[FM Discuss] how to show off booki?

[adam]

ok, all sounds good. unless someone on the list picks this up before me,
i will get on to it at the end of next week...i'll ping u then off list

adam


On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 10:40 -0700, Adam Feuer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:28 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Can we take you up on your (extremely generous) offer to us use Mifos as
> > a case study and then we can se this as the first and as a template to
> > format others?
> 
> Adam,
> 
> Yes. Reply to me off list and we can work this out!
> 
> > If we did this would someone within Mifos write it or is it better that
> > a 'third party' compose it?
> 
> Best if someone from your organization (for instance, you or another
> interested person) does it. Usually you have to interview several key
> people - the people who used or "bought" (decided to use) the
> software, and the business people who derived the benefits. Then you
> take the info in the interviews and combine them into a single
> document.
> 
> I can introduce you to those people at Mifos.
> 
> What you are looking for is:
> 
> Context - what does the person or organization using your software do
> for business, to make this come alive. Sometimes you can also make
> this real by talking about real people.
> Problem - what is their pain or problem
> Solution - how did they use your software to solve the problem
> Results - what were the business results they got?
> 
> This document also outlines many of the questions that are good to
> answer in a case study:
> 
> http://www.chrisoleary.com/projects/TheParadoxOfPain/Documents/TheParadoxOfPain_SummarySheet.pdf
> 
> -adam