Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Portal!: The Game
Nick Kizirnis and I collaborated on a workshop delivered (for the first time) at KM World 2005 in San Jose last week (Nov 14). Although only a half-day workshop, we attempted to create exercises for simulating the experience of group decision-making on critical portal design process decisions. We learned that the workshop materials, method, and approach worked - but Portal! The Game ... will take a full day in the future.
Workshop materials are posted for participants, and colleagues to find, share, read, and respond.
Key workshop discussions:
The KM World conference includes Intranets, Content Management, and Streaming Media now. It has become a multi-purpose consultant exchange and trade show, and has morphed nicely to accommodate the evolution of technology and themes. When I last attended in 2000, I delivered a workshop and paper on Knowledge Strategy. The paper has been republished twice in India over the last few years. (But I have dropped the workshop from current inventory.) In 2000 there were over a hundred tech vendors - this year, maybe 2 dozen real tech vendors, but they have working products and can demonstrate real value. Ones to
Workshop materials are posted for participants, and colleagues to find, share, read, and respond.
Key workshop discussions:
- Know your business' drivers (industry, competitive) and understand organizational needs
- Know your Infrastructure and understand Features
- Planning: Gather Resources from everywhere, anywhere
- Follow an Agile Process - From Planning, Requirements, through Deployment
- Adopt user research methods for requirements and usability
- Learn from Nielsen's best practices
- Adopt Information Architecture practices for portal design
The KM World conference includes Intranets, Content Management, and Streaming Media now. It has become a multi-purpose consultant exchange and trade show, and has morphed nicely to accommodate the evolution of technology and themes. When I last attended in 2000, I delivered a workshop and paper on Knowledge Strategy. The paper has been republished twice in India over the last few years. (But I have dropped the workshop from current inventory.) In 2000 there were over a hundred tech vendors - this year, maybe 2 dozen real tech vendors, but they have working products and can demonstrate real value. Ones to
