vel2002 wrote Hi : Can anybody suggest me how to facilitate a fact finding planning session to gather requirements and specifications for a client tracking solution software project? I thought some ideas but i am not sure if i am right. I need to do a presentation on this session.Suggestions please.

Can you provide some more details on the goals of this meeting and the state of the project?  Generally, the "fact finding" and "requirements gathering" are no part of the same session.   Fact finding sessions are generally performed upfront when the project vision is just a one liner and the project initiator/sponsor wants to get some more info to ensure that this project is worthwhile and make sense in the context of the existing business processes and systems.

So...

...what state is your project in (do you have a project charter, vision, high-level requirements, etc.)?

...what is the main goal of this session/meeting?

Best regards,

- Adrian

vel2002 wrote Dear Adrian: Thank you so much for your reply. The presentation is actually a part of testing my communication skills. The question goes " Based on Microsoft CRM, to implement a contact management and client tracking solution, facilitate a fact finding planning session and take us through the process of gathering our specifications and requirements for this project."  I was not sure what i have to do. Please do let me know. Thanks Kumar

Hi Kumar,

So your main goal is to create a presentation which you will present to an audience (who is your audience) and which will be all presented at one time?  And the goal of this presentation is NOT to actually perform fact finding and requirements gathering but to present how you would go about doing requirements gathering and fact finding.  Is this correct?  Is this part of something like Toastmasters or this is an actual assignment that your boss has given you and he/she actually expects your to either gather requirements for a real systems or role play requirements gathering for a fictitious system?

I'll be glad to give you some direction but I'm trying first to understand what your end goal is.

- Adrian