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• Practical
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Facilitating IT Sessions

Make Your IT Sessions More Focused and Productive!

Designing great systems require input from all the key players. Facilitated sessions are a tremendous tool for building consensus around system requirements and design. Building on concepts introduced in The Effective Facilitator, Facilitating IT Sessions offers practice sessions and detailed guides for facilitating requirements gathering, project planning and other JAD-type sessions.

• Learn detailed strategies for facilitating:
• Information needs analysis
• Project planning
• Process modeling
• Data modeling
• Defining requirements
• Design review
• Systems acceptance
• Maintenance review

Why it Works

This course is specifically geared toward the needs of IT professionals and offers opportunities to explore real industry relevant scenarios in a PDI (practical, dynamic and interactive) forum. You'll get practical step by step direction relevant to your needs, dynamic instruction from carefully selected energetic facilitators with IT experience, and interactive discussion to maximize integration of the material.

Learn How To

Improve the productivity of technology relevant processes with a structured methodology for generating systems related results. Incorporate group techniques for questioning, guiding users to solutions, and gaining commitment. Obtain detailed guides for facilitating IT sessions, needs analysis, process improvement, requirements gathering and more!

• Design structured processes to achieve desired goal
• Effectively gather client requirements incorporating input from all key players
• Perform accurate information needs analysis
• Understand how facilitated sessions fit into the overall systems development life cycle
• Gain strategies and techniques for developing key deliverables specific to systems development
• Identify objectives and construct focused agendas

Ideal For

Leaders or facilitators in a technical arena who seek to improve their leadership of groups in IT-relevant activities: Directors, Technical Managers, Systems Planners, Project Leaders, JAD Facilitators and Systems Analysts.

Duration

One day

Prerequisite

The Effective Facilitator

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