SIGIA-L: Summary: What is JAD?

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Hi gang, I asked What is JAD earlier this week and since I'm going on vacation and the responses have stopped coming in Ithought I would summarize what I got.

First here was the original post:

<<What is a JAD session?
Where can I find out more information about it?
how to do it? what it means to do it?
Is it just another name for a requirements gathering session?>>

I got a lot of responses. The bulk said, go to Google. I won't include those.
Since I got so many I won't include all responses (as this is a summary) so I'll include all links & book suggestions that I received at the end w/ a description if they were given and summarize the basics of what I learned. In many cases the outcome of a JAD are use cases. It assumes that the client or business owners are experts and in many cases are "the user".

JAD (Joint Application Development/Design) is a process by which all stakeholders in a project come together and design the functional specifications of an application together. In this way, concensus and buy-in are achieved in a timely manner and lessens the amount of re-iteration later in the process.

JAD was developed in the 70's by IBM according to some respondants and other resources.

I will admit that I'm not going to begin to summarize the BDUF vs. AD debate that started due to my query. Interesting though as it may be.

I want to add my own thoughts about this in terms of the term. I find it quite frustrating that people ask me, "have you done X?" assuming that everyone calls X the same thing. I've spent years doing JADs I just never knew it. Now when I recruiter asks me the question I can answer them appropriately. Thanx everyone.

Also I'm interested in Tim's comments and hope that that conversation continues.

LINKS:
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~burback/water_sluice/sluice6.25.97/ws/waterfall.gif - Waterfall Methodology Image

http://www.umsl.edu/~sauter/analysis/JAD.html - Student paper on JAD

http://www.utexas.edu/hr/is/pubs/jad.html Tutorial

http://www.ucc.ie/hfrg/projects/respect/urmethods/rad.htm Reference site

Reference Links:
http://www.gendev.com/education/bpm/jad.html
http://www.itnet.ca/ExpertisePgs/ServicePgs/JAD.HTM
http://netmation.com/docs/bb12.htm

http://www.bee.net/bluebird/jaddoc.htm Reference & Tutorial

BOOK LIST:
Joint Application Development, by Jane Wood and Denise Silver

Steve McConnell's book Rapid Development (Microsoft
Press)

Joint Application Design: The Group Session Approach to System Design by
Judy August. Part of the Yourdon Press Computing Series. It was published
by Prentice Hall in 1991. The ISBN number is 0-13-508235-8

David Heller
dave_at_htmhell.com
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