I suggest coming up some sort of fun exercise which introduces your points as an ice breaker. Then, go into your points. And, expect that you'll need to periodically remind people what you can do for them. In the end, you'll probably gain more traction by showing your value on a few early projects and gaining converts one at a time.
We were asked to do something similar for a group of managers and architects. After some discussion, we came up with an hour long exercise where the product managers, program managers, and architects were divided into groups. Each group was to build the same Lego set as a project, but the exercise was such that each group "involved" our usability/design group differently over the course of the "project". One group, representing full involvement, got documents representing the results of contextual inquiry, personas, concept sketches, wireframes, detailed interaction design, and usability testing. Another group, representing minimal late involvement, got only artifacts representing concept sketches, some basic requirements, and late usability testing. The other two groups got artifacts representing involvement that fell in between the first two. The exercise was fun for almost all the participants and served as a good introduction (which we followed up with a more standard presentation). Ron ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
