Setting the general framework
- Learning concepts and definitions.
- Knowing different types of specifications.
Storyboarding workshops
Overview of the common-thread case and additional cases. The participants identify cases familiar to themselves.
Detecting challenges and stakeholders
- Understanding the demand, objectives, and challenges
- Detecting technical, financial, and time constraints.
- Identifying stakeholders and interactors.
Hands-on work
Creating a demand summary memo for the common-thread case.
Implement an effective methodology
- Discerning and eliciting the actual needs.
- Performing a functional analysis of the needs: Use functions and corresponding requirements.
- Identifying, formalizing, and ranking the functions and technical requirements needed.
Hands-on work
Clarifying, analyzing, and rephrasing expressed or implicit needs. Identifying functions and requirements in the context of the common-thread case and ranking them.
Writing the functional specifications
- Assembling the various components to create a set of functional specifications.
- Examining and comparing different specifications to learn their common practices.
Hands-on work
Applying notions and practices learned to the participants’ own settings.
Drafting the specifications for overseeing the execution
- Identifying and formalizing the requirements to be met for executing the project.
- Ensuring delivery in accordance with the functional specifications.
- Finding the right level to maintain control over execution.
- Being careful not to encroach on the role of the executors/project managers.
Hands-on work
Expressing certain requirements specific to overseeing execution in the context of the common-thread case.
Mastering the use of specifications
- Centering your RFPs on the specifications.
- Supporting changes in the specification's lifecycle.
Hands-on work
Eliciting strengths and things to watch for when implementing the methods presented.
Multiple-choice quiz on what was learned.
2d
- 14h00 
