COURSE 2300 | 2-DAY SESSION
Designing and Facilitating JAD Workshops

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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
  

ASPE has been reviewed and approved as a CPE training provider for the National Assoication of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). 12 CPEs are awarded upon full completion of Designing and Facilitating JAD Workshops.