This week has been another one split between two end-user computing projects – one at the strategy\/business case stage and another that’s slowly rolling out and proving that the main constraint on any project is the business’s\u00a0ability to cope with the change.<\/p>\n
I can’t say it’s all enjoyable at the moment – indeed I had to apply a great deal of restraint not to respond to lengthy email threads that asked “why aren’t we doing it this way”… but the inefficiencies of email are another subject, for another day.<\/p>\n
So, instead of a recap of the week’s activities, I’ll focus on some experiences I’ve had recently with “anonymous” surveys. I’m generally quite cynical of these because if I have to log on to the platform to provide a response then it’s not truly anonymous – a point I highlighted to my colleagues in HR who ask a weekly “pulse” question. “It’s not on your record”, I was told – yet progress is logged against me (tasks due, tasks completed, etc.) and only accessible when I’m logged in to the HR system. It’s the same for SharePoint surveys – if I need to use my Active Directory credentials, then it’s not anonymous.<\/p>\n
I’m approaching my third anniversary at risual and I picked up an idea for soliciting feedback (for my annual review) from colleagues, partners and customers from\u00a0my colleague James Connolly, who has been using a survey tool for a couple of years now. Rather than use one of the tools on the wider Internet, like Survey Monkey\u00a0or TypePad, I decided to try Microsoft Forms<\/a> – which is a newish Office 365 capability. It was really simple to create a form (and to make it anonymous, once I worked out how<\/a>) but what I’ve been most impressed with is the reporting, with the ability to export all responses to Excel for analysis, or to view either an aggregated view of responses or the detail on each individual response within Microsoft Forms.<\/p>\n I created an anonymous survey last night using #MicrosoftForms<\/a> (to get feedback for my annual review). Really simple to set up, great reporting and good to use something that’s already available inside our @Office365<\/a> subscription, instead of Survey Monkey, etc.<\/p>\n \u2014 Mark Wilson ???? (@markwilsonit) April 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n