Shifting the Paradigm of Requirements Gathering - LavaCon 2015

1. Shifting The Paradigm
of Requirements Gathering
Michelle Caldwell – MVP, CSM, PMP,SSGB
Avanade

2. Brief Description – Format – Lecture
Are you tired of attending or leading the same old boring requirements-
gathering sessions? Would you like to find a way to get stakeholders
excited about requirements gathering? Then this class is for you!
Find out how to use collaborative play to build better solution requirements
for SharePoint projects (or any other project for that matter). In this class,
you will learn seriously fun ways to do work-seriously! Learn how to tap
into true innovation and uncover hidden business requirements. What are
you waiting for? Come to this class and learn how to put these tools into
action!

3. By attending this class, you will be able to:
• Introduce new and field-tested concepts for creating a clear and compelling vision
for SharePoint
• Facilitate more effective requirements-gathering sessions
• Identify and avoid five problem patterns that plague many project teams
• Hit the ground running with new templates that you can use to facilitate your own
Innovation Games
• Refine requirements down to measurable business value, and map to strategic
business goals using the "rainbow" technique

4. Michelle Caldwell – MVP, CSM, PMP, SSGB
Michelle is a SharePoint Solutions Architect and Director of
Collaboration at Avanade. She is a Certified Innovation Games
Instructor and a Microsoft SharePoint MVP with over 16 years of
experience delivering business solutions to diverse organizations.
For the past nine years, she has focused on delivering enterprise
SharePoint solutions across multiple industries while leading
teams that have won outstanding achievements in Web
Development. She is a founding member and President of the
Columbus, Ohio SharePoint User Group (BuckeyeSPUG) and
actively shares her real-world experience through her blog
www.shellecaldwell.com and conferences across North America.
She also sits on the board of two Columbus, Ohio non-profits in
support of her local technology community.