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Practice 04 · Technology Consulting

Clear requirements, sound architecture and a plan that can be delivered.

Before money is committed to a system, we help you define what it must do, how it should be built and how it will be delivered.

What we deliver
  • Requirements documentation
  • Solution architecture
  • Implementation planning
Why it matters

Most failed technology projects fail before a line of code is written: in vague requirements, unexamined architecture or plans nobody believes. We work on those first.

  • Grounded in delivery

    Our recommendations come from teams that build, secure and run systems.

  • Written to be used

    Documents your procurement, technical and leadership teams can all work from.

  • Usable by any delivery team

    Specifications and plans stand on their own, whoever builds the system.

Challenges

Where we help most

  1. A mandate without a specification

    Leadership has set a goal; nobody has defined what the system must do.

  2. Vendor proposals that cannot be compared

    Each bid answers a different question, because the question was never written down.

  3. An architecture that grew by accident

    Systems were added one at a time, and now nobody can change one safely.

  4. A plan nobody believes

    Timelines were set before scope, so the plan slips from the first week.

Capabilities

What we deliver

  • Requirements documentation

    What the system must do, for whom and under which constraints, agreed with the people who will use it.

    • Requirements specification
    • User stories
    • Acceptance criteria
  • Solution architecture

    How the system should be built and integrated, with the reasoning behind each decision.

    • Architecture diagrams
    • Decision records
    • Integration map
  • Implementation planning

    Scope, milestones, dependencies and risks, in a plan that can be procured and delivered.

    • Milestone plan
    • Risk register
    • Procurement-ready scope
Approach

How a consulting engagement runs

Short, defined engagements that end in documents you can act on.

  1. Step 1: Understand

    Goals, users, constraints and existing systems.

  2. Step 2: Define

    Requirements written and agreed.

  3. Step 3: Design

    Architecture options and a recommendation.

  4. Step 4: Plan

    Milestones, dependencies and risks.

  5. Step 5: Hand over

    Documents walked through with your teams.

Outputs

What you receive

Requirements specification
Agreed with users and owners
Architecture and decision records
Options, trade-offs and the recommendation
Implementation plan
Milestones, dependencies and risks
Procurement-ready scope
Comparable bids from any supplier
Industries

Where we apply this work.

Starting something new?

Tell us the goal and the constraints; we will help you define the rest.