| All-too-often, project managers are given projects with high level requirements defined in terms of scope, time, and budget, but with very little context related to business drivers and corporate strategy. As a result, the project manager may have an incomplete picture of why a project is important to an organization and what stakeholder expectations may be, increasing the risk that the project may not satisfy organizational requirements.
The gap between business analysis and project initiation must be filled in order for projects to align with business strategy. To close this gap, business analysts, project managers, and key stakeholders must collaborate effectively during the late phases of business planning and early stages of project initiation and planning. Project managers need to enable and direct collaborative analysis, planning, and decision making processes as well as capture and manage requirements as they evolve. By bridging the gap between business analysis and project planning, subject matter expertise maps into project definition and planning, stakeholder satisfaction improves, and the likelihood of project success increases.
At the core of the class will be a focus on how teams and subject matter experts collaborate in analytical and decision-making processes. Participants will learn how the use of mind maps enable teams to visualize their collaboration process in a way that improves decision making and requirements definition. As an output of each planning and initiation activity, mind maps also serve as a record of how decisions were reached and as an input into subsequent processes. In many instances, mind-maps also enable simultaneous collaboration between participants who in remote locations.
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