I collected more survey responses at the recent Tampa IIBA meetup, and the results are posted below.
List 5-8 steps you take during a typical project.
- listen – to stakeholders and customers
- analyze – documents, data, atc. to understand thhings further
- repeat back what I’m hearing to make sure I’m understanding correctly
- synthesize – the details
- document – as needed(e.g., Visio diagramsPowerPoint decks, Word, tool, etc.)
- solution
- help with implementing
- assess and improve – if/as needed
- understand the problem
- understand the environment
- gather the requirements
- align with IT on design
- test
- train
- deploy
- follow-up
- watch how it is currently done
- listen to clients’ pain points
- define goals of project
- critical path tasks
- pros/cons of tasks
- impacts
- risks
- goals
- discovery – high level
- analysis / evaluation
- presentation of options
- requirements gathering
- epic / feature / story definition’
- prioritization
- who is driving the requirements?
- focus on what is needed for project
- who is going to use the product?
- elicit requirements
- hold focus groups
- create mock-ups
- test
- write user stories
- analyze
- document process
- identify waste (Lean)
- communicate
- document plan / changes
- meeting
- documentation
- strategy
- execution plan
- reporting plan
List some steps you took on a weird or non-standard project.
- built a filter
- create strategy to hit KPIs
- design sprint
- design thinking
- identify end results
- moved heavy equipment
- resources and deliverables
- start with techniques from junior team members
- translating training documents into Portuguese
- understanding cultural and legal requirements in a foreign country
- worked with a mechanic
Name three software tools you use most.
- Excel (6)
- Outlook (5)
- Jira (3)
- Azure DevOps (2)
- MS Dynamics (2)
- MS Teams (2)
- SharePoint (2)
- Bullhorn (1)
- Confluence (1)
- Kingsway Soft (1)
- MS Office tools (1)
- Power BI (1)
- PowerPoint (1)
- Scribe (1)
- Siebel (1)
- Skype (1)
- Slack (1)
- Version One (1)
- Visio (1)
- Visual Studio Team Services (now Azure DevOps) (VSTS) (1)
- Word (1)
Name three non-software techniques you use most.
- change management
- coffees with customers
- coffees with teams
- collaboration
- conference calls
- design thinking
- development efforts
- documenting notes/decisions
- drinking
- face-to-face technique
- focus groups
- interviewing
- interviews
- prioritization (MOSCOW)
- process design
- prototyping (can be on paper)
- relationship building
- sketching
- stakeholder engagement
- stakeholder engagement – visioning to execution and post-assessment
- working out
Name the goals of a couple of different projects.
- add enhancements to work flow app
- automate highly administrative, easily repeatable processes which have wide reach
- automate workflow
- automate workflows
- bring foreign locations into a global system
- business process architecture
- consolidate master data
- design processes
- develop new software
- establish standards for DevOps
- establish vision for various automation
- I work for teams impplementing Dynamics CRM worldwide. I specialize in data migration and integration.
- improve the usage of internal and external data
- replace manual tools with applications
- simplify / redesign process
- standardize / simplify a process or interface
- technical strategy for product
- transform the customer experience (inside and outside)