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Essential Techniques for Facilitating Requirements Meetings

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 the webinar:

  • The role of a facilitator
  • Top 10 success factors for requirements facilitation Facilitation fundamentals
  • Necessary preparation steps for a requirements meeting
  • Steps to follow in the session - the main agenda items
  • Using use-case and other modeling techniques
  • Key questions to ask during a session Critical and immediate next steps following your meeting

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.
Get Specific Answers to:
  • How do I get the right stakeholders into a requirements meeting?
  • What questions do I ask to ensure I'm getting to the real requirements?
  • How do I keep group discussion on track?
  • How do I deal with difficult participants?
Testimonials

"Excellent information together with your delivery. I truly enjoyed being able to watch your webinar at my desk while at the same time earning PDUs." Joan C

"I continue to be impressed with your training. It fits my budget, helps me grow professionally and meets my need for collecting those all-important PDUs!"
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Earn PDUs and CDUs
PMI PDUs: Yes: 2 PMI PDUs
CDUs: Yes 2 CDUs (*see below)

* The content of the course are aligned with the BABOK®, this 2 hr sessions qualifies for 2 CDU's towards CBAP® recertification.

Diversified Business Communications is a PMI Registered Education Provider (REP). Our REP ID is 1811.
Presenter Details
Speaker: Keith Ellis, Vice President, IAG and Author of The Business Analysis Benchmark

Keith Ellis is the Vice President, Marketing at IAG Consulting where he leads the marketing and strategic alliances efforts of this global leader in business requirements discovery and management. Keith is a veteran of the technology services business and founder of the business analysis company Digital Mosaic which was sold to IAG in 2007. Keith is the author of IAG’s Business Analysis Benchmark – the definitive source of data on the impact of business requirements on technology projects.

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