Business Analysis: Facilitating Stakeholders
Facilitating Stakeholders
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Resources
Plan & Facilitate Meetings - Process Flow Chart (pdf)
Process Flow diagram referenced within the Plan & Facilitate Meetings presentation.
Project Management Advisor - Charter Template (link)
Charter Template referenced within the Plan & Facilitate Meetings presentation.
"Gamestorming – A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers” by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo (link)
Contains more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies.
“Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making” by Sam Kaner (link)
Includes multiple chapters on grounding principles, facilitator fundamentals, building sustainable agreements, and reaching closure. Of particular interest are numerous techniques for handling conflict in groups.
Effective Meetings from Office of Quality Improvement (link)
The tools and approaches in this online resource can help ensure that the meetings for which you are responsible are productive and worthwhile.
Facilitator Tool Kit from Office of Quality Improvement (pdf)
This PDF document is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to tools, methods and techniques for assisting groups with planning and improvement projects and interactive meetings.
Courses / Trainings
Stakeholder Management: Communication Through the Requirements Process
Course offered by Center for Professional & Executive Development.
Business Analysis Professional Development Certificate Program
This certificate series covers the overall process of business analysis, where and how it fits in the project life cycle, and the business context. Courses address real-world problems that business analysts face, demonstrate how to use business analyst techniques and tools, and use exercises to enhance the transfer of knowledge back to the participant's workplace.
Connect with an Expert
Ready to learn more?
Consider the Business Analysis professional development certificate program from the Center of Professional & Executive Development
Joe Goss | joe.goss@doit.wisc.edu
(608) 265-0653
Senior Business Analyst & Project Manager
Division of Information Technology (DoIT)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scott Converse | sconverse@bus.wisc.edu
(608) 441-7342
Director of Project Management, Six Sigma, and Business Analysis
Center for Professional and Executive Development
University of Wisconsin-Madison