Slides for a talk to #codecamp Christchurch 2015 SharePoint stream. My goal was to show how valuable it is for developers to spend time with users. We did a great little group work item near the end that worked really well to give everyone an example of and practice creating personas.

2. Dorje McKinnon
www.vajra.co.nz

3. Strategies for building a
great digital workplace
Code camp Christchurch 16 May 2015
1pm – 1:55
The sleeping slot
SharePoint and O365 stream
Pre lunch O365 forms and workflow by Hendrik Venter

4. Dim aDigitalWorkplace As String
aDigitalWorkplace =

5. The digital workplace lives at
the intersection of people,
organization and tools.
Jane McConnell

6. Print aDigitalWorkplace.graphic

7. Source : http://www.netjmc.com/leadership/wirearchy-in-the-workplace-2/

8. Print aDigitalWorkplace.reality

10. Print aDigitalWorkplace.corporate

12. Don’t teach me anything new

15. http://stupidsystem.org/2013/06/07/this-goes-to-eleven-the-bus-drivers-many-interfaces/

16. aDigitalWorkplace.great = ???

18. • Health
• Productivity
• Engagement
• Worth

19. • Health
• Productivity
• Engagement
• Worth

20. aDigitalWorkplace.great.strategy

22. Doing things that the phone app
can’t.
A short story

29. Bevan

31. Tahiti

34. Noosa

35. What systems/things is Bevan
going to use in his digital
workplace to go on holiday ?

36. Pay system

37. Wife
https://www.flickr.com/photos/erix/499050773

38. Leave system

39. Manager approval

40. Leave status

41. Hmmm

42. Don’t you just want to help him ?

51. What techniques have we used
there ?

52. What techniques have we used
there ?
• User story / narrative / journey
• Persona
• Needs analysis
• Requirements definition

53. Great digital workplace
User story
Persona
Needs analysis
Requirements definition

55. So why don’t we make the digital
workplace do things the existing
tools can’t do!

60. https://www.flickr.com/photos/taedc/6584732729/

62. What do you notice about this ?

68. How come Bevan’s world got
better ?
• “doing things the other systems can’t”
• User centered
• Understand the big picture

69. aDigitalWorkplace.great.strategy

73. Design thinking

74. Design thinking
Personas Needs analysis
Paper prototypes User testing

75. Design thinking - challenge
1. Give me – name of an organization in NZ with more than 1000 staff,
80% of whom don’t sit at a computer terminal.
2. Persona development
3. How are you going to get all these people to access the cool
software you’ve created ?

77. User story
Persona
Needs analysis
Requirements definition
aDigitalWorkplace.great.strategy
Do what others can’t
Spend time with users
Deliver simplicity
Take on complexity
Learn_._Do

78. aDigitalWorkplace.great.strategy
• Everyone spend time with users
• Take on complexity
• Present simplicity