Capiro's Goal Analysis and other Pre-Project Services

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Facilitating workshops to establish business goals for product or service

Deliverables: A documented mutually consistent set of goals agreed with all relevant stakeholders.

Duration: Typically several days although this can be extended in complex situations or when it is difficult to get agreement among the stakeholders.

Capiro resources: Typically one or two highly experienced facilitators.

Facilitating creation of programme and project terms of reference

The business analyst or requirements engineer can assist the project manager in formulating the terms of reference for the project. Analysts and project managers have a mutual concern in this area; analysts have a particular insight that assists in this task.

Terms of reference will include the following:

  • Objectives - For the project and for the deliverables.
  • Scope: What's in and what's out, with reference, where relevant, to iterations and releases. 
  • Deliverables: The thing that will be defined by the requirements.
Undertaking business or feasibility studies

Recommend and implement procedures processes and techniques for running business and feasibility studies.

Provide interim business analysts, requirements, specialists and project managers to run business and feasibility studies.

Planning and Management of Requirements Effort in the Project

Supply of interim project managers and lead business analysts / architects to manage all aspects of requirements engineering, business process analysis and other aspects of business analysis throughout the programme or project.

A Capiro specialism is requirements driven project management.

Assisting with project and quality plans

Provide interim business analysts, requirements specialists and project managers to create or to assist in project and quality planning.

Where required these plans can comply with guidelines from Prince 2 TM or the PMI; Capiro has both Prince 2 TM and PMI certified consultants

Requirements grid