We have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to present a session at Drupal Downunder 2012 conference in Melbourne on 14th Jan.
THE DARK ARTS OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS: REQUIREMENTS GATHERING WITH MIND MAPS FOR A DRUPAL PROJECT
Time slot: 14 January 13:30 - 14:15
Room: Powerful CMS Room
Track: The Business of Drupal
Experience level: Beginner
Presenter(s): Jason Brooks
Although the actual scale of the issue is arguable, it's well established in the Project Management community that a very significant proportion of failed projects are due to poor requirements gathering in the early stages of defining project.
There are many approaches, and no magic solutions - but I'll outline one approach that we take, utilising a Mindmap to reduce the technobabble, and assisting the site builder and client to come to terms on a shared set of expectations.
- Capturing Requirements (you want it to make you coffee too?)
- Iterative Analysis (cleaning up the mess)
- Scoping
- Selecting Contrib Modules.
We'll walk through using a small business website scenario to illustrate the process.
We had a great time, and the rest of the conference is looking great as well! Thanks to everyone at the session, and thanks for the great feedback afterwards.
If you attended the session, I encourage you to leave feedback on the session page here. We're interested if you would like further sessions in the "Dark Arts of Business Analysis" series?
And if you have further questions or would like to contact us - please use the contact form here, or msg me @mudsurfer on twitter or drupal.org.
Some of the links to resources mentioned in today's session:
http://www.mind-mapping.org/
http://www.mind-mapping.org/VicsPicks/category/all-software/
http://www.mindmeister.com/ (free trial)
http://www.thebrain.com/ (free trial)
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
BABoK v2 on Googlebooks
Modern Analyst review of BABoK
http://www.geneva.theiiba.org/download/BABOK20overview.pdf
And anyone interested in following the trends in mindmapping and mindmapping tools - I thoroughly recommend following these guys on twitter:
@VicGee mind-mapping.org
@visualmapper Wallace Tait visualmapper.org
@RoyGrubb informationtamers.com
Thanks!
Jason Brooks
