Facilitated Workshop Assets

These assets supplement Ellen’s book Requirements by Collaboration

The assets include useful checklists, templates, tips, sample questions, and more. When you look inside the book, you’ll see an icon for “Web site." Here is where you can get these assets to help you in your requirements workshop practice.

Note: these assets are shared for free – as long as you do not charge anyone else for them. Tailor them to your projects and culture. In exchange, please share any revisions or suggestions you think will be useful to others.

Assets by Chapter

Part II Introduction

Requirements Workshop Work Breakdown Structure (.pdf | .doc )

Chapter 4 Purpose: Sharing a Common Goal

Workshop Agenda Template (.pdf | .doc )

Chapter 5 Participants: Roles People Play

Questions for Observers (.pdf | .doc )

Chapter 6 Principles: Ground Rules for the Workshop

Questions to Ask Stakeholders about Ground Rules (.pdf | .doc )

Example Workshop Ground Rules (.pdf | .doc )

Ways to Elicit Workshop Ground Rules (.pdf | .doc )

Chapter 7 Products: Ending with the Beginning

Workshop Materials and Supplies Checklist (.pdf | .doc )

Questions to Ask Stakeholders about Workshop Products (.pdf | .doc )

QA Checklist for Checking the "Doneness" of Requirements Models (.pdf | .doc )

Use Case Completion Worksheet (.pdf | .doc )

Chapter 8 Place: Being There

Workshop Room Setup Checklist (.pdf | .doc )

Tips on Facilitating Videoconferences and Teleconferences (.pdf | .doc )

Assets by Type

Templates and Forms

Workshop Agenda Template (.pdf | .doc )

Workshop Activity Design Template (.pdf | .doc )

Use Case Completion Worksheet (.pdf | .doc )

Workshop Business Value Worksheet (.pdf | .doc )

Workshop Feedback Survey Form (.pdf | .doc )

Workshop Process Evaluation Form (.pdf | .doc )

Checklists

Workshop Materials and Supplies Checklist (.pdf | .doc )

Workshop Room Setup Checklist (.pdf | .doc )

QA Checklist for Checking the "Doneness" of Requirements Models (.pdf | .doc )

Questions

Questions for Observers (.pdf | .doc )

Questions to Ask Stakeholders about Ground Rules (.pdf | .doc )

Questions to Ask Stakeholders about Workshop Products (.pdf | .doc )

Focus Questions for Modeling Tasks (.pdf | .doc )

Other Useful Focus Questions (.pdf | .doc )

Tips

Ways to Elicit Workshop Ground Rules (.pdf | .doc )

Tips on Facilitating Videoconferences and Teleconferences (.pdf | .doc )

Workshop Tools for Filtering Using The Sieve Collaboration Pattern (.pdf )

Examples

Example Workshop Ground Rules (.pdf | .doc )

Example Expand Then Contract Collaboration Pattern Applied to Listing Use Cases (.pdf | .doc )

General

Requirements Workshop Work Breakdown Structure (.pdf | .doc )

Using Multiple Learning Styles in Workshop Activities (.pdf | .doc )

Additional Facilitated Workshop Assets

Microsoft Excel version of the Agenda Template by Bill Bird

Workshop Quick Debrief Template

Steps for Integrating Reviews into Collaborative Workshops