How to Plan and Prepare a Requirements JAD

Workshop: How to Prepare and Facilitate a Successful JAD Session

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Overview

Of all of the things that have to go right for a requirements gathering session to be successful (i.e., deliver the right requirements easily), planning and preparation are the most critical. Done poorly or not at all, they can doom the best facilitator. Done properly, they can make a mediocre facilitator shine. Paying attention to these details before the workshop pays huge dividends during and after the workshop for all involved parties.

Outline

  • Phases of a JAD
  • The Pre-Session
  • Project Evaluation
  • Application Audience
  • Project Profile
  • Stakeholder Identification
  • Participant Selection
  • Deliverables of a JAD
  • Identified JAD Deliverables
  • Time Versus Depth
  • Scheduling Techniques
  • Zipper Scheduling
  • Scheduling Split Sessions
  • Preliminary Agenda
  • Activity Dependencies
  • Sample Agenda
  • Training and Pre-work


Objectives
  • Identify project types that are suitable JAD candidates
  • Discuss the importance and critical success nature of pre-sessions
  • Organize and schedule an accelerated session
  • Adapt a check-list of pre-session activities
  • Plan and prepare a creative cross-functional group consensus-building process
  • List 3 methods for determining who to invite to a JAR/JAD session

 

Our vision of a virtual workshop is web-based training that is highly interactive. We absolutely avoid the death by page-turning and the passive learning approach that is highly prevalent in most web-based training.

3.5 hours

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