In project management terms, the Information Futures Commission achieved sign-off last month.
The Commission delivered three key documents to the University community:
Final Report of the Steering Committee, describing the consultation process, summarising what we learned, and analysing the major areas of contention
Melbourne’s Scholarly Information Future: a ten-year strategy (”Zis iss ze big vun,” as Otto von [...]
Now in its third fabulous year, the Oz-IA conference is a weekend of nerdy fun — the perfect place to meet information architects, if that’s the sort of thing you enjoy.
This September I will be presenting a short (30 minute) session at Oz-IA, a case study based on the Information Futures Commission.
Session title: “Developing a [...]
In about six weeks the Information Futures Commission will pack its bags, fold its tents and slink quietly into the night.
In our diamond-shaped process diagram, we are accelerating towards the pointy bit.
Next time I use this shape to represent a project process, I try to show that the rate of activity increases as you move [...]
M’colleague Michael asked this week whether the Information Futures Commission has identified any recent-ish equivalents to itself at other universities.
A related question has come up several times in the last couple of months. When we ask a senior stakeholder for an opinion about what issues the Commission should tackle, the response is often,”Well, what are [...]
The project I’m working on has been running for 2.5 months now, and we have reached an important milestone.Inspired by one of Scott Berkun’s diagrams, last week the team noodled out a diagram showing our consultation process and where it’s leading. (Click the image below to see a larger version, or keep reading for a [...]
