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Designing & Facilitating JAD Workshops

( Duration: 2 Days )

JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions are structured meetings of business and systems representatives for the purpose of defining requirements and deciding other aspects of proposed systems. Using a structured approach, visual aids, and language that is very much the customers', JAD Workshops extract high-quality requirements specifications in a compressed time frame. The participants are focused, the process is facilitated, and the result is greatly enhanced understanding for all those involved.

JAD Workshops significantly reduce your project scope, decrease your timeframe, and result in measurable overall savings. This Designing & Facilitating JAD Workshops training course provides hands-on experience for 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 for functional, non-functional requirements as well as use cases and Agile/Scrum user story workshops.

By attending Designing & Facilitating JAD Workshops workshop, delegates will learn to:

  • Effectively coordinate and organize meetings for maximum productivity.
  • Extract information in a variety of ways - brainstorming, categorization, prioritization, etc.
  • Apply the techniques to improve a variety of other types of meetings.
  • About different methods for prioritizing requirements in a group setting.
  • About the simple, mechanical techniques of capturing information easily and correctly.
  • Avoid pitfalls to ensure active participation of all parties in a session.
  • Appreciate the flexibility and usability of Post-It™ notes in solving problems.
  • Understand how to assist the business in relevant activities beyond requirements.
  • Keep energy and interest high during meetings that last several hours or days
  • About techniques for skillful facilitation.

The Designing & Facilitating JAD Workshops class is ideal for:

  • All those interested in collapsing calendar time in developing requirements, other system-related topics, and learning powerful meeting facilitation skills. This project management training class is for you if you are a…
    • Business Systems Analysts
    • Business Analysts
    • Systems Analysts
    • Designer or Developers
    • Project Manager or Team Leaders
    • IT Manager/Directors
    • Scrum Masters
    • Product Owners

COURSE AGENDA

1

Introduction to Facilitation

  • The importance of creating the climate
  • The difference between process and content
  • Facilitation skills vs. presentation skills
  • Active listening skills
  • Tools of the trade
  • Tricks of the trade
2

The Dynamics of JAD Workshops

  • People motivators
  • People principles
  • Problem people and how to deal with them
  • The group life cycle
3

Key Techniques: Brainstorming / Cardstorming / Creativity Techniques

  • Rules
  • Process
  • Creativity methods
  • Clarifying, combining, evaluating, categorizing
  • Prioritizing
  • Problem-solving
4

Preparing for the Workshop

  • Building the agenda
  • Integrating the tools
  • Considering the mechanics
  • Setting up the room
5

Facilitating the JAD Workshop – Demonstration and Class Exercises

  • Starting the Workshop
  • Identifying Business and Systems Roles
    • Identifying roles
    • Clarifying expectations
    • Comparing and resolving differences
  • Scope Identification
    • Brainstorming candidate items
    • Narrowing the scope
  • Identifying the Context and Actors
    • Identifying and documenting the components
    • Drawing the model
  • Chunking for Further Analysis (Functional Decomposition)
    • Identifying the functions
    • Defining the functions
    • Identifying the processes
    • Developing the data flows
  • Brainstorming Requirements
    • Identifying requirements by function
    • Listing, clarifying, combining, and prioritizing
    • Identifying requirements gaps
    • Identifying possible solutions
  • Identifying Business Objects, data, and relationships (Entity Relationship Diagram)
    • Identifying“things” – the entities/objects
    • Defining the entities/objects
    • Identifying relationships and drawing models
    • Identifying the attributes and data elements
    • UML and Use Cases
    • Creating use cases
  • Agile/Scrum Facilitated Workshops
    • Techniques for identifying the product backlog in Sprint Zero
    • Categorizing stories into Themes
    • Writing user stories and high level acceptance criteria Deriving requirements
    • User story prioritization via MoSCoW
    • Identifying Sprints and Releases
    • Grooming stories within Sprint backlogs with lower level user stories and/or detailed acceptance criteria
  • Planning for Success
    • Resolving overlapping roles and responsibilities
    • Identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks
    • Developing a high level plans
    • Developing detailed project plans/business analyst plans
    • Conducting lessons-learned sessions

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