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SharePoint Saturday CincinnatiOctober 27, 2012
Effective Requirements Gathering: How to organize and run your workshops
By Professor Point
Effective Requirements GatheringHow to organize and run your workshops
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Presented By: Ruven Gotz
Effective Requirements GatheringHow to organize and run your workshops
#SPSCINCI NNATI @ruveng
Presented By: Ruven Gotz
© 2011 Ruven Gotz
What makes something a requirement?
We can do that for $10
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We can do that for $1 Million
We require a jumbo solution to get to our destination
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We require a jumbo solution to get to our destination
Sometimes, you do need this
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It’s the destination that matters: The outcome
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Kitchen sink projects
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Your project will change over time
Unexpected things happen
More than half of “required” features never get used
Result of a kitchen sink project
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Shift gears
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SharePoint chicken & egg problem
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Based on real-world experience
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Take away: Tools YOU can use
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Remaining Agenda
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DON’T demo SharePoint
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Initial discovery workshop
SharePoint Workshop
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Agenda
• About the Project , Our Team & Goals• SharePoint Overview • Department and Role• Document Collaboration• Document Storage and Search• Compliance, Records Management & Off-line• Questions
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About the Project, Our Team & Goals
About this Project• Determine the requirements and scope for a SharePoint
implementation at ABC Corp.
Our Team• Alison Andrews – Project Manager• Bob Baker – Technical Architect• Carol Conrad – SharePoint Analyst• Don Drummond – Infrastructure Analyst
Workshop Goals• Set expectations• Gather your input• Keep it to an hour (+ optional half-hour for further questions)
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SharePoint 2007 Overview
Collaboration
Portal
SearchEnterpriseContentManagement
BusinessProcess
andForms
BusinessIntelligence
Documents/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite,” Outlook integration, offline documents/lists Virtual Teams/Global Teams
Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control
Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich search for people and business data
Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow
OOB workflows, WF integration, rich and Web forms–based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO
Server-based Microsoft Office Excel®
spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, business intelligence Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards
Platform ServicesWorkspaces, Mgmt,
Security, Storage,Topology, Site Model
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SharePoint 2010 Overview Ribbon UISharePoint WorkspaceSharePoint MobileOffice Client and Office Web App IntegrationStandards SupportIntranet, Extranet, Team Collaboration
Tagging, Tag Cloud, RatingsSocial BookmarkingBlogs and WikisMy SitesActivity FeedsProfiles and ExpertiseOrg Browser
Enterprise Content TypesMetadata and NavigationDocument SetsMulti-stage DispositionAudio and Video Content TypesRemote Blob StorageList EnhancementsOrganizing Information
Social RelevancePhonetic SearchNavigationFAST IntegrationEnhanced PipelineSearch
PerformancePoint ServicesExcel ServicesChart Web PartVisio ServicesWeb AnalyticsSQL Server IntegrationPowerPivotBusiness Intelligence
Business Connectivity ServicesInfoPath Form ServicesExternal ListsWorkflowSharePoint DesignerVisual StudioAPI EnhancementsREST/ATOM/RSSBuilding complex solutions on top of SharePoint
Communities
Search
Sites
Composites
ContentInsights
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Department and Role
Please introduce yourself:• Name• Department• What is your role within your department?• How do you interact with technology to do your job?• How does the current technology help you (or hinder
you) from doing your job?
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Document Collaboration
• Do you work on documents with others?• How do you collaborate (e-mail, shared drive) ?
• What document types do you create?• Which programs do you use?
• Do your documents require multiple reviews and edits? Is approval required?• How do you implement the required workflow?
• How do you get the final information out to the audience that needs it?• Do you publish PDF’s? • How are they distributed/posted?
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Document Storage and Search
• Can you find the documents that you need, when you need them?• Does your shared drive folder hierarchy work well?• How long does it take to find a document? At what point do
you give up?• When you create a document, do you know where it
should be saved?• Are documents saved in more than one location to ease
retrieval? • Does search work well?
• What features would you like to see in search that would make it better for you and your team.
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Compliance, Records Management & Off-line
• Do you have any regulatory requirements that you need to meet?• ISO 9000• Sarbanes-Oxley – Bill 198
• How are records management policies implemented?• Are there specific policies for document retention and
destruction.
• Do you have a need for off-line access?• Do you travel off-site for your work• Do you need to work when you are disconnected from the
network.
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Questions
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Roadmap
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OK to demo SharePoint
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Same Page
Abstract
Concrete
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Mind Mapping Demonstration
Back on track
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Navigation workshops
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Navigational Map
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Document inventory workshops
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Explain Metadata
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Document Inventory Worksheet
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Build the Taxonomy
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Document Inventory Taxonomy Map
Wireframing Workshops
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Balsamiq
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Business Process Workshops
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My Goals for You
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