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A WISDM requirements workshop is organized into five steps:

  • Planning

  • Training

  • Creating and documenting the model (requirements)

  • Peer review

  • Final review and approval
During planning, a small team confirms the modeling objectives, defines the scope of the model, selects the workshop team, and handles workshop logistics. The training step provides team members with an overall understanding of the modeling process and how they will work together. During the third step, creating and documenting the model, the work intensifies. Led by facilitators, the team brainstorms, analyzes, and records their representation of how a business unit, product, process, or system should be at some point in the future. Once the team has documented this model, they share it with peers to ensure that they have properly represented their areas ideas, needs, and interests. Following a successful final review, the model is placed under configuration management, thus allowing the project to move to the next development step.

A WISDM Requirements workshop is successful because it is conducted within the framework of:

  • Executive sponsorship that values a model of the future 
  • Clear objectives and scope
  • A well-defined agenda of activities
  • An understanding of the workshop result the deliverable
  • A knowledgeable team of stakeholders
  • Efficient and effective workshop methods and supporting tools
WISDM Requirements workshops are well organized. Our clients tell us that our workshops are the most efficient and productive meetings they've ever been a part of. WISDM's goal is to use its clients' resources as effectively and quickly as possible; we know time is precious, and that it must produce value.