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Techniques
Workshops
possible to maintain and enhance the solution even if the vendor's situation
changes radically.
10.49.4 Usage Considerations
.1 Strengths
• Increases the chances of the organization to develop a productive and fair
relationship with a suitable and reliable vendor, and to improve long-term
satisfaction with the decision.
.2 Limitations
• May be consuming in regards to time and resources.
10.50 Workshops
10.50.1 Purpose
10.50.2 Description
• Does not prevent risk of failure as the partnership evolves.
• Subjectivity may bias the evaluation outcome.
Workshops bring stakeholders together in order to collaborate on achieving a
predefined goal.
A workshop is a focused event attended by key stakeholders and subject matter
experts (SMEs) for a concentrated period of time. A workshop may be held for
different purposes including planning, analysis, design, scoping, requirements
elicitation, modelling, or any combination of these. A workshop may be used to
generate ideas for new features or products, to reach consensus on a topic, or to
review requirements or designs.
Workshops generally include:
• a representative group of stakeholders,
• a defined goal,
• interactive and collaborative work,
• a defined work product, and
• a facilitator.
Workshops can promote trust, mutual understanding, and strong communication
among the stakeholders and produce deliverables that structure and guide future
work efforts.
The workshop is ideally facilitated by an experienced, neutral facilitator; however,
a team member may also serve as the facilitator. A scribe documents the decisions
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