If you’re not sick of my voice yet, you may be interested to hear me present at the next Australian Computer Society forum here in Canberra.
Ain’t no backseat driver!
Venue: Canberra Southern Cross Club Corinna Street Phillip ACT
Date: 6pm, Tuesday 3rd June 2008
Register: ACS website
“We’re often so focused on eliciting business requirements for systems, managing the relationships between the business owners and the vendors and developers of the technology that we forget we’re delivering a system for real users. So where are the users in your project’s methodology?”
Like my presentation to the Australian Business Association of Australia, I’ll be looking at user-centred design activities like storyboarding and prototyping as a way to realise the benefits of adoption that have come out of Web 2.0 applications. I’ll be drawing on some of my experience working with BAs, vendors and developers to show examples of what to do and what not to do in this space, and show how gaining user acceptance through doing iterations of conceptual design, early and often, can help with change management and mitigate the risks of your project going pear-shaped … mmm… pears ….
Hope to see you then!
M
