MCS 535 – Human Computer Interaction 1st sem 2021-2022

ASSIGNMENT #10
TOPIC: Socio-organizational issues and stakeholder requirements
NAME: Rey Martin Esperida COURSE YR. & SEC: MSCS 2A

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Questions:
1. Let’s say your company want to implement an Information System project in which the employees and upper
management are hesitant to adopt. How are you going to convince them that indeed the project is beneficial for
both employees and company? (10pts).

-First, I must need to show them the sequence of the system and also its interface if needed. For them to have a
knowledge or idea on the system they want to implement. And give them the flow of the diagrams for them to
consolidate with one another on how the flow of the system will be. Like these following objectives:

• Seek out and identify the details

• Specify requirements
• Decide which requirements are most important
• Create a dialog showing how the user interacts with the existing system
• Ask users to critique the list of requirements that have been developed

2. You are designing a new system to help people manage their ‘to do’ lists (hypothetical only). Use the contextual
inquiry approach to interview a colleague to see how they make use of such lists. Make sure you interview them
in context – in their study or workplace for example. Produce sequence, flow, artifact, cultural and physical
models of the activity. Interview at least 3 colleagues of your colleagues. – 20 pts.

• GIVE IT TIME . . .
A great to-do list, after all, is worthless if you don’t manage your time well. “One of my
workflow secrets is setting time limits,” Yunha Kim, CEO of meditation app Simple Habit,
says. “At a startup like ours, we always have never-ending lists of to-dos, and it’s often just
not feasible to fully finish a task in one sitting.”
In other words, be patient. Figuring out a to-do list system that works for you is a skill like
any other–one that even the most productive leaders need to spend time honing. “Managing a
day-to-day workflow and to-do lists takes months and years to become good at as a business
leader,” points out Riana Lynn, CEO of the food-sourcing software company FoodTrace.
MCS 535 – Human Computer Interaction 1st sem 2021-2022
ASSIGNMENT #10
TOPIC: Socio-organizational issues and stakeholder requirements
NAME: Rey Martin Esperida COURSE YR. & SEC: MSCS 2A

• DELEGATE WHAT YOU CAN

Some execs recruit digital aid in the form of virtual assistants. Even Tannen, who tries to rely
on sheer mind power to keep his to-dos in order, outsources some of it to an AI helper. “Clara
is like my personal Pepper Potts, and she handles the back and forth of scheduling,” he says
(referring, respectively, to the real-world, email-based AI assistant and the fictional
assistant of Tony Stark in Iron Man, who later becomes CEO of Stark Industries). Blumenthal
and Teran, on the other hand, have human assistants who pitch in with scheduling and time-
management help. “The day I relinquished control of my calendar to my assistant was the day
I recaptured 40% of my time back,” Blumenthal says.

• PUT THE SPILLOVER ON PAPER

But for many CEOs, simplicity is key–which might explain why, when faced with a glut of
task-management apps, some fall back on analog lists and planners. Siroya says she uses the
Notes app to whip up quick lists, and files away longer-term tasks in Google Docs. Still, like
Blumenthal and Tannen, she prefers to commit the rest of it to paper. “I’ve figured out how to
make all these digital systems work for me, but I have to admit, at the end of the day, a list on
paper still feels the most useful,” Siroya says.
Even PGi’s Ted Schrafft maintains a handwritten list of daily to-dos, despite being the CEO
of a collaboration software company, while Cherae Robinson, CEO of travel startup
Tastemakers Africa, uses a physical planner to tackle short-term tasks. Teran commits some
of his workday’s top priorities to print as well. “I keep a notebook with me at all times to log
items that require follow-up,” he says, adding that he has a second notebook for recording
“big ideas that I want to revisit with more space to think.”