Re: [Users] Project personas
Thanks Noam!
On 02/21/2013 01:52 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> After an interesting presentation by Dave Neary today we started
> thinking about the persona[*] of the ovirt project users
> We focused on the users of the new coming feature of UI plugins.
> And this was our vision of an active user:
>
> Name: Dan
> Age: 25
> Job position: an integrator at a medium sized service company
> Technical level: computer savvy person with interest in gadgets and
> innovations.
> Has about two years of java coding experience, but coding may not
> be his main focus at work.
> Reason for using the UI Plugins feature: After getting requests from
> his costumers for simple log monitoring feature, the integration
> team leader have decided that implementing this as a Plugin for
> ovirt
> would offer a more centralised solution and has assigned dan to
> start getting familiar with it and give him a time estimation for
> completion.
Interesting that this came the same week as the Nagios plug-in was
announced on the list ;-)
My follow-on questions: what does Dan need from the oVirt project?
Tutorials and documentation on writing a plug-in, I imagine, perhaps a
plug-in template or example he can read, understand and modify to fit
his needs. Does he need/want a way to distribute, promote, update, and
manage his plug-in through oVirt.org? Perhaps he'd like users to be able
to tell him whether they like it, ask him questions?
> By creating a more accurate persona(s) of the user base we could
more
> easily understand the needs of the users and steer the project in
> more productive and helpful ways for the people that really need it.
> It would be very interesting to see what others think this "person"
> is like and what does he need.
> so who do you feel is the likely user?
I think that we definitely have a number of types of UI plug-in
developer - perhaps another one might be a start-up who wants to promote
their product by integrating into oVirt? Or perhaps someone like NetApp
or HP, a partner working ot integrate their hardware solutions?
It would be really interesting if someone had thought about and put
together user profiles or personas for people like that ;-)
(for those watching at home, I split our group into smaller groups, and
indeed there were two groups who came up with profiles like those above).
Thanks also Doron for the vote of confidence!
Regards,
Dave.
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