2. Team Members Meeting Times : Tuesdays 7pm Kate Gory Researcher Lauren Johnson Project Manager Munib Rizvi Webmaster Olufadekemi Teriba Presentation Lead
14. Why Ideation is Needed Uncovers/discovers new high-potential products, markets, needs, and features. Provides a mechanism for the discussion and building of all known possibilities Businesses Students Individuals
48. Use Case #1 Background Kari Peters - Program Manager, Verity Inc. Verity Inc. is an international financial services firm maintaining average revenue over the past 3 years of 1 billion US dollars. Given their strong revenues and desire for control, Verity has decided to become its own clearing agent for all of its business. Kari wants a tool that will allow for collaboration among project targets in determining departmental requirements as well as allowing the project managers to collaborate with the program manager and identify interdependencies of the various projects. The tool will be used to allow the approximately 100 operational employees of each functional area to submit, view, associate/link and rank requirements for the project/program. Since some operational areas will be distributed geographically, the tool will also ideally integrate with other collaboration tools such as instant messenger, video conference calls and emails.
49. Use Case #1 Requirements & Affordances Must Haves: Ability to document the requirements and desired software abilities of each department. Ability to produce task lists and mind maps Ability to save and retrieve mind-maps and task lists Ability to organize and prioritize ideas Ability to restrict user access Ability to organize information by project and department Nice To Haves: Integration with MS Outlook Integration with other collaborative technologies such as Instant Messenger and Video Conferencing
50. Use Case #1 Tool Selection Mindjet Catalyst : https://catalyst.mindjet.com/?lang=en Paid collaboration tool Includes the MindJet MindManager mind mapping software. $200 per user per year but the firm will save on their current video conferencing cost. No contract term is required, so Verity can purchase the software for the duration of the project and then only retain the licenses for the PMO afterwards. Catalyst was the ideal tool for Verity because it included full integration with Microsoft Outlook and Office. It also has the ability organize and prioritize ideas, group maps into workspaces by department, restrict user access, and easily document the requirements of each department and then use the software to track the duration, priority, resource assignment and status of each task.
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52. Nick manages a 30 person international project team that consists of software developers, project managers, and analysts from the US, Ireland, and India.
53. All team members have regular access to the internet as well as tools used to conduct international conference calls but Nick is finding it difficult to work collaboratively.
63. Other tools considered included Buzan's iMind Map, Mapmyself (Mapul), and Mind Genius. Of the three Mind Genius offered the best options but it was among the most expensive and therefore was not selected but should be considered as an option in the future.
