How to Prepare and Facilitate Productive JAD-r Sessions
| Classroom | Aug 11 - 12, 2009 | San Francisco, CA | $1095 | Register |
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JAD (Joint Application Development or Design) is not a new concept. It is, however, still one of the best alternatives to technology dictating what the business community needs and wants. Like any other approach offering significant advantages, there is an associated price. Delivering productive JAD sessions and valuable results is critically dependent on the Facilitation Team.
This scenario-based seminar presents tools, techniques and insights that are based on the collective experiences of many successful JAD facilitation teams. These concepts can serve as a basis for your on-going efforts to improve a process in dire need of improvement. They can drastically shorten the time to complete the crucial early project phases while dramatically increasing the quality of the resulting deliverables.
- Select from six types of requirements gathering workshop sessions
- Use a methodology to prepare an requirements gathering workshop
- Use a methodology to prepare an accelerated session
- Identify project types that are suitable JAR and JAD candidates
- Organize and schedule a business requirements gathering workshop
- Adapt a check-list of pre-meeting activities
- Use standard requirements gathering questionnaires to structure the meeting
- Prepare the participants for the workshop using effective email communication methods
- Organize and analyze the visible results of the workshop
- Use open issue, question, and post-session task lists to maintain momentum in the meeting
- Determine the usability of profiling tools for enhancing communication
- Assess their own strengths and challenges as facilitators and session analysts
- Recognize other people’s preferred mode of communication
- Develop contingency plans for dealing with unpleasant situations
- Evaluate a workshop to improve the process
- Evaluate a session to improve the process
- Apply 5 methods for maintaining the project momentum after the JAR/JAD
- Use open issue, question, and post-session task lists
3 days
Business Analysts
Business Managers
Project Managers
Requirements Engineers
Systems Analysts
Systems Designers
End Users who are interested in expediting the process of defining, developing and delivering high-quality information technology solutions
How to Elicit (Gather), Write, and Analyze Business Requirements
How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Processes
How to Define and Document Use Cases
or equivalent training (or experience)
How to Elicit (Gather), Write, and Analyze Business Requirements
How to Define and Document Use Cases
Our instructors have extensive experience in applying these techniques on projects with business experts from a wide variety of fields.
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