front
• Use collaborative tools to help save time
• Track time (even if it is a really rough estimate)
Planning
Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
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37. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Browser - based project and resource planning
• Collaborative - allows sharing, commenting,
discussions
• Current - dates adjust automatically
• Compatible with MS excel, project
• $160 / year
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39. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Free, Collaborative cloud scheduling
• Integration with Google Drive and Business
• Features similar to Smartsheet
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41. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Outlines roles and responsibilities for project teams
• Map to position or individual
• Helps set expectations from the start
Responsibilites
List
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43. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• If you are having trouble estimating, this can help
• Keep it simple and use tools to keep it lean
Time Tracking
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44. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• If you are having trouble estimating, this can help
• Keep it simple and use tools to keep it lean
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46. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Go back to the basics (paper prototyping, back of
napkin).
• Online tools can save an enormous amount of time
here on collaboration
Creative
Production
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47. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Help quickly organize and weight information visually
without needing heavy design work
• Allow focus on important elements such as
information architecture, content organization,
feature space
Wireframes &
Prototypes
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48. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Don’t be fancy
• Sketch it out - you don’t
need to be an artist
• 5 minutes, 5 people
• Quick, cheap way to test
visual ideas
Back of Napkin
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49. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• One sheet (or napkin)
for each page element
• Good for quickly
rearranging page
elements and testing
different layouts
Paper Prototypes
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50. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Collaborative wireframing
• Allows commenting, sharing, versioning
• Let you discuss functionality in the context of the
design instead of separately
• $14 / month for small teams
Hotgloo
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52. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• 10 minutes of silence
• Cut the chatter and get everyone’s input at the same
time
• Simply look at what is in front of you and write your
thoughts.
• Use group chat to share ideas
• Open to discussion afterward
Creative Review
Meetings
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53. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Usability / IA / Wireframes / Designs
• Beyond your core team
• As efficiently as possible
• Gives you real results to justify your decisions
Testing
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54. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Efficient - use your existing student/faculty/staff/
alumni email lists
Surveys
• Free basic service, $17 / month for unlimited
questions responses
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55. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• OptimalSort: Online card sorting
• TreeJack: IA pathing
• Chalkmark: Wireframe / Design Heat Mapping
• $109 / month for each
Optimal
Workshop
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58. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• www.responsinator.com
• Lets you see what your site looks like on muliple
devices quickly
• Free!
Responsive
Design
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60. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Accessibility: cynthiasays.com
• W3C compliance: validator.w3.org
• Page performance: tools.pingdom.com/fpt
• Page performance: www.webpagetest.org
Test, Test, Test
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61. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Can be one of the most time-consuming tasks in any
project
• Centralizing your effort on the cloud can reduce
coordination time considerably
Content Creation
& Migration
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62. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Use bookmarks to allow users to quickly jump to
different pages
• Eliminate tons of emails / attachments
• Use your information architecture as the foundation
• Track what copy is in, what is missing, when it’s due
Google Docs w/
Bookmarks
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66. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• You want your code to be
• in one place
• shared with everyone who needs it
• always current
Implementation
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67. • When more than one developer is working on the
code, having version control is a must
• Subversion allows code segments to be ‘checked
out’ so that no one else can alter them
• Allows collaboration and saves on code re-writes
• git-scm.com
Version Control:
Git
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68. • Keeps the bug list up to date
• Automatically tracks changes and allows reversions
• Allows comments and live chat while viewing
• Invaluable during crunch time when heads are down
and meetings can’t happen
Bug tracking:
Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
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70. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• So easy to skip because “Oh my gosh we just
finished the project! Time for cake!”
• Crucially important to all the prior steps on the
NEXT project you do.
Evaluation
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71. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• So easy to skip because “Oh my gosh we just
finished the project! Time for cake!”
• Crucially important to all the prior steps on the
NEXT project you do.
Evaluation
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72. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Scheduled right after launch
• Honest assessment:
• Did we meet our goals?
• How close were our estimates?
• What did we do right?
• What did we do wrong?
• What did we not see coming?
• Make it the first thing you look at the next time you
do a project like this
Project Debrief
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73. Strategize Plan Create Implement Evaluate
• Free, powerful. Get it.
• Allow you to measure against past pages
• Tons of options for goal setting
• Pathing and funnel reports
• Visitor behavior
• Device usage (ie mobile)
• If you have a brand new site, be sure this is
installed!
Google Analytics
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75. • Lean - cut out everything that is unnecessary, but
don’t skip anything that is necessary
• Get away from email as much as possible
• Reduce the time wasted on feedback loops (ie: the
endless reply all email thread from hell)
Communication
& Collaboration
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76. • Don’t meet to discuss, meet to decide
• Don’t have one if you don’t need one
• Everyone reviews/comments before the meeting
starts
Meetings
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77. • Save time by getting the basics done right
• Agendas
• Note-taking
• Minutes
Meetings
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78. Golden Rule: never have a meeting without one.
Template:
• Date, time, connection method
• Agenda items
• Review deliverables from last meeting
• Discuss open items
• Add new items
• Upcoming deliverables and responsibility
• Upcoming milestones (next 3-5)
• Next meeting (if known)
Agendas
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79. Golden Rule: always take notes. No, you won’t remember.
• Designate a meeting leader and note-taker
• Have a note-taking buddy system (ie: Fran always
takes notes when Susan leads the meeting).
Meeting Notes
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80. Golden Rule: Copy and paste the agenda and you are
halfway there!
• Date, time
• Attendance
• Agenda items
• Review deliverables from last meeting (notes in italics)
• Discuss open items (notes in italics)
• Add new items
• Repeat upcoming deliverables & milestones (next 3-5)
• Schedule next meeting date while you have everyone’s
attention
Minutes
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81. Sometimes you need to pull your head up and see where
you are in relation to where you should be.
• Can be monthly, quarterly. Less frequent than regular
meetings
• Compare estimated timeline to actual
• Let you flag slippage and discuss causes of and
solutions for issues
Periodic Status
Reports
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84. • Shared calendars allow different levels of detail,
including showing anyone (the public) when you are
busy
• Can share with those who don’t have Google accounts.
• ‘Find a time’ allows you to quickly see what is open for
a group of people
• Free.
Google Calendar
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86. When in-person meetings aren’t possible
• Hangouts are a great way to see people who might be
remotely located.
• Lots of tools
• Chat room
• Screen sharing
• Document collaboration with Google Drive
• Still free.
Google Hangouts
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90. Bringing it all Together:
Lean Platform
for Small Projects
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91. Lean Platform
• We’ve heard many times from clients about the need
for an approach that is the right fit for small projects
and small teams
• We’ve created new approaches tailored to provide
focused, nimble web solutions
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93. Why Wordpress?
• Powerful platform
• Easy to use: industry standard for interface usability
• Quick to implement
• Saves time with parallel production of design and
content
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94. Why Wordpress?
• Strong base functionality
• Strong development community with variety of plugins
and frameworks to meet different needs
• Good fit for departments and schools with small web
teams that need a CMS sized for them
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95. Lean Platform,
Process & Tools
• Using many of the tools, techniques and strategies
you’ve seen here today
• 5-6 month time to complete
• Parallel tracking of phases
• Tailored for smaller projects and smaller teams
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