1. Use Rainbows, Hot Tubs & Sailboat to
Build Better SharePoint Solutions
Michelle Caldwell
ICC

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4. About Michelle
Michelle Caldwell
SharePoint Portfolio & Delivery Executive @ ICC
@shellecaldwell
linkedin.com/in/
michellecaldwell
mcaldwell@iccohio.com

5. “Smarter conversations
“Information and
equals better products,
Tactics are not assets –
it’s so f*&#@ing obvious”
Relationships and
-Hugh MacLeod
Conversations are.”
Gapingvoid.com
-Mindmulch.net
“Start with getting better
at collaboration to
demonstrate software
sooner.”
-Dean Stevens
Conversations Leadingagile.com

6. SharePoint Rocks!
Disclaimer
You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t think so

7. Why is it so Hard?

8. IT and Business speak different languages

9. Believe it or not - SharePoint Knows Nothing!

10. You need I want a
an InfoPath Wiki….
Form
You need TECH I want a
Blogs KPI
FEATURES
Dashboard
You need
Nintex
We need
FAST

11. SharePoint is Not the Problem

12. What Can We Do?
“Insanity is doing the same thing,
over and over again, but expecting
different results.”
― Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a
process of our thinking. It cannot be
changed without changing our
thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

13. Why is it so hard to get Good requirements?

14. Most Meetings are Unproductive
The Facts The Affects
• 11 million • 91% Daydreaming
• 61.8 meetings a month • 96% Miss Meetings
• 50% unproductive • 95% Miss parts of Meetings
• 31 hours per month • 73% Bring other work to Meetings
• 39% Fall Asleep

15. Even Cats
Why Games? learn from
games
…games are, first
and foremost,
learning systems..
- Learning Institute of Games

16. Elements of Serious Games
• Structured • Participatory
• Rules • Success depends on everyone
pitching in
• Purposeful
• Definite outcome • Unbiased
• Even-handed and impartial
• Time-bound
• Time boxed

17. SERIOUS GAMES ARE NOT
Serious Games
Gamification
Brainstorming
Simulation
eLearning
Role-playing

18. Where can I find out more?

19. Sample list of Innovation Games
• 20/20 Vision • Speed Boat – Sail Boat
• Buy a Feature • Spider Web
• Give Them a Hot Tub – “Hot Tub • Start Your Day
Time Machine” • The Apprentice
• Me and My Shadow • Low Tech Social Network
• Product Box • Remember the Future
• Prune the Product Tree • Show and Tell

20. Innovation Games Samples

21. Who Uses Innovation Games?

22. Let’s Play
Sailboat – Speedboat
This game is used to assess
the current situation

23. Recommended use for this game
• Identify what is wrong with your
existing products and services
• Identify what customers like
about the existing product or
services*
*This innovation game has been slightly modified from the
original Speed boat game

24. Let’s Play
• Hot Tub
• Team provides feedback on
outrageous features to
establish what is truly
essential

25. Recommended use of this game
Transform seemingly Outrageous
feature requests into true product or
service innovation

26. Let’s Play
• Requirements Rainbow
• Teams work together to
refine requirements

27. Recommended use of this game
Requirements refinement and/or audit

28. Looking Back
Analysis is broken
Step Away from the questionnaires!
We don’t know what we don’t know……….
And if you don’t know what the need is
how can you solve it?
Requirements aren’t tech features

29. Questions

30. References
• http://innovationgames.com/
• http://www.instituteofplay.org/about/context/why-games-learning/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_game