Workshops provide coverage for topics or perspectives not offered through our more formal curriculum series courses. Topics usually cover information or models that are being matured through the DOQS Research & Development Program but that have not yet been integrated into the formalized curriculum. These offerings are much less formal that our curriculum courses, emphasizing a collegiate instructional style and less polished learner and instructional materials. Most of our workshops occur as a single half-day or full-day session.

While a workshop can be built and offered on almost any topic, recently offered workshops have included:

• Requirements Gathering - A half-day overview of the relationships among the major classes of requirements - Customer Need, Business Process, and Functional System - and how they trace to each other during the elicitation and documentation of requirements. This workshop introduces learners to requirements gathering without the full detail of our DOQS Requirements Engineering Series. The full-day version of this workshop adds a hands-on requirements exercise that takes initial requirements through to a successful requirements walkthrough and assessment activity.

• Project Scheduling - A half-day or full-day workshop designed to teach new project managers the basics of building a comprehensive project work breakdown structure based on task activity durations and dependencies. Emphasis is placed on aligning such scheduling with basic PMI PMBOK™ and SEI CMMI® requirements for project planning and control. It is introductory material based on our DOQS Introductory Lifecycle & Project Management course.

• The QFD Backbone - A half-day workshop that covers the definition and interaction of the four House of Quality (HoQ) layers typically seen in a comprehensive Quality Function Deployment (QFD) model on an information technology project. It is introductory material based on our DOQS Design for Six Sigma I course.