Capturing Project & Customer Requirements
Catalyst provides experience and strategies to help organizations capture and
specify requirements. Catalyst's services
include:
- Facilitating Joint Requirements Planning Clinics
- This is a collaborative voice-of-the
customer workshop that provides structured elicitation for
customers and developers. We also have a number of creative web-enabled
techniques for capturing customer needs and priorities that do no
involved extensive face-to-face meetings.
- Developing and Deploying Requirements Capture Process
- Catalyst can provide you with a tailored
set of methods for use in your own business. For example, the approaches
to business requirements, system requirements, and technology
requirements are different. Catalyst provides tools like checklists &
templates, prioritization strategies, risk assessment, and automated
requirements management tools. We can help you determine the role
the project
office should play with respect to requirements capture processes.
Finally, we can help you communicate the program to the organization.
- Training & Mentoring Project Staff
- How
to Capture Customer Requirements and Develop Project Scope.
This is a very popular offering, and we have a number of
repeat clients (for some, we have tailored the course to their
methods). The course is offered through the Project Management Institute World
Seminars
and the University of Toledo, too. We also have an advanced
requirements workshop that provides additional tools and coaching on
asking good questions, and on writing good requirements specifications.
Let one of our experienced mentors work with your
project team to coach you in the application of proper requirements capture
and specifying techniques. We roll up our sleeves and help get results and
transfer expert knowledge to your organization.
- Improving Quality of Requirements
- Catalyst has helped clients move their projects quickly into
execution. In our requirements walkthroughs (document review), we facilitate a
team review of existing documents and
process efforts to help the team assure that they will achieve the desired results.
Here are the typical levels of service for review of a requirements
document.
- * Level 1 - Catalyst performs a detailed inspection and issues a
written analysis.
* Level 2 - Catalyst performs a detailed inspection, issues a
written analysis, and then discusses the analysis with the project
analyst (usually by telephone)
* Level 3 - A comprehensive and ongoing coaching of the project
team.
- Performing Business
Process Analysis, Design, and Re-Engineering
- We
can help move you from the "as is" to the "to be."
- Performing Best Practices Research
- We can help you identify practices that can add speed and value to
your requirements engineering and management capabilities.
- Project Acceleration Workshops
- A team based accelerated planning
method. Can shorten project development time by 10-20%.
Catalyst brings experience in building
capability for capturing, specifying and managing requirements.
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