SharePoint Saturday CincinnatiOctober 27, 2012

Use Rainbows, Hot Tubs &

Sailboat to Build Better

SharePoint Solutions

Michelle Caldwell

ICC

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Michelle Caldwell

SharePoint Portfolio & Delivery Executive @ ICC

SharePoint Saturday CincinnatiOctober 27, 2012

Conversations

“Smarter conversations equals better products, it’s so f*&#@ingobvious” -Hugh MacLeodGapingvoid.com

“Start with getting better at collaboration to demonstrate software sooner.”-Dean StevensLeadingagile.com

“Information and Tactics are not assets – Relationships and Conversations are.”-Mindmulch.net

SharePoint Rocks!

You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t think so

Disclaimer

So Why is it so hard?

IT and Business speak different

languages

Believe it of not –

SharePoint Knows Nothing!

TECH FEATURES

I want a Wiki….

You need an

InfoPath Form

You need Nintex

We need FAST

I want a KPI

Dashboard

You need Blogs

SharePoint is not the problem

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Albert Einstein

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein

What can we do?

Why is it so hard to get Good

requirements?

Most Meetings are Unproductive

• The Facts

• 11 million• 61.8 meetings a month• 50% unproductive• 31 hours per month

• The Affects

• 91% Daydreaming• 96% Miss Meetings• 95% Miss parts of Meetings• 73% Bring other work to

Meetings• 39% Fall Asleep

Even Cats learn from

games

…games are, first and foremost,

learning systems..

- Learning Institute of Games

Why Games?

Elements of Serious Games

Structured Rules

PurposefulDefinite outcome

Time-bound Time boxed

Participatory

Success depends on everyone

pitching in

UnbiasedEven-handed and

impartial

Comparison

Gamification

• FourSquare

• LinkedIn

• Gamify America

• WII Fit

• XBOX Live

• GetGlue

• Mint

• Shopkick

Serious Games

• Close Combat: Marines

• X-Plane

• Steel Beasts Professional

• Ship Simulator

• Microsoft Flight Simulator

OPEN

EXPLOR

CLOSE

Game Design

Serious Games

Gamification

Brainstorming

Simulation

eLearning

Role-playing

Serious Games are Not

Where can I find out more?

Sample List

• 20/20 Vision

• Buy a Feature

• Give Them a Hot Tub – “Hot Tub Time Machine”

• Me and My Shadow

• Product Box

• Prune the Product Tree

• Speed Boat – Sail Boat

• Spider Web

• Start Your Day

• The Apprentice

• Low Tech Social Network

• Remember the Future

• Show and Tell

Innovation Games Samples

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Speed BoatRainbow

Hot Tub

Who Uses Innovation Games

Let’s Play

• Sailboat – Speedboat

• This game is used to assess the current situation

Recommended use for this game

• Identify what is wrong with your existing products and services

• Identify what customers like about the existing product or services*

*This innovation game has been slightly modified from the original Speed boat game

Let’s Play

• Hot Tub

• Team provides feedback on outrageous features to establish what is truly essential

Recommended use of this game

Transform seemingly Outrageous feature requests into true product or service innovation

Let’s Play

• Requirements Rainbow

• Teams work together to refine requirements

Requirements refinement and/or audit

Recommended use of this game

Looking Back………….

Analysis is broken

Step Away from the questionnaires!

We don’t know what we don’t know……….And if you don’t know what the need

is how can you solve it?

Requirements aren’t tech features

Questions & Evals

ScarePint

Right here at the UC Bearcat Lounge immediately following the closing session

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References

• http://innovationgames.com/

• http://www.instituteofplay.org/about/context/why-games-learning/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_game