Understanding & Analysing Client Needs Workshop: A Case Study

Introducing dev, product and UX students to project scoping and client-facing skills

Client: OpenClassrooms

 

“Doing this webinar with you will improve others we host from now on. It was highly effective to encourage student interactions. Students were interested and engaged and rated your webinar with high marks!

Ibis Lilley, Mentorship Operations Director, OpenClassrooms

“I recently finished a project about this topic and had trouble understanding it. This workshop gave me new excitement for the topic. Thank you, I learned a lot!”

Development student, OpenClassrooms

 
 
 

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Background

OpenClassrooms is one of the largest online education and training platforms in Europe. Their students complete skills-based projects and receive weekly mentoring sessions.

We created a custom webinar for their students in order to:

  • Identify project stakeholders

  • Approach each interactions by offering their expertise (instead of blindly fulfilling requirements)

  • Use open-ended questions as a way to uncover deeper information

  • Clarify assumptions and check in regularly

  • Recommend a plan and include diagrams and visuals to aid discussions

 

Services:

  • Research for Non-Researchers

  • Custom Webinar “Understanding and Analysing Client Needs”

We hosted an interactive webinar to help students learn the skill of scoping projects and communicating clearly with clients and stakeholders.

We hosted an interactive webinar to help students learn the skill of scoping projects and communicating clearly with clients and stakeholders.

 
 

The impact

The workshop:

  • Included students from different degrees including front end development, back end development and product management

  • Followed an interactive structure that OpenClassrooms will adopt for future webinars

  • Was rated highly by students; we were rated 9.1/10 as the expert presenter and 8/10 would attend a similar webinar again

  • More than doubled the usual survey response rate: 67% of students provided their feedback after the webinar

 
 

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