allocating work: providing tools for academics
DESCRIPTION
Slides for a talk on "Allocating Work: Providing Tools for Academics"given by Hiten Vaghmaria, University of Westminster at the IWMW 2-14 event held at Northumbria University of 16-18 July 2014. See http://iwmw.org/iwmw2014/talks/allocating-work-providing-tools-for-academics/TRANSCRIPT
ALLOCATING WORK
PROVIDING TOOLS FOR ACADEMICS
Hiten Vaghmaria
Head of Digital Development Services
18 July 2014
01 INTRODUCTION
NGINX
175 YEARS
ABOUT ME
DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Internet & Educational Technology
Comms
Design
Content
Dev Analysts
Ed Tech
Multimedia
INTRODUCTION
01 About Me
02 The Work Allocation Process
03 What Westminster has done
04 About Work Modeller
05 What next?
06 Questions
02 ALLOCATING WORK
ALLOCATING WORK
Staff
Teaching
Prep
Assess
Admin
Research
ALLOCATING WORK
Objectives
Allocate
Draft Timetable
Final Timetable
Reporting
ALLOCATING WORK
Not Micro Managing – Macro View
Managed Time
Planning / Reporting Tool
WHY?
03 WHAT WE DID
SPREADSHEETS
REALLY
FREAKIN’
COMPLICATED
SPREADSHEETS
BROKEN
SPREADSHEETS
“CAN
YOU FIX IT
PLEASE?”
“PUT IT
ON THE
WEB”
WHAT
ABOUT
YOU?
IMPLEMENTING WAM
Governance
Unions
Pilot
Rollout
04 WORK MODELLER
ALLOCATING WORK
Built over 8 months
Analyst
2x Developer
1x Database
1x Designer
Agile Scrum / Pivotal Tracker
DESIGN PROCESS
User-Centred
Interviews and Ethnographic Studies
Involved users in sprint reviews
Iterated with pilot group
DASHBOARD
STAFF
STAFF VIEW
MODULE VIEW
EDITING
05 NEXT STEPS
NEXT STEPS
Funded for 2 years
Save academics time
Model different scenarios
Automate Reporting (TrAC)
Work with other institutions
QUESTIONS
Hiten Vaghmaria
Head of Digital Development Services
Suvi Streatfield
Digital Content Manager