Technology Definition Workshops
Technology is at its best when rightly aligned to business process and the people who execute those processes.
Our workshops help bridge the gap between business and technology, and bring cross-functional teams together to clearly define scope, business requirements, ;and user experience, which yields common understanding and accelerates the delivery cycle. Workshops improve readiness for testing and implementation activities, reducing rework and enabling smoother implementations.
Our Technology Definition Workshops can help you:
- Clearly define scope and features for technology build-out
- Map supporting technology to business processes for ongoing traceability
- Intentionally define business requirements, including roles engagement, user experience, and data access / usage
- Rethink alignment of processes, people and technology to business strategy
- Assessing work-in-progress during development / testing
- Assessing test readiness
- Ensuring implementation readiness, and post-implementation stabilization
Technology Definition Workshops | Typical Outputs | Description | Delivery Considerations |
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Scope and Features Workshop |
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This workshop enables teams to clearly define scope, and articulate features for supporting technology. Features are mapped to business processes, to begin traceability. Scope and process areas impacted help to identify the key stakeholders and subjectmatter-experts to be included in the nextsteps of technology definition. |
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Business Requirements Definition Workshop |
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Business Requirements definition is anchored clearly through the guided facilitation of all partners—Business, IT, subject matter experts, and often vendors and quality professionals. Requirements are prioritized to enable sizing that can explore multiple implementation options. As requirements details are explored, outputs are created that are jointly defined and owned by both Business and IT establishing broader understanding, and synchronized expectations. Jointly-defined requirements accelerate the back-end of the development cycle, eliminating re-work and setting the stage for successful testing and implementation. |
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Test Strategy and Planning Workshop |
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This workshop enables the team to clearly think through risks, testing approach, acceptance, and required data. The workshop also enables the team to clearly delineate roles for testing to ensure that perspectives from IT and Business acceptance are included. |
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Implementation Approach Workshop |
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This workshop enables the team to clearly think through implementation risks, approach, readiness, and adoption. The workshop also enables the team to delineate approach and process for communicating progress, and information necessary to ensure implementation readiness and adoption. |
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Work-in-Progress Reviews |
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Coordination of resources is easier in the Work-in-Progress Reviews bring key team members and stakeholders together to ensure that progress is visible, and people are on the same page regarding deliverables, timing, issues and next steps. |
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Test Readiness Workshop |
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Test readiness workshops ensure that all things are prepared for successful testing, that engagement is understood, and that escalation has been defined. |
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Implementation Readiness Workshop |
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It’s not over until it’s up, running and stabilized. Too often, teams work to unreasonable implementation deadlines, without ensuring readiness for change. It’s also common for projects to declare victory then walk away from the change effort on day-1 of implementation. Post-implementation stabilization and adoption is critical for lasting and sustainable change. This workshop helps teams get it right—reaching the goal of change that brings sustainable results. |
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All workshops are customized to fit your specific needs. |