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Joint Application Development
It brings together business area people
(users) and IT (Information Technology)
professionals in a highly focused workshop.
A JAD session is
- Very focused
- Conducted in a dedicated environment
- Quickly drive major requirements and interface “look & feel”
JAD Purpose
- To define the project
- Design a solution
- Monitor the project until it reaches completion
JAD Scope
- Cover the complete development life cycle of a system.
- For large-scale projects, it is recommended that the project be approached incrementally, and that separate JAD’s be used for each increment.
Who is involved in a JAD?
- Sponsor
- Business Users
- Real End Users
- Systems Analysts
- Development team
Roles of JAD Group Members
Record Keeper Responsibilities:
- take accurate and thorough notes during the meeting
- ask for clarification on points if anything is not clear
- summarize and condense the notes after the session
- ensure that the JAD leader and project sponsor or other relevant people
- proof and edit the notes prior to publishing
- publish the notes for all current members of the team and for any other interested parties
- keep a history of the notes for the benefit of any members who join the team in mid-project
- remind the group if they contradict earlier decisions and make sure they know they are in contradiction.
Timekeeper Responsibilities:
- makes sure the meeting begins and ends on time
- helps the meeting stay on time for each topic on the agenda
- reminds the group that they need to end a discussion in order to have time in the final minutes of the meeting
Roles of JAD Group Members
Typical Client Responsibilities:
- describe the sequence of events in a business process as it affects their office
- describe the decisions that have to be made in a business process
- define the information that the process has to deal with
- define what is critical vs. what would be nice for the first version of the system
- bring up any problems that exist in the current process or any opportunities for making it more efficient
- research policy questions when a new business procedure is being proposed
- analyze if there are any obstacles to success in the current environment of their office for implementing the new system
- create test cases for testing
- run test scripts on the cases
- give the developers feedback on the usability and accuracy and effectiveness of the system in an organized, documented way
- help prepare documentation on how the system works from a client’s point of view
- help prepare and implement training for other clients
All Team Members have the following responsibilities
- Commitment to the team
- Regular attendance
- Actively listen
- Actively participate
- Identify concerns
- Brainstorm ideas
- Recommend solutions
- Agree upon a design by consensus
- Assist with project duties
Why do we need to know about JAD?
- Ask the client what they want.
- Client signs off/verification on specifications
- Build and deliver the system according to the specifications.
- The clients says they want something different.
- Discover the true underlying problem.
- Don’t assume that one person ever knows everything about a problem
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