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project notes - Enterprise Search, Consulting & Specification (D)

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• The Enterprise Search is an exciting activity for us, information architects. I realize that this subject (keyword: SEO) as part of my projects gets a now increasingly important role. And I'm looking forward to exactly these challenges.
Some time ago I was involved in a classic "search & findability" project from which I could take some important lessons for future projects.
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The retrieval of information in the kernel was this massive project, in To create a specification as the intermediate result before the conversion was. I supported the project in the counseling, the client presentation, with workshops, through specification.

advice, specification During the initial customer consultations, I realized that the search is a challenge to the exchange between the business scope, the user requirements and provide the later system requirements would be. This complexity was to communicate as early as crucial to project success. (1) The customer wants a search à la Google (the "tip of the iceberg" so), (2) the users need an intuitive Tour of their entire search process, not least, (3) the requirements for each system critical of what can ultimately be implemented under the project (budget). An abstract concept model helped us to make the concept of search communicable and tangible. It was important for example to show the importance of the contribution transparent. It is precisely in this part of the concept, the major functionalities are integrated, which later contribute to the retrieval of information objects (findability). After we successfully supported that it can commiter all stakeholders, we now have a good sense of detailed Specified level.

We specified the requirements for the search in connection with the following methods / deliverables in a specification:
Concept Model

wireframes (start search, search results, contribution, ...)
use cases

Taxonomy

Meta Schema

data model

learning
- Choosing the right communication is very critical to project success: Since we were dealing here with the classical "iceberg" principle (ie customer wants, " implementation of a search field with all kinds of search qualities "), it was of paramount importance, that we the customers everything behind it, the decisive factors for the later success of the project have had. I decided to create a concept model, which communicates in a simple, abstract and narrative way. However, this need not be in every project the appropriate communication method.
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  - User Requirements: The tend to go beyond the project scope if they are fully taken into account in a single project. It is therefore advisable to separate them into functional and future requirements.
• - Search strategy: Since search should generally run through a long-term search optimization, it makes much sense to develop a strategy for this model and this into account in the project versions or iterative project processes.
• I am engaged just a deeper SEO issue and will therefore soon tie again from this point at ...
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  interests me: What do you
are connecting with the topic of Enterprise Search?