Comparing Joint Application Development and Rapid Application Development Zetao Hou 10629435 Saint Joseph’s University Abstract This paper discuss what Joint Application Development and Rapid Application Development are respectively. And then compare the differences and similarities between two methods. For last part, talks about Joint Application Development is more valuable in Ipsos in China marketing research company. Joint Application Development Joint Application Development is a method that combines product development, management and focus group to build a product. IBM created the Joint Application Development technique in 1970’s (Alan Cline, 2000). The main function is …show more content…
The first one is executive sponsor, who is from customers’ organization and has authority to make ultimate decision for the project. The responsibilities of executive sponsor are resolving business conflicts between users and company, setting the landscape of JAD process, ensuring project team get in touch with right users and obtaining credibility of users. In other words, executive will help JAD team to work smoothly. The second one is facilitator who is keystone for the project success. Facilitator need have strong knowledge for the product and capacity to capture requirement from users. The responsibility of a JAD facilitator are: organizing JAD activities and making plan, guiding the activities, weakening dispute, encouraging users’ participation, making sure the meeting content in the right way, summarizing the meeting and decision making. The most important point is facilitator should not have his/her own interest to Joint Application Development outcome, should be neutral and objective. For example, JAD facilitator is usually from product technology team, he/she would be familiar with the goal of team or the company. In this way, facilitator will affect JAD session outcome by language and gesture. Based on these considering, facilitator must be objective and understand when and how to ask right question to get most efficient answer. The next one is
Facilitator - Shirrell: The facilitator is in charge of keeping communication lines open among the members of the group. This individual is also tasked with assigning roles, ensuring that everyone contributes to the project and will communicate with the professor if needed. Finally, the facilitator will ensure that the work is completed on time and will be in charge of final submissions.
The Joint Application Development (JAD) is a newer and more organized means of gathering information to base requirements on. This process is conducted by holding sessions in which key stakeholders and other key members of management are present and work together in the outline of the possible requirements.
The current development process devotes a large amount of time at the front end of development to establishing customer needs and converting them into system level requirements. The client-site team meets with customers, learns their needs, develops specifications, verifies them with the customers, and then sends them offshore for development. This is a very formalized, documented process. (+)
Responsible for all aspects of project design, coordination and team/consultant management. Also responsible for coordination with the contractor and facility managers to assess site existing conditions, identify problems and design solutions (Design
Responsible for all aspects of project planning, design, coordination and team/consultant management. Also responsible for establishing / managing project schedule budgets, assembling design team (contracting), organizing / leading user group meetings.
As the world became more and more dependent on technology with each passing day, software automatically became an important organ for development. Since software is needed almost everywhere today, its development is a highly intelligent and precise process, involving various steps. Known as software development life cycle, these steps include planning, analysis, design, development & implementation, testing and maintenance. These steps go on to create the perfect software for clients. ”
In my opinion I think the primary facilitator of a team has the most responsibilities and most stressful task. They must interact with their teammates, bounce around ideas, ask teammates questions and participate in discussions. When fulfilling the role as the facilitator it is very important to be observant. The facilitator must observe the people around them and to gage how they interact with the group.
The first participant is Hugh McCauley, COO, who requested this service. The project manager is
Responsible to the board of directors who govern the organization and responsible for entire operation of the organization.
- Product Development- product development is composed of existing markets and new products, it occurs when an organisation with a current or existing market undertakes a strategy of creating a new product which provides
When a facilitator is prepared, it is eases the process and allows objectives to be reached while building trust, and maintaining a healthy client relationship. This paper will reflect different authors preparation techniques to gain a successful facilitation while focusing on contracting, having a pre-planned meeting, and building a relationship with the members of the organization.
With the team leader being an assistant designer and have the administrative role of being a “manager” to the team, the team leader gave directions and provided thoughts about how communication for the entire team for the entire completion of the project would take effect.
Managing the external product research, developing sales plans, and increasing sales is the responsibility of the chief marketing officer. Analyzing the data supplied by the marketing department to development shoes that customers want to purchase is the responsibility of the research and development officer. The human resources officer is responsible for ensuring the company complies with all applicable laws, employee development, employee relations, recruitment, and employment engagement. All aspects of technology are the responsibility of the chief information officer. The c-suite employees are also responsible for developing budgets, departmental success, strategic direction of department and the staffing of their individual departments. The accounting manager is responsible for the monthly and quarterly accounting functions for the organization. The day-to-day accounting functions are the responsibility of the accounting support staff. The USA, Euro, and India vice presidents develop and implement the marketing strategy for their region. They are solely responsible for the success of their region. The product development directors work closely with marketing and research and development to produce athletic shoes. Sales directors are responsible for developing sales plans and supervising the sales team. The support sales
Besides, regarding to the clients, the JVI had never build up a connection with the client until the surprisingly got the contract, the existence of hierarchy and non-trust between client and project team lead to the inefficiency of obtaining client information, later resulted in Jack’s misleading proposal for market research. Also, because in the concept of high power distance, decision making process is limited one-way participation and communication (In the Eye of the Beholder, cross cultural lessons in leadership from project GLOBE, Mansour Javidan, Peter W. Dorfma, etc), Jack’s own lack of experience on project management made it is possible for the project to diverge from previous direction under one person’s leadership.
External customer requirements may be gathered and transformed into specific, actionable process improvements using quality function deployment, a well- structured product development process which dictates what the market requires into a program to create, manufacture, and deliver it. However, teams should collaborate to arrive at a common understanding of the customer needs and determine the appropriate technical requirement of each stage. As soon as customer expectations are met, customer satisfaction will improve, resulting in a take-back of market share and an increase in revenue.