Other DSDM practices

Question 1

What is a facilitated workshop

Answer 1

A special meeting with:
- clear objective deliverables
- specific ppl chosen and empowered to do the outcome
- an independent person to enable the outcome be achieved

Question 2

What are the benefits of facilitated workshops

Answer 2

• rapid, high quality decision making
• greater buy-in from all stakeholders
• building team spirits
• building consensus
• clarification of issues

Question 3

What are success factors for a facilitated workshop

Answer 3

• an effective, trained and independent workshop facilitator
• flexibility in the format but with clearly defined objectives
• preparation
• a mechanism for previous workshops to be built in
• decisions and agreements that are not forced
• a workshop report is recieved

Question 4

What can a model be defined as

Answer 4

• a description or analogy to help visualise something
• a small but exact cop of something
• a pattern or figure of something to be made

Question 5

What are the modelling perspectives?

Answer 5

What
How
Where
Who
When
Why???

Question 6

What is iterative development

Answer 6

The process where an evolving solution (or part of it) evolves from a high level concept to something with acknowledged business value

Several cycles should happen in a timebox and take a day or to

Question 7

What should an iterative cycle include?

Answer 7

Be only as formal as necessary and include
- thought (consideration of what needs to be done)
- action (complete the considered work)
- conversation (to review whether the outcome meets the need and if not what else should be done?)