Part Two: Requirements Workshop Framework

Chapters 4 through 9 present a framework for planning and delivering requirements workshops. Each chapter represents an element of a workshop design framework that I call the six P's: purpose, participants, principles, products, place, and process.

Underlying this framework is a process that includes four high-level phases (plan, do, check, act), each with the stages shown in Figure II-1.

Figure II-1. The Requirements Workshop Process

A complete work breakdown structure, which includes detailed tasks for each stage of the process, is available on the book's Web site.

As you read the chapters that follow, this figure will reappear to guide your reading by highlighting the stage that's being explained.

As you read more about the ingredients for a successful workshop, first described in Chapter 3, you'll see an icon similar to the one at the left.