W2-120 - Facilitating a Requirements Discovery Session
Date: Tuesday, April 15 - 8:30am – 4:30pm
Description
How would you like to be able to facilitate your next project’s business requirements discovery session with confidence, while being seen as an "enabler" to the success of your next project? Would you also like to build a business "partnership" with your users and do it right from the start and be part of a core of "experts" to help on other projects? Then, this course is exactly the learning environment you’ll experience. Other facilitation courses teach you only the "soft skills" required to be an effective facilitator. Here you have the opportunity to learn about your own strengths and develop strategies to overcome potential weaknesses. Practice, practice and more practice. That’s what it takes to be really good. But you also need to be practicing the "right" things, guided by someone who is experienced. This is exactly the learning environment you’ll experience. In this one-day course you learn from the experts, through examples, hands-on workshops and role-plays exactly how to manage and conduct a Requirements Discovery Session. Here you get to apply all the tools & techniques of orchestrating a successful Facilitated Requirements Discovery Session. Now you can do it with confidence!
Learning Objectives
Identify clients’ business needs easily, without needing to be a subject matter expert
Conduct fast and efficient analysis; maximizing the limited time and resources of the company
Identify true user requirements versus nice-to-have solutions
Deal with managers and users in their terms, and complete a business requirement specification that’s ready for design, development or sourcing software
Skill Level: Intermediate |
Robert Stewart, BA, LLB,
The Information Architecture Group, Inc.
As a certified Requirements Architect and Instructor, Rob has been involved in the gathering of business and systems requirements for companies in industries from insurance, banking, telecommunication, education, entertainment, pharmaceutical, utilities, to government at the county, state and federal levels. Some of the specific projects that Rob has applied Best Business Requirements PracticesTM on include:
Consolidated Justice Information, Check Processing, e-Marketing, Work Management, Inventory Management, Billing, Dictionary Coding System, e-Commerce…and many more.
Rob is a member of IAG’s IBM Rational Practices Team, which works with organizations implementing the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to ensure their success when eliciting, organizing and documenting stakeholder requirements.
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