[Sigia-l] at what point does IA et al. become meaningless?

[Samantha Starmer]

> At 05:31 17/08/2005, Skot Nelson wrote:
>> The list seems to be populated by people who are primarily working on
>> large projects, with (presumably) sizable budgets.

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Stew Dean wrote:
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> There is a need for a 'producer' role - that is some one who has the vision 
> can put that down in such a way as the rest of the team can understand it.

...As the project shrinks the most obvious thing that happens is roles shrink so 
> one person will take on many roles. Therefore it's more likely that the user 
> experience design work is done by someone who doesn't have the job title IA. It 
> could be a producer who also manages clients, it could be the project manager 
> or it could be the visual designer or even front end coder.

I actually find this 'IA vision' role the most interesting.  I have had positions where my scope was core IA deliverables, but I find that I prefer positions like my current job where I use my IA slant to shape the strategy and long term thought leadership for an entire program rather than just on individual projects.

I am fortunate that I can choose to hire an IA on contract if I need to (and have the budget) for specific features or tasks, but I often do the work myself as well.  I think that the benefit of all of this for the company is that the primary business decision maker (myself) always has IA needs in the forefront and can speak to them in any circumstance vs. the limited pockets of time in a project a dedicated IA might otherwise be involved.  This allows for the IA to continually be 'living' rather than an artifact of particular projects.

samantha


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