Requirements workshops are very useful because they require planning and preparation, as well as good meeting facilitation skills. The most successful requirements workshops are well planned: they include clear and deliberate opening and closing activities; they include carefully selected exercises, discussions and activities to elicit and model requirements; and they are facilitated with the right balance of flexibility and diligence. This guide provides tips to help you think through these important aspects of a requirements workshop. The final two steps in using requirements workshops are conducting the workshop and tracking the workshop tasks and requirements, to generate the final deliverable. The workshop conduct checklists are used to guide the conduct of the meeting. Don't forget to thank your participants for sharing their time and knowledge, both at the beginning and at the end of the workshop. Reiterate any conclusions or key points captured during the meeting and distribute a summary to all participants for clarification and feedback on the requirements details you captured. To follow up, after the workshop, review and summarize your notes with the facilitation team and send them to your workshop participants for review. Incorporate any feedback you receive into the final deliverables you generate based on the workshop results. During the workshop Be an early riser – Arrive onsite early enough to prepare and set up all your support materials. Don't forget Murphy's Law. Remember, tense stakeholders don’t contribute – Your first goal should be to get everyone to relax. I like Adrian Reed's article about leaving ranks at the door during workshop sessions. As Business Anal...... middle of paper ......na place. Statements are displayed sequentially, labeled with the time they were sent and the name of the sender. The whiteboard is used to summarize a summary of the discussion. The presence panel displays the currently logged in participants and the role played. In eConference, you can choose from three different types of conferences: • Meeting. This guarantees limited control power since the moderator can only “freeze” disruptive participants (i.e. prohibit them from typing and sending statements). This type of conference models simple, remote brainstorming. • Presentation. This is a more complex type of conference: a specially invited expert, the speaker, delivers his own virtual speech in text form and other participants can ask questions, after “raising their hand”. • Panel. This is a generalization of the presentation, since there is more than one speaker, what is called