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    JAD: Creating a Functionality Matrix

    8 November, 2006 (09:54) | IT Management, Process Improvement | By: Scott Burkett

    As promised in my previous article on JAD Facilitation Basics, this article will focus on the steps needed to create a viable functionality matrix, which will serve to summarize and prioritize the functionality for a proposed software system. Thanks to the recent reader who reminded me that this post was long overdue!

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    JAD: Facilitation Workshop Basics

    13 March, 2006 (06:00) | IT Management, Process Improvement | By: Scott Burkett

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    As promised in my post on IT Facilitation Skills, this article will take a more “hands-on” look at conducting JAD workshop sessions. While there is no single “best” way to accomplish JAD objectives, I will try to present a format that has worked nicely for me in the past, in the hopes that it will give you some ideas as to how best to structure your own sessions.

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    JAD: Facilitation Skills

    6 March, 2006 (06:00) | IT Management, Podcasts, Process Improvement | By: Scott Burkett

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    As Napoleon Bonaparte once quipped, “there is somebody wiser than any of us, and that is all of us.” Gathering functional requirements is a fundamental part of any software development methodology, yet many IT leaders seem to avoid honing their facilitation skills, something I consider to be a critical tool in this process.

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