Get Requirements Once: What is GRO?
GRO is a highly structured requirements definition and detail design process. The process brings users and systems personnel together in interactive "brainstorming" sessions under the leadership of a trained GRO facilitator. The GRO facilitator maintains the agenda, enhances information flow and serves as a catalyst prompting participants as needed.
GRO participants are primarily users, knowledgeable of the business needs, systems under study, and authorized to make requirement and design decisions. Participants represent all of the functional areas that are or may be affected by the business solution.
GRO is independent of technology, although the process complements the use of other advanced technologies and processes.
Benefits of GRO to Your Organization
+ Opportunity and structure to manage expectations.
+ Reduction of up to 50% in the time required to define user requirements. For example, an insurance client indicated a DSC facilitated GRO accomplished in four days what they felt would have taken six months using traditional methods.
+ Reduction in design costs and time by 20-50%.
+ Improved user satisfaction, involvement and commitment.
+ Enhanced communication among different user areas and system personnel.
+ Rapid identification and resolution of problems and issues.
+ Measurable increases in quality that reduce maintenance and enhancement costs.
+ Reduced misunderstandings and related conflicts.
GRO Workshop Agenda
The objectives of this workshop are to empower individuals to facilitate requirements collection for projects that cross multiple system or user boundaries.
If you have trouble estimating, or getting requirements, this workshop gives you powerful skills. You will learn what GRO is, how to prepare and facilitate GRO sessions, and how to document GRO outcomes. This one day workshop covers, in detail, the five phases of preparing and conducting a GRO plus a case study for hands-on facilitation practice. Topics include:
GRO Background,
GRO Defined,
GRO Benefits,
GRO Definitions,
Five Phases of GRO, in detail,
Research,
Session Preparation,
Session Facilitation
Documentation,
Follow Up,
Project Estimation with Function Points,
Conflict Resolution and Issues,
Pitfalls, and
Case Study with Hands-On Facilitation Practice.
Who Should Attend
Project Managers
Analysts
Members of Design Teams
Anyone with System Requirements
End User Personnel
Measurement GRO
The fastest way to define and guarantee success in your measurement program is to do it once by Getting management to define their Requirements Once. This on site workshop, brings together the right managers and senior managers to define their goals, objectives and criteria for success. They actually guarantee your success. It allows you to get their support and concentrate on the critical cost effective measures needed now. For once you can actually manage expectations.
