Engineering

This book contains an adoption toolkit, use cases, banners, a poster, and a flyer.

Webex success playbook for Engineering

So, you want to launch Webex to engineering?

Use this checklist and guide to get support from your leaders, create awareness, and stimulate demand. Your time is precious so you don’t have to do everything, just what you have time for that makes the biggest impact. Enlist the support of a co-worker to help you. Phase it out over several weeks, and the more time you devote, the more people will use Webex.

Engineering teams are changing

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40%

faster absorption rate of information on video means less time explaining ideas, and more time perfecting your designs.*

50%

of workers will be remote by 2020. Validate designs with a wider set of stakeholders with simple virtual collaboration.**

*Source: ZK Research, Unified Communications Survey
**Source: London Business School research

Adoption toolkit

What?

Has everyone got Webex?

How?

Ask your IT team to confirm everyone has a Webex account. Find out how new joiners get a Webex account and instructions on how to log in.

Effort?

1 hour

What?

Enlist the support of senior leaders.

How?

Write to senior leaders asking them if they can send an email to everyone announcing the launch of Webex. We’ve written an example to help you. Attach one or more of the use cases in this section that explains why it’s so useful.

Effort?

30 mins

What?

Need some guidance with Webex?

How?

Need help getting started? Use the best practices section of the playbook to get all the information you need. You can also use the Collaboration Help Portal to find more information, and there are lots of step-by-step guides for you to use too.

Effort?

10 mins

What?

Cook up a simple timing plan.

How?

Get some of your colleagues together and come up with a communications plan that describes when each promotion will go out and who does what. See Communications Planning for guidance.

Effort?

1 hour

What?

Show you care. Print a poster or flyer.

How?

Print the poster or flyers. Put the poster up in the office, the restroom, meeting rooms and the flyers on colleagues' desks. If you’ve got digital signage in your buildings use that as well.

Effort?

4 hours

What?

Share a snappy tagline using a banner ad – Make Webex appeal to your departments.

How?

Within the playbook, you will find posters and banners which target several departments. Find a space on your intranet to place a banner e.g. the HR section. You can also use it in emails and PowerPoint. Change the tagline to suit your organization’s personality and link it to a ‘how-to‘ guide.

Effort?

2 hours

What?

Circulate the engineering use cases.

How?

We’ve written three compelling use cases that show you how Webex solves your everyday challenges. Share them with all of your colleagues in engineering. You can email, print and showcase them on your intranet.

Effort?

30 mins

What?

Write an email for your senior leader to send to everyone in engineering.

How?

We’ve written an example. Just adapt it to your own culture and organization's personality.

Effort?

30 mins

What?

Set up your team with a Space in Webex.

How?

Create a Space in Webex but make sure you add a description for what the Space is to be used for. Give it a purpose, set the tone so everyone knows why they are there. Start your conversation today.

Effort?

30 mins

Example email copy

To senior leaders in engineering

Subject line:
Why we need to embrace Cisco Webex in engineering.
Can you help me promote it?

Our company invested in Webex, a simple modern messaging and video meeting solution for global workforces. We want to get as many of our people using it as possible. There are ways we can use it to collapse the distance between development teams and business stakeholders. I’ve attached a couple of examples.

We’re writing a launch plan and it would make all the difference if you could send an email that encourages everyone to use Webex. When we’re ready we’ll send you a draft copy for approval.

Thank you

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Example email copy

From senior leaders to everyone in engineering

Subject line:
We’ve got upgrades. Working better together with Cisco Webex.

Webex is a simple modern messaging and video meeting solution for global workforces. Our investment in Webex is motivated by the need to get closer to our customers and key stakeholders.

We can use it for scrums, ideation, real-time meetings, and as a forum for bringing together subject matter experts.

I encourage everyone to use it in their daily work. Looking forward to seeing us as early adopters and pioneers of a better way of working.

Enjoy!

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Webex promotion assets – engineering

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Engineering flyer

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Engineering use cases

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Going the extra mile

How can we help?

Our Collaboration Help Portal is where you will find quick help guides, step-by-step instructions and technical information. Use the search bar to find everything you need about Webex.

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