Overview: 

In this three (3) day workshop course you learn from the experts, through examples, hands-on exercises and role-playing exactly how to manage and conduct a Requirements Discovery Session. You have the opportunity to apply and practice the process, the tools and the techniques learned in the “Specifying Client Requirements”course. Mastering the process presented in SCR is required for hosting and managing a successful requirements session.

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Course Content:

• Facilitation Overview
  Facilitation Skill Development
  What is an Effective Facilitator
  Different Types of Sessions

• Preparing To Facilitate A Session
  Meet with your Client
  Meet with your Project Team
  Schedule the Session
  Arrange the Room
  Be Grounded in the Process
  Practice

• Facilitating A Session
  Before the Meeting
  Opening the Meeting
  Conducting the Meeting
  After the Meeting
  Practice Facilitating a Scoping meeting
  Practice Facilitating a Review meeting

• Requirements Planning Sessions
  Scoping Meetings
  Using Project/Session Objectives
  Using Context Diagramming
  Using High-Level Scenarios
  Creating Your Requirements Work List
  Practice

• Eliciting the Business Requirements
  Requirements Discovery Sessions
  Specifying the Activities
  Using Use-Case and other Process Modeling techniques
  Discovering the Information Requirements
  Practice

• Steps To Success
  Seven Factors to Successful Facilitation
  The ‘Top 10’ to Ensure Success

Learning Objectives:

• Facilitate a meeting to discover and describe use cases, process discussions, business rules and data requirements

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