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Workshop: BUILT FOR USE: Generating Meaningful Requirements

Location:

Level: 
Intermediate
9:00am - 4:00pm

Key takeaways

Why teams can spend a massive amount of time and energy developing requirements and still wind up with mediocre products that don’t meet user needs or business goals
Why surveys, focus groups and “gathered” requirements are all false clues
How to tell the difference between things people say they need vs. things they actually need — and how to make sure you include things they don’t know they need
Why Use Cases and User Stories aren’t enough to deliver truly meaningful requirements
How to integrate Personas and Contextual Use Scenarios into the requirements process
How to filter and validate requirements through the lenses of contextual use

Ask any group of people what they want or need and you’ll find no shortage of opinions or answers. Clients and stakeholders will always have a voluminous laundry list of features and functions, all of which they will insist are equally important. Your clients, employers, project stakeholders and users all share something very important in common: they’re all human beings. And we human beings all have a fundamental flaw: we often make very confident – but equally false – predictions about our future behavior. So the requirements that will actually be most useful and most valuable – the ones that will increase user adoption or sales; the ones that will make or save money – are almost never surfaced in traditional requirements sessions. In this workshop, Joe will show you how to change that, along with how to tell the difference between what people say they need and what they actually need. And finally, he’ll show you how to uncover the things they don’t know they need (but absolutely do).

Tracks

Covering innovative topics

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Wednesday Nov 18