How to produce professional deliverables on a limited budget - Presented at IT-dagene and EuroIA COPENHAGEN 2010

1. Big hat, small herd
How to produce professional
deliverables on a limited budget
Søren Muus, FatDUX Copenhagen

2. ”Europe?
- big hat,
no cattle..”

3. DUX

7. Size Matters!
People may have equal
qualifications, but their
resources can verry

9. Size Doesn’t Matter!
Despite the magnetude
of a given problem, the
complexity is the same

10. (1) Problem
= Solution Barrier Factor™
No. of resources

11. (1) Problem
= 0.125
Team of 8
(1) Problem
= 0.25 0.25 > 0.125
Team of 4
(1) Problem (1) Problem
= 0.125 =
Team of 8 Team of 4 x ?

12. X = Big hat
The ability to think BIG
despite of limited resources

13. B
A

14. B
A

15. B
A

16. Case:
Beredskabsstyrelsens online dataregistrering- og indberetningssystem
ODIN
The Danish Emergency Management Agency’s
Online Data Registration and Reporting System

18. Report by
leading officer
Report approved
by Senior officer
Report Submitted
to DEMA database
Statistic report on
basis of
submitted data
Reccommodations
on basis if statistic
report
Decisions to improve efforts on
basis of reccommondations

19. Present application

20. Present application

21. Initial usertest
@%&§$:(!!
ARRGH!!!

22. First report
Observations
..and reccommondations

23. Paper prototype in Powerpoint

24. Paper prototype in Powerpoint

25. Paper prototype in Powerpoint

26. Defining the problems
Mandskab Timerapport
Kommunalt
beredskab
Politirapport
Superbruger
LOG-ind GIS-kort

27. Briefing and initial planning

28. Internal communication

29. The technical specifications

30. Final test of improved prototype

32. Design guide lines for developers

33. ”Prêt à porte” visual design

34. Page design for future functions

35. Detailed proces diagrams

36. Usertest with Powerpoint
reccommodations
Paper prototype Powerpoint
in Powerpoint
More testing, and Powerpoint
final reccommodations
Series of workshops with all Powerpoint
shareholders, addressing clusters of Base Camp
identified problems
Development specifications and .pdf (from Indesign)
design guide lines on the fly Excel
Done!
– And ready to go into production

37. Thank you!