How to Prepare and Facilitate a Successful JAD Session

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Overview

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.

Objectives
  • Explain the difference between JAD, JAR and other approaches
  • Discuss the need for and advantages of accelerating early project phases
  • Recognize the major risks of accelerating the system development process
  • Use a methodology to prepare an accelerated session
  • Identify project types that are suitable JAR and JAD candidates
  • Discuss the importance and critical success nature of pre-sessions
  • Organize and schedule JAR or JAD session
  • Adapt a check-list of pre-JAD activities
  • Plan and prepare a creative cross-functional group consensus-building process
  • Generate and sustain a productive JAD session environment
  • List the criteria of effective work documents to support the JAD session participants
  • Organize and analyze the visible results of the JAD
  • 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
  • Use open issue, question, and post-session task lists
  • Evaluate a session to improve the process
  • List 5 methods for maintaining the project momentum after the JAR/JAD

ILT: 3 days
Virtual: 3 Mods

Target Audience

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

Pre-requisites

How to Gather, Analyze, and Define Business System Requirements

How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Processes

How to Discover and Develop Use Cases

or equivalent training (or experience)

Expansions

How to Gather, Analyze, and Define Business System Requirements

How to Discover and Develop Use Cases

Instructors

Our instructors have extensive experience in applying these techniques on projects with business experts from a wide variety of fields.