Business challenge
One of the most common challenges facing software development teams involves inaccurate, incomplete or inconsistent requirements. This is not only an issue for IT but also for the business—leading potentially to the delivery of a system that nowhere near meets actual requirements.
Solution
To improve requirements definition, your business and IT teams must work together in a smart way. We have a long record of helping customers bridge the IT/business gap to ensure accurate, usable and efficient requirements. As the father of use cases, Ivar Jacobson himself has more than 30 years’ experience eliciting requirements and documenting them through the use-case approach. His thought leadership and knowledge in this space is captured in our practices.
What’s required first and foremost is change. At Ivar Jacobson International, we have a number of practices that help us implement change in a way that is practical, efficient and easy to understand. Change is a real challenge. To help build support for it, our consultants join your team and lead by example, demonstrating the value of change.
How we work with you
Typically, our consultants join your analyst team and work with both business and IT representatives. We lead a number of requirements-gathering workshops to define the scope and vision of the project, and to identify detailed requirements as well as the tests needed to verify them. Guiding your team, will help you produce:
- A project vision
- Use case models
- Use case descriptions
- Scenarios
- Test cases
- Prototypes
We implement an iterative approach that promotes close collaboration with all stakeholders and regular deliveries of executable code.
How this benefits you
- Development of accurate requirements
- Development of a usable solution
- Stakeholder involvement that promotes close collaboration and in turn helps achieve success