Workshop Technique
Rule001 - Room Facilities and Layout
Rule002 - Location and Duration
Rule003 - User Workshop Project Structure
Rule004 - Participant Selection and Participation
Rule005 - Workshop Agenda Model
Rule006 - Rules of Operation and Open Issue Handling Conventions
Rule007 - Documentation Conventions
Rule008 - Critical Success Factors
Guideline001 - Preparations
Guideline002 - Tips
Details
Workshops bring together the key people in a project, in a facilitated group session, to accomplish certain objectives. Workshop attendees may be from the business community (users) as well as from the technical community, or they may be from outside of the enterprise; the point is to bring together all of the people who have the requisite knowledge to address an identified issue. Serial interviewing and the potential for misinterpretation of important information is avoided.
The workshop technique can be used for any situation which requires something more than a simple meeting or round table discussion, such as quick turnaround of information, multiple sources of information, and overcoming political or personal roadblocks to project success.
Benefits
There are many qualitative and quantitative benefits of employing the workshop technique. Providing a structured environment where key stakeholders can discuss important topics openly results in improved decisions making, ownership and consensus, improved deliverable quality, more effective project teams and reduced time and cost.