Clear Requirements for Business Solutions - Benefits

Finally! Control your project budget and schedule for solution development, testing and implementation. How? With clear requirements that model the solution and build in flexibility for the project manager to handle the inevitable mid-development change requests.

Top 10 Benefits of Clear Requirements:

1. With simple document management, all project documentation has a single point of control.
2. The requirements document becomes part of the RFP, contract, and project plan.
3. Refined requirements document produces acceptance test scenarios.
4. Refined requirements document produces user training scenarios.
5. The Joint Application Development (JAD) process ensures that all stakeholders are on the same page and agree on deliverables, schedule, costs and contingencies.
6. JAD processes ensure all stakeholders' concurrence, sign-off, buy-in, and managed expectations.
7. Professional JAD facilitators ensure all stakeholders' participation in defining the deliverables, reviewing prototypes, and implementing the system.
8. Models clarify deliverables - processes, data, input windows, reports.
9. Models clarify development complexity, development effort, and budget.
10. Scheduled prototypes control schedule and budget, giving project managers planned change-windows.

Hell hath no fury like an assumption scorned. Make sure your system assumptions are accepted by all stakeholders and align with implementation expectations and constraints. Use the professionally facilitated JAD process to ensure project success.

Now all you need is a coach to -

• Help you get started.
• Demonstrate the process.
• Give supportive and creative feedback to your meeting (in person or on tape).

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