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Use of A JAD Session: Joint Application Development (JAD) Is A Process Used To

Joint Application Development (JAD) is a process that brings together business users, subject matter experts, and IT staff to quickly gather requirements and agree on specifications for a new information system project. A JAD session is a structured workshop facilitated by a business analyst to pool expertise, identify issues, quantify needs, clarify requirements, and ensure agreement between customers and developers. The session aims to simplify requirements gathering, identify key participants, quantify information needs, clarify agreed upon requirements, unify development phases, and satisfy customers by giving them ownership of the defined system. Participants typically include an executive sponsor, subject matter experts, a facilitator, and key users. The JAD approach is thought to lead to faster development and greater satisfaction than the traditional

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Use of A JAD Session: Joint Application Development (JAD) Is A Process Used To

Joint Application Development (JAD) is a process that brings together business users, subject matter experts, and IT staff to quickly gather requirements and agree on specifications for a new information system project. A JAD session is a structured workshop facilitated by a business analyst to pool expertise, identify issues, quantify needs, clarify requirements, and ensure agreement between customers and developers. The session aims to simplify requirements gathering, identify key participants, quantify information needs, clarify agreed upon requirements, unify development phases, and satisfy customers by giving them ownership of the defined system. Participants typically include an executive sponsor, subject matter experts, a facilitator, and key users. The JAD approach is thought to lead to faster development and greater satisfaction than the traditional

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Joint Application Development (JAD) is a process used to collect business/user

requirements while developing new information systems for a company. The JAD
process may also include approaches for enhancing user participation, expediting
development and improving the quality of specifications. The intention of a JAD
session is to pool in subject matter expert’s/Business analyst or IT specialist to bring
out solutions.
A Business analyst is the one who interacts with the entire group and gathers the
information, analyses it and brings out a document. He plays a very important role in
JAD session.

Use of a JAD Session


JAD sessions are highly structured, facilitated workshops that bring together customer
decision makers and IT staff to produce high quality deliverables in a short period.
In other words, a JAD Session enables customers and developers to quickly come to
an agreement on the basic scope, objectives and specifications of a project or in case,
not come to an agreement which means the project needs to be re-evaluated.
Simply put, JAD sessions can
 Simplify − It consolidates months of meetings and phone calls into a structured workshop.
 Identify − Issues and participants
 Quantify − Information and processing needs
 Clarify − Crystallize and clarify all requirements agreed upon in the session.
 Unify − The output from one phase of development is input to the next.
 Satisfy − The customers define the system; therefore, it is their system. Shared participation
brings a share in the outcome; they become committed to the systems success.

Participants in a JAD Session


The participants involved in a JAD session are as follows −

Executive Sponsor

An executive sponsor is the person who drivers the project ─ the system owner. They
normally are from higher positions and are able to make decisions and provide
necessary strategy, planning and direction.

Subject Matter Expert

These are the business users and outside experts who are required for a successful
workshop. The subject matter experts are the backbone of the JAD session. They will
drive the changes.
Facilitator

He chairs the meeting; he identifies issues that can be solved as part of the meeting.
The facilitator does not contribute information to the meeting.

Key Users

Key users or also called as super users in some instances have been used
interchangeable and differs from company to company still. Key users are generally the
business users who are more tightly aligned to the IT project and are responsible for
the configuration of profiles of their team members during the projects.
For Example: Suppose John is a key user and Nancy, Evan are users of a SAP
system. In this instance, Nancy and Evan does not have access to change the
functionality and profile whereas John being a Key user has access to edit profile with
more authorizations.

The JAD approach, in comparison with the more traditional practice, is thought to lead
to faster development times and greater client satisfaction, because the client is
involved throughout the development process. In comparison, in the traditional
approach to systems development, the developer investigates the system
requirements and develops an application, with client input consisting of a series of
interviews.

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