[Sigia-l] IA Practice Maturation- European practice

[Heather Johnson]

Peter,

Wow! That diagram gave me flashbacks from a previous job where we all tried
to do define "our process." (We got a little irritable about it after a
while, hence the quote marks around that phrase.) We came up with a similar
outline, but the arguments it generated amongst sales, marketing,
programmers, designers, and IA were a bit heated sometimes.

While you characterize your diagram as a bit messy, I think that reflects
the reality of actually doing the work. It is messy and hard to put on paper
and very iterative, and it almost always varies by project. But overall I
think the diagram is pretty accurate from my own experience.

Heather Johnson


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From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
PeterV
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:59 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] IA Practice Maturation- European practice


Hi all,
I was thinking and playing around with all the types of research and
deliverables we do, and how they fit in a process and the team. Trying to
figure out how they all hang together, and what the most useful parts (in
which circumstances) are.

I made a (messy) diagram (here http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/000062.html ),
I'd be interested in hearing people's opinions on how that compares with
their *real life* experiences, or what elements of IA practice they found
most useful / not so useful in which circumstances.
Cheers,
PeterV
http://petervandijck.net