Our group of five members were hired as an IT specialist group, named group 13, to work for Cybercation Café Project. To perfect the Cybercation Café Project’s Value Chain and functioning of their work arrangement, our group had decided to hold an interview by implementing Joint Application Development (JAD) meetings with our Client group. In order to be successful with our plans our group had evaluated their Strategic Plan to decide on IT solutions which would help bring value towards their strategic purposes.
The strategic plan ‘Cybercation’ is to fabricate an internet café around New Zealand and even across Australia. It plans to offer additional services such as e-learning and certification etc., along with the usual internet …show more content…
Project Progress
3.1 Review of JAD work (advantages/disadvantages)
JAD framework helps conduct group meetings with professional rules and regulations in terms of behaviour which assist’s the team members in having common understanding of the needs of the client. This helped us work as a group and achieve our aims.
The only disadvantage was the availability of all the participants and to arrange an appropriate time because of poor communication. Also the JAD approach is a long procedure and needs a lot of follow ups from time to time which makes the approach time consuming and long.
1. 3.2 Lessons Learned and Personal Development
This task gave a chance to research different parts of JAD methodology to include the customer in the particular outline and help them meet their accurate needs.
The approach helped the team to suggest IT based solutions to our clients and further assisted in improving our communication skills.
This also provided our team with a real life experience on suggesting IT based solutions and organising and dividing tasks across our project team. It also helped us learn time management, as we could have had more meetings with our clients to have a deeper understanding about the