The OneSpring JAM Session™

Experience Your Requirements

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 “68% of projects fail, run late, or are OVER budget.”
- The Standish Group, 2009 Chaos Summary Report

“70% of REWORK is attributed to correcting requirements errors.”

- Meta Group

“30% of project costs are REWORK .”

- Forrester Research
The Stream Process™ is a framework for how to better innovate and
collaborate using visualization.
Most SDLC methods provide a representation of the requirements late in the
lifecycle that lack the experiential aspect altogether

Traditiona
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The Stream Process™ occurs at the beginning of the lifecycle and provides
stakeholders the ability to experience and validate their requirements from the start

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 Accelerating the time to understanding provides a far greater
return on investment

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50%

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Designer
Designer Analyst
Designer Analyst Producer
We created the OneSpring
JAM Session™ to improve
the requirements elicitation
and validation process

A JAM Session allows

stakeholders to experience
their requirements
The Joint Application Modeling™ Session is comprised of these essential
“ingredients”…

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Small Group Rapid Visualization Flow

Collaboration Iterative
Design
 Collaboration in small groups provides an
effective means of problem solving within a
structured environment

Small Group Complex problems that go beyond the routine

Collaboration require the communication of shared knowledge
to create viable solutions/approaches
Small collaborative groups are well defined in their roles
for the JAM Session…

Producer – facilitates the experience

Analyst – elicits & documents the requirements

Designer – crafts the experience

Business – provides the “what?”

Technology – articulates the “how?”

The roles “match” the work environment and support the task flow…

Documentation Screen Visualization Screen

Analyst “Left Brain” Producer Designer “Right Brain”

Facilitates Flow

Business IT
SME on “What?” SME on “How?”
 “It has long been recognized that user interfaces
should be designed iteratively in almost all
cases...the median improvement in overall
usability was 165% from the first to the last
iteration, and the median improvement per
iteration was 38%...”
- Jakob Nielsen (Nov. 1993) Iterative User
Interface Design. IEEE Computer Vol. 26, No. 11
Rapid pp.32-41.
Iterative
Design
The requirements cannot be fully understood
until they can be experienced…
Insight – observation to gain valuable
knowledge and context on the business,
customer and technologies

Clarity - design activities that crystallize

the gathered insights to form a model of
the experience

Focus – socialization and measurement of

the experience model to provide
continuous improvement and validation
The iterative cycle allows us to rapidly visualize the “big picture”, gain
stakeholder consensus and then drill-down to specific features…
 From initial sketches to detailed information
design, visualization incorporates the use of
dynamic imagery as a means of effectively
communicating requirements

Visualization not only enhances a “shared

understanding”, but is critical in helping
Visualization
stakeholders organize their thoughts and work
through problems to collectively build a solution
Both the analytic and synthetic hemispheres of the brain are engaged
during the visualization process

Analyst “Left Brain” Designer “Right Brain”

Documentation Modeling
 ”Flow also happens when a person’s skills are
fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just
about manageable, so it acts as a magnet for
learning new skills and increasing challenges. If
challenges are too low, one gets back to flow by
increasing them. If challenges are too great, one

Flow can return to the flow state by learning new skills.”

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalvi (July. 1997) Psychology

Today
 A key aspect to generating the Flow includes both
the environment in which the JAM Session takes
place and the mental investment by the
stakeholders

Goals are clear

Feedback is immediate
Flow Balance between opportunity & capacity
Concentration deepens
The present is what matters
Control is no problem
Sense of time is altered
Loss of ego
The Stream Process and the JAM Session have worked successfully with
numerous clients…
To learn how OneSpring can help bring clarity
to your project, contact us:

clarity@onespring.net