Engaging stakeholders during and especially at the beginning of your project will help reduce and uncover risks and increase their \u201cbuy-in.\u201d When stakeholders provide you with their “as-is” situation, current challenges and issues, you would be able to see how a Business Glossary could address some or all of that. Having your Business Glossary stakeholders engaged from early on will spark enthusiasm in this deliverable, and make for an easier adoption and a successful change management. <\/p>\n
During your conversation with them you will be able to determine:<\/p>\n
Stakeholders are a wealth of knowledge about current processes, historical information, and industry insight. Many times these team members will have been working at the organization longer than the project manager or project team. It\u2019s important to involve all key stakeholders when gathering and documenting the pain points and have the need of a Business Glossary come from them. Plus, key stakeholders can provide requirements or constraints based on information from their own unit that will be important to have when understanding the constraints and risks of implementing the Business Glossary. <\/p>\n
The more you engage and involve stakeholders, the more you will reduce and uncover risks on your project. When discussing their current situation, you will inadvertently uncover some requirements for the Business Glossary, such as specific attributes that it should contain or even specific content that should be developed and deployed with its first iteration. Stakeholders may also bring up issues or concerns about meeting those things. Uncovering risks and then discussing a plan to mitigate them before issues arise will dramatically increase the success of your project. Involving knowledgeable stakeholders during this process will help. <\/p>\n
By gathering the stakeholders’ pain points and having them voice the need of a Business Glossary, you will get their \u201cbuy-in,\u201d which will in turn help increase the success of this deliverable. Similar to what’s mentioned above, you will also uncover what’s most important to them in terms of accessibility, functionality, and content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1853","tva_lesson","type-tva_lesson","status-publish","hentry","tva_courses-business-glossary","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"\n