Requirements Analysis
What do you want achieve on the Web? Have you prioritised those objectives? Have you listed the constraints on the project, and accounted for them in your brief? Have you defined the various users of your product, and examined the ways that they will interact with it?
Many companies fail to define the priorities and scope of their projects. This can be a costly mistake as specifications creep, objectives are abandoned, and contractors bill for unforeseen features.
Whether you are tackling a project in-house or contracting out, we can help you pin down your project, minimising risk and maximising benefits.
What it Entails
No matter how luminously clear a need may seem, the devil is often in the details, especially if you intend to work with subcontractors to achieve your objectives.We will work with you to define your objectives. These will set the benchmark by which the success of your project will be measured.
We will identify the people who have a stake in your project both within an organisation and from the user community. Stakeholder contributions allow us to document opportunities and threats that should be addressed.
We analyse the constraints that will affect a project. Usually the most pressing of these are budget and timescale, but you may also be limited to a particular technology (a database, or a server platform, for example). You may also be bound by industry or company rules that have an impact on the functionality of the product.
Based on this research we build a detailed breakdown of the product, describing its structure and the mechanisms for user interaction.
At this stage, you may wish to work with our report yourself. Alternatively, we can help source and brief contractors, working with them to define a delivery plan.
Effective project planning is often the first casualty of a cost-cutting exercise. In our experience, lack of planning is the greatest cause of project failure, budget overruns, and poor outcomes. Requirements analysis will help you to define the parametres for success.
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