Designing and Facilitating JAD Workshops
2-DAY SESSION
A comprehensive hands-on guide to conducting JAD/group sessions that effectively and rapidly elicit real-world requirements
JAD Workshops significantly reduce your project scope, decrease your timeframe, and result in measurable overall savings. This course gives you hands-on experience planning and conducting JAD Workshops: Learn powerful techniques to quickly mine the collective knowledge of your Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and get the tools to put these elicitation methods to work immediately.
Learn how to:
- Use facilitative skills to effectively mine group knowledge
- Brainstorm creatively to identify requirements
- Structure JAD Workshops for maximum productivity
- Acquire needed information, regardless of your systems development approach
- Obtain consensus and buy-in easily
- Build related components of the systems development lifecycle
- Clarify the scope before "scope creep" becomes an issue
- Deal with difficult participants
- Increase contribution by building a structured, project-oriented workshop atmosphere
- Significantly collapse calendar time by using facilitative approaches
Who should attend:
This course is valuable to all those interested in collapsing calendar time in developing requirements, other system-related topics, and learning powerful meeting facilitation skills. This class is for you if you are a…
- Business Systems Analyst
- Business Analyst
- Business Customer or Partner
- Systems Analyst
- Designer or Developer
- Project Manager or Team Leader
- IT Manager/Director