Joint Application Development

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Joint Application Development

• Marquette University June 7, 2001
• Marge Mueller

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JAD Definition

• A joint venture between users and IT
  professionals.
• A structured workshop session

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What else

• Accelerated Design
• Facilitated Session/workshop
• Interactive Design
• Joint Requirements Planning
• Modeling Sessions
• Group Analysis / Design
• Group Decision

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JAD Agenda

• Introductions 15
• Rules
• Participant Roles
• Session Guide
• Session 30
• Purpose
• Group Decisions
• Evaluation
• JAD Wrapup 10
• JAD Phases
• Why use JAD
• Critical Success factors

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Session Rules

• Executive Sponsor provides session objectives and
  business background.
• Schedule/Agenda/Introductions
• One person speaks at a time
• Silence means consent
• Be on time or silent until next break
• No phone calls
• Silent observers speak only on request

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JAD Participant Model
Exec Sponsor
Customer Specific
Business Owners
Business Subject Matter Experts
Facilitator/Scribe/Process Guide
IT Standard
Technical Team
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The Session Guide
Purpose Scope Objectives
Assess Assess Assess
Open Issues
Process Steps
Requirements
Constraints
People Process Technology Culture

• Build through out session
• Organize
• Define action
• Assign responsibility
• Report progress

• Prioritize
• Strategize
• Organize

• Describe input, output, work done for each
  process or entity

• Document app
• details
• Apply time line
• Resource required

• Tell why project is being done
• Verify scope
• Define success criteria for session

Activity

• Brainstorm
• Workflows
• SME discuss
• Data flows
• Cases

• Portfolio
• strategy
• Application
• plans
• HR plan
• Hardware
• Software
• Budget

• Screens
• Reports
• Entity diagrams

• Issue list
• Changemanagement
• Metrics program

• Exec Intro
• Project Charter
• Proposed Initiative
• White Paper

Process/ Tool
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Purpose - When to use JAD

• Plan projects
• Design systems
• Decide alternatives
• Rapid development
• Interactive design
• Multiple users, platforms, media

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Group Decision

• List Criteria
• Assign weights to criteria
• List alternatives
• Evaluate criteria for each alternative
• Knowledge capture for re-use
• Determine weighted score
• Total the scores

Kepner-Tregoe method
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Decision Score
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What is JAD
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Why use JAD

• Decide functional alternatives
• Process improvement acquisition/data conversions
• Modify processes across 5 states for universal
  phone .
• Plan new Client/Server application.

• Manpower
• Firstar
• Ameritech
• Payco

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JAD Critical Success Factors

• Business focus, user owners, management
  commitment
• Roles and responsibilities understood
• Dedicated participants - all equal
• Preparation is as important as session
• Good agenda and stick to it
• Effective environment
• Trained facilitator, analytical scribe
• Appropriate tools for models, prototypes, meeting
  ware
• Final document quickly