Friday, June 5, 2026 | 7:35AM to 8:50AM

This Event will be delivered via Zoom Meeting

Note: Registrants will be sent the Zoom link in the registration confirmation email, and also one day prior to the meeting!

Agenda:
7:35 - 7:50am  Login to Zoom, Networking
7:50 - 8:50am  Presentation and Discussion

The PM for this event is: Joseph Carfagno - [email protected]

Registration closes: Thursday, June 4, 2026 at Midnight

Prototyping
facilitated by Joseph Carfagno, PMP

Prototyping is an excellent technique for eliciting requirements from stakeholders, especially when they are busy or struggle to articulate their needs. This method can be highly effective because it provides stakeholders with tangible, visual, and interactive representations of potential solutions, making feedback more intuitive and less abstract.

Key benefits of prototyping include:

1. Visualizing Requirements: By presenting stakeholders with mockups, wireframes, or interactive prototypes, you can help them identify what works well and what doesn't. This reduces the cognitive effort required for stakeholders to imagine solutions from scratch.
2. Immediate Feedback: Prototypes allow stakeholders to see and interact with a concept quickly, providing faster feedback compared to traditional requirement documentation.
3. Iterative Development: Prototyping supports an iterative approach where feedback from stakeholders can be incorporated into successive prototypes, refining the solution incrementally.
4. Reducing Ambiguity: Prototypes clarify vague or ambiguous requirements by translating them into concrete design elements.
5. Engaging Stakeholders: Even busy stakeholders may find prototypes engaging and easier to interact with during reviews, which can encourage their participation.
6. Validating Assumptions: Prototypes are a great tool to test the feasibility of solutions and confirm that stakeholder expectations align with practical implementation possibilities.

Types of prototypes that might be used:

• Low-Fidelity Prototypes: Sketches or basic wireframes provide quick visual overviews without significant development effort.
• High-Fidelity Prototypes: More detailed and interactive models, including clickable interfaces or animations, closely mimic the final product.
• Storyboards: Narrative sequences illustrating user interactions with the solution.
• Proof-of-Concept Models: Small-scale implementations to demonstrate the technical feasibility of key solution components.

When using prototyping to elicit requirements, make sure to involve stakeholders throughout the process, aligning the evolving prototype with their feedback. This iterative dialog can help deepen understanding and align expectations for the final solution without demanding prolonged participation from stakeholders.

How many of these techniques do you use? How successful have they been for you?

Bring your knowledge, skills, experience, or just plain curiosity to our discussion of Prototyping.

PDU Info: You will need to record and self-report your PDUs for this activity. Following the guidelines of the new CCR program and the PMI Talent Triangle®, the PDUs for this course can be applied as follows: 1.0 PDU - Power Skills

Joseph Carfagno has over 20 years of project experience in IT, primarily implementing and supporting enterprise-wide financial systems. As a program lead for SNEC-PMI he is committed to maintaining a valuable and sustainable series of Shelton meetings. He built prototypes before agile was invented.