Essential Techniques for Facilitating Requirements Meetings (Archive)

Learn how to productively facilitate the discovery and definition of your next project’s requirements. Learn everything you will need - to plan and conduct a requirements discovery session, and facilitate this business requirements session with your project stakeholders. In this webinar we will discuss the role of the session leader or facilitator in a requirements meeting. We will explain a simple repeatable process for eliciting business requirements. And, we will provide a variety of tips, techniques and questions you can ask during the session to keep the meeting on track – and moving toward a successful conclusion with well defined business requirements and satisfied session participants.

Key content covered in this training session:

• Business Use Cases and Business Requirements
• Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
• The Components of a Use Case
• The Different Forms of Use Cases
• The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
• Detailed Use Case Modeling
• Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
• Use Cases and Business Rules
• Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
• Next Steps - What do you do when you're done?

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to conduct efficient requirements meetings -- making the most productive use of everyone's time
• Learn how to organize the areas and topics to be analyzed - ensuring complete coverage and focused, productive discussions
• Learn what process to follow that will keep the meeting on track and the requirements sufficiently defined 
• Learn a variety of facilitation techniques and tips specific to requirements meetings
• Access setup and organization tools that accelerate your ability to apply these techniques
• Learn how to successfully elicit requirements even if you are not personally a business area or application subject matter expert.

What Participants Will Receive:

• DOWNLOADABLE Presentation/Workbook
• SUCCESS BUILDER CHECKLISTS
• QUICK REFERENCE SHEET
• TEMPLATES:  Sample Invitation and Agenda Templates that you can use to organize your next sessions. 
• PERSONALIZED CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION
• SESSION ARCHIVE – View it again – review the key points – refresh on techniques just before you use them.