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Do you handle evolving requirements effectively?
Introduction
It is well acknowledged that poor management of requirements is one of the main reasons for project failure and amongst the top reasons for poor customer experience. Despite this wide spread awareness, the industry has done little to improve effectiveness of managing requirements.
Why is effective requirements management difficult?
'Late' requirements
The requirements evolve as the users and designers 'drill down' during the course
of system development because user’s initial understanding of what is required may
be complete and inaccurate. However, the vendor puts a 'hard' end date for requirements
phase and raises change orders when confronted with 'late' requirements. Executing
the late requirements will impact project cost and schedule; not executing these
will decrease the chance of user adoption.
Handshake issue
The key stakeholders in the exercise e.g., User, Analyst and Developer do not share
a common understanding of the required product. The user is presented with the Requirements
Document. This document, which is usually in text format, is a poor representation
of the final product.
Reducing risk of software ownership
Maintenance is the longest phase in the life cycle of an application and also the most expensive. Exility makes it possible to raise efficiency in this phase to be able to respond to changes while keeping costs under control.
How are requirements captured in Exility?
Identification of users and analysis of the tasks that they want to perform is the first and most critical step in our approach. We will collate information on who the users are and description of the complete job that the user wants to do
Our design team comprising usability and functional experts reviews the task descriptions and translate these into visual components
Generating higher level of user involvement
Visual components show what the screens would look like dynamically, what actions
the user would take, how would the screen behave in response to such specific user
actions, at all points in each task. During requirements phase itself, the users
get to see what they will actually use in the final product
Clients buy results, not software
Most clients feel that software projects fail to deliver business benefits. We have analyzed the prevailing approaches and concluded that client's software buying experience can be improved significantly.
Supporting evolution of requirements
Evolution of requirements is better supported with Exility, as movement of data
between visual components and database has been automated and requires design input
only. The design team can quickly make changes to the visual components according
to the input from users.
Common understanding of needs
The validated visual components act as a handshake between project stakeholders.
Now users, analysts and developers share a common understanding of the dynamic screen
behavior. This helps reduce the number of iterations required during testing and
acceptance.
How does Exility deliver results?
Exility simplifies development and maintenance of software solutions by reducing the cycle time of implementing the business initiative and ensuring sustained value to clients.
Summary
Business users know what they want to achieve from the software even though they cannot anticipate how they will use new technology. But the prevailing approaches give commitment only based on what they propose to build but not on supporting all the tasks that users want to perform. With Exility, we are able to provide such commitment.
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Reducing risk of software ownership
Maintenance is the longest phase in the life cycle of an application and also the most expensive. Exility makes it possible to raise efficiency in this phase to be able to respond to changes while keeping costs under control.
Clients buy results, not software
Most clients feel that software projects fail to deliver business benefits. We have analyzed the prevailing approaches and concluded that client's software buying experience can be improved significantly.
How does Exility deliver results?
Exility simplifies development and maintenance of software solutions by reducing the cycle time of implementing the business initiative and ensuring sustained value to clients.
