1. CS 519: Personas Project, Team Roles/Skills 1

2. Announcements Upcoming due dates/events: See schedule. 2

3. Project Choosing team members by skill: Leadership/organization/coordination skills Writing/presentation/communication skills Access to: –a multi-person software team that is open to trying out the persona –that software (at least from a user's perspective) –project data and/or very solid knowledge of literature about the population it serves (ideally) –the boss of the software team, and the boss is open to trying out the persona you build (ideally) 3

4. Project Roles/Skills The team: Risk management: responsibility is yours. Honoring your commitments. Communicating with your team members when things aren’t going well. Continuous process improvement. What’s not working (email’d communications? scheduling? lack of lead time?) 4

5. Project Roles/Skills (cont.) The lead: –Special responsibilities: Keep everything organized/coordinated. Lead in process improvement. The buck stops here! –(But then you can delegate.) –Leadership skills a must! –It helps if the lead or access person really cares (passion/ownership feeling) about the project. 5

6. Project Roles/Skills (cont.) The “Writing/Presentations” person –Special responsibilities: Make sure the oral and written presentations are done clearly, hang together logically to make the case, etc. –Do you like to write/speak? eg: Do you get good grades in writing classes? eg: Do you enjoy debating? eg: Do you communicate well (in whatever your native language is)? 6

7. Project Roles/Skills (cont.) The “access” person –Special responsibilities: Provide access to team, their software Be able to convince/help the team use your persona on their software Access to data, literature, boss a huge plus –It helps if the lead or access person really cares (passion/ownership feeling) about the project. 7

8. Project Roles/Skills (cont.) The above are “special responsibilities”, not “sole responsibilities” Everyone does everything! –But the special roles make sure that the important attributes are always being watched for. 8

9. Activity Skills inventory activity here. 9