This is a practical step. It helps you to fine-tune a concept while meticulously planning design and development. Discovery aids in the avoidance of costly delays, snags, or significant strategic mistakes by providing purpose and direction to the project team and bringing everyone together around a common goal. It also assists in highlighting any possible hurdles that may arise later on and derail the project.
Mind Map is an interaction diagram visualizing project needs and defines roles, modules, business-critical integrations.
Value: The Mind Map helps to understand the scope and boundaries of the project, build internal relationships, and track inconsistencies and duplicate requirements.
Functional requirements described in the form of user stories, understandable by both business and technical parties
User story explains:
- what type of user wants requires functionality;
- what exactly functionality is required;
- what user is trying to achieve with functionality.
Value: Assurance that planned scope of work consists only of the most business-critical functionality which is aligned with budget
It visualizes the way the product works: the main scenarios of interaction with the system, how the user comes to his goal, and how the system responds to that interaction.
Value: Highlights interactions within MVP that could support future features for the proper system architecture planning and development.
The core idea driving the design of a future product. The design idea focuses on the user interface (UI) and shows how the final product may appear and feel.
Value: This helps the designers and developers stay on track throughout the creative process, ensuring they bring a product to market with value to target users.
A version of your future product with limited functionality to make sure that it can be built using the chosen technology to serve its purpose and at the same time aligned with the budget.
Value: your key stakeholders will see that building the product is technically feasible.
Non-functional requirements specify what a system should be, whereas functional requirements define what it should perform.
Value: they outline the system's most significant characteristics and how they may impact the complexity and expense of development.
A document specifying the main requirements for integration with third-party services or APIs and defines the data formats in use.
Value: knowledge on how to integrate the solution with the required software
Bottlenecks are setbacks or obstacles that slow or delay business goals achievement. Identifying a workflow bottleneck early can help to streamline your processes before the results cause irreparable harm to your operations.
Value: detailed research of the problem and its possible solution.
IT's Discovery Program is its own beast with many intricacies. The Discovery Program equips businesses in discovering existing underlying challenges in order to reveal the project's business value and technical complexity.
The Program helps you in aligning your budget with product functionality and informs you of any potential functional and non-functional restrictions. You'll also get a realistic product scope estimate and a thorough grasp of the product development process.