Agile Investment - Discovery Phase Checklist
During the Discovery Phase
- Approved ‘concept’ gains definition
- High-level analysis leveraging concept/problem definition and business case
- Specific user-focused and, possibly, technology-focused problems are defined for exploration
- Strategic direction and platform capabilities, e.g. analysis on strategic direction of IT investment, leveraging existing solutions, etc.
- High-level wireframes, user engagement, interviews, etc.
Outputs from the Discovery Phase
- Problem Statement
- Completed Proof of Concept (PoC) request form
- PoC scope defined
- Approach defined for PoC
- PoC Measures of Success
- High-level features prioritized
- Technical requirements to conduct PoC are identified and acquired, if PoC is to be pursued
- Key personnel resources and skill sets identified and secured
- Committed Team Member & Stakeholder participation
- Product Owner from the Business Team identified and committed
- Assigned Scrum Master
- Agile coaching support and guidance approved
- Users
- Types of users of the new request identified (e.g. Employees only, employees and contractors, partners and public, etc)
- Number of people the request will serve is estimated?
- Type of user roles defined (e.g. One type of user, user and administrators, more than 2 types of users, etc.)
- Data
- Type of data the request will work with identified? (e.g. No Data, Structured Data OR/AND Unstructured Data)
- Condition of the data specified? (e.g. format, data size, frequency of capture, current storage)
- Security
- PII or Payment Card Information secutiry need determined (e.g. credit card numbers)
- Environment and Integration
- Need for integration with other systems identified