Project scope challenges

Getting project definition and scope right is challenging. Consider the following:

• Project budgets are typically allocated based on up-front high-level scope judgements which break down when fully detailed
• Multiple stakeholders have differing views on priorities
• Information and context is lost when translating the business goals and priorities for the project into the software requirements

Given this situation it is not suprising that, according to industry analysts, over 70% of software projects fail due to poor requirements management.

What is Start Right?

Start Right is a targeted solution to defining project scope that provides traceability from business goals through to software features. This is achieved through a proven business analysis and software specification methodology and using a unique structured requirements approach, within an agile development framework.

Start Right also introduces standardised techniques for completeness checking and ongoing prioritisation, enabling a controlled iterative delivery cycle and thereby reducing cost and risk.

How does it work?

Strata consultants conduct a short services engagement to assess the business drivers for the project, review existing project definition standards, and introduce and customise project and release definition standards.

We then use leading requirements management tools and techniques to formalise and capture structured software requirements for the project with traceability back to the business process and rules, together with an associated prioritisation framework.