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    Stakeholder Management: Communication Through the Requirements Process

    Discover data collection methods for stakeholders and how to better manage group dynamics and roles

    Why do you think the requirements analysis process is so difficult? During this course, you’ll learn the techniques needed to organize and run information-gathering events. Use tools to quickly get to consensus and achieve stakeholder alignment, drive outcomes from interviews and meetings, and use graphic decision-making tools during group-facilitated sessions. Learn to ask questions like a consultant and tap into the hidden needs that stakeholders have but may be unable to effectively communicate. Articulate to executives the benefits the project has to the organization and its key stakeholders.

    With the powerful knowledge gained during this course, you will be able to:

    • Conduct effective stakeholder interviews using techniques that elicit the real problem they want addressed
    • Understand segmentation strategies for projects with competing stakeholder needs
    • Use intervention techniques to manage group dynamics
    • Develop techniques to document requirements in standardized format
    • Facilitate effective requirements elicitation meetings with stakeholders
    • Practice with tools used during group consensus making and problem solving
    • Develop project justifications that align with the organization’s strategy
    • Develop political savvy in stakeholder management
    • Manage competing interests and goals among stakeholders while avoiding conflict of interest between stakeholders
    • Help stakeholders find and support “common ground requirements”

    Who should attend?

    This course is helpful for both individuals and teams. Teams benefit from practicing together with the tools and techniques.

    • Software developers
    • New product developers/managers
    • Process improvement individuals
    • Project managers

    Agenda

    Day 1

    • Identification, segmentation, and analysis of stakeholders
    • Managing competing interests and political issues that stakeholders bring
    • Team dynamics
    • Meeting dynamics
    • Group dynamics learning lab

    Day 2

    • Requirements elicitation
    • Documenting, prioritizing, and categorizing requirements
    • Dealing with common roadblocks or pitfalls that occur during the requirements process
    • Case analysis of stakeholder management

    Scott Converse is the director of project management and process improvement programs for the Wisconsin School of Business. He has developed courses for and has expertise in the areas of project management, portfolio management, technology project implementation, process improvement, Six Sigma, business statistics, data analysis, and data mining.