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Personal
The personal design pattern demonstrates the use of a matrix design,
but it is oriented toward providing views into the workplace from dashboards
that are unique to an individual. The difference is that the dashboard or view
is completely different for each user. Unlike a classic database application
where all users see relatively the same information with the same functionality,
this design takes the workplace to a two-level environment:
- One level is the general system of work for everyone
- The top level provides unique views for users
The key to personal productivity is for the individual to have the
information and tools at their fingertips, organized in a way that is most
useful for them. In a modular environment, you can optimize the productivity of
the individual without sacrificing the team, group, and organizational
productivity, which requires structure and control. In the diagram below, notice
the concept of filtering out items that are not relevant to the user in context.
In other words, all information is filtered out except “my” items.
HR Administrator Dashboard
This dashboard is specific to the HR Administrator. It has
been designed to serve the needs of this person. It draws on information
from across the HR department and from across the organization. For
instance, the Performance Review process is actually a distributed process where
the information resides in each department. But, the HR Administrator can
see this information in their dashboard.
An important element of this solution is the ability for the
dashboard to cut across the barriers of separate server farms. This HR
Administrator is concerned about the privacy of HR information and its ability
to meet their records compliance standards. Thus, the final documents are
actually stored on a separate, dedicated server. As shown below within
this personal dashboard they are able to see the HR documents for each employee.
It is important to note that this capability is modular also and is placed
within the dashboard site. Thus, only the HR Administrator can see the
information because of the use of ACLs to secure access to the site itself.
Click here to access the HR Documents of the HR Administrator
dashboard.
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