Workshops

< Investigation techniques
 * Dutch: Workshops (NL)


 * De Bono's Six Hats technique
 * Brainstorming
 * Brainwriting
 * Break outs
 * Brown paper sessie
 * Round robin


 * Workshops are a useful tool for discussing and resolving issues, eliciting requirements, and carrying out other activities in a collaborative forum.
 * Must be well-organized and run, which requires careful preparation by the facilitator and business sponsor.
 * Roles
 * Participant
 * Attendees
 * Scribe
 * Records key points and actions agreed
 * Facilitator
 * Planned and conducted to reach objectives and that attendees may contribute
 * Process
 * 1 Plan
 * W-questions
 * Objectives
 * Structure
 * Techniques
 * Venue
 * 2 Conduct
 * Focus on objectives
 * Keep on track
 * 3 Follow-up
 * Broad understanding
 * Increase speed & productivitiy
 * Obtain buy-in & acceptance
 * Consensus view
 * Extensive preparation time
 * Undue influence of personalities
 * Limitations authority of workshop participants
 * Workshop techniques
 * Brainstorming
 * Call out ideas and they are written on a board for
 * Evaluation is suspended until everyone has finished
 * Round robin discussions
 * Provide their ideas in turn.
 * Brainwriting
 * Write down ideas on paper and build on each other's ideas.
 * Sticky (Post-it) note exercises
 * Write down their suggestions and group similar ideas together.
 * Stepwise refinement
 * Statement or idea and asks ‘why?’ until the heart has been uncovered.
 * Break-out or syndicate group exercises
 * Small groups to make suggestions or develop ideas
 * Volunteer from each group reports back to the larger group.
 * Evaluation using De Bono's Six Hats technique
 * only one perspective is discussed at a time, it uses different hats such as green hat to generate ideas, red hat to record emotional response, white hat to obtain facts, etc.
 * [...]?
 * Evaluation using De Bono's Six Hats technique
 * only one perspective is discussed at a time, it uses different hats such as green hat to generate ideas, red hat to record emotional response, white hat to obtain facts, etc.
 * [...]?