BEFORE INITIATING A PROJECT… would it be useful for the SVP of a Line of
Business at your company to know precisely how much time will be needed from
each member of their team to properly develop business requirements?
Precision in Forecasting for Business Requirements Elicitation
One of the most common complaints from IT organizations is that they are
unable to gain sufficient access to stakeholders and subject experts to extract requirements. This issue should be managed as a symptom – it may not
be the problem. For example, while we use a strict approach to participation, in
our satisfaction reporting with clients we’ve found:
- Well over 90% of participants “Strongly Agree” that the benefit of doing
requirements in a group session far outweigh the difficulties in scheduling and
negative impact on other projects. We get the right level of participation even
though we demand a higher level of interaction.
- Over 75% will “strongly agree” that the Digital Mosaic approach is faster to
execute, and gets a better level of interaction with participants (over 90%
agree that they were engaged and able to contribute).
Crystallizing a project and delivering a comprehensive elicitation plan is
one of our specialties. With a comprehensive elicitation plan, your organization
is better prepared to get executive sign-off and plan support, then communicate
the needs to participants clearly in advance of sessions, and finally, deliver
on the expectation set by completing sessions efficiently.
“You showed us the right questions to ask and when to ask them.”
Monaco Coach Corporation
