Identify Business Value before Business Requirements

According to the 2015 Standish report, a mere 29 percent of software development projects are successful. Is it because developers are choosing the wrong tools and processes? Is it due to a lack of communication between business leaders and developer teams? Although these issues may contribute to the failure of a project, they do not accurately address why these projects fail time and again. Lisa Calkins says the main reason projects are unsuccessful is a lack of planning between the initial application idea and the rush to set feature requirements. Instead, software projects should be value driven rather than focused on specific requirements or features that may or may not deliver on the initial promise of a project. To help you ensure software development projects are on the track to success, Lisa shares a five-step process: identifying value, the discovery process, creating goals, evaluating outcomes, and measuring success. Learn how to take your software project from dead-end to success.