Discovery Phase
Service for Software Development Projects
50% of small businesses and startups do not precisely understand what their audience needs. Starting with the business idea, you don’t always know what exact business model to choose, what are potential risks and pitfalls, how to ensure monetization and test your product at the lowest cost. The project discovery phase conducted on time gives thoroughness to each stage of development.
Why do you need the Discovery Phase?
The detailed analysis by a team of considerate experts will transform your idea into a clear product vision or give a new life to your actual project. That is what is called a product discovery phase in software development.
You get valuable insights on preferable design, features, services that will be magnetic for your users:
Finalizing your vision, validating the idea, and ensuring the market fit
Identifying your business strategy
Predicting and reducing risks and roadblocks
Careful budget planning to avoid the loss
Defining goals and scope for the MVP, and well-developed UX prototype
Building the ground for extra funding for your project
The process of the discovery phase for software development
Who is the discovery team?
What does the Discovery team do?
- States the problem and clarify the value proposition
- Elicits the Business and User’s needs
- Defines:
- Persona-based on stakeholder’s assumptions
- Product Vision and Roadmapping
- Minimum Viable Product goals (hypotheses) and scope definition
- Looks at your product from the user’s perspective
- Proposes the Solution Architecture
- Designs UX prototype for the MVP
- Estimates the MVP release scope
How long does it take?
Depending on the project: from 1 week to 2 months.
What if you skip the Discovery Phase?
- Never-ending scope creeps
- Climbing cost
- Missed deadlines
- The project doesn’t meet your expectations
What are the discovery phase deliverables?
What deliverables does a discovery phase bring in the end?
And here’s what you will get after a discovery phase:
Product overview
- Problem statement
- Key functionality required for MVP
- Business objectives
Architecture decisions for product implementation
- Onclusion on product’s interoperability with other tools and systems
- Product’s physical structure overview
UI/UX Concept
- Product prototype representing the concept of user’s interaction with the product
To-do list
- Product backlog
- First release (MVP) sized backlog
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Frequently Asked Questions
Geniusee experiences in software development and discovery phase service for more than 5 years now, so we know some things that are not commonly spread.
First of all, you need to know that major target audience of software discovery phase services are startups and small companies. Yet, here come breaking news. Big companies also use this service during project development. Why so? Because using the discovery stage you can define the project scope, create a project roadmap, conduct proper market research and competitor analysis, grabbing some valuable ideas for UX/UI or product architecture.
Secondly, software development projects are impossible to tailor without software requirements specification (tech requirements, functional requirements, overall project requirements, etc.), clear vision of development process and project goals. Discovery phase helps to get a clear vision on business goals, create a development plan and align it with team composition, define scope of work and tech stack.
Last, but not least. You may skip creation of clickable prototype, jumping to MVP or POC, but you can’t do it without cost estimate, design concept (UX/UI) or competitors research. You now may tell that business analysis could deal with it too. Yes, it can. If we’re not talking about completely new software projects and products on utterly unknown markets. That actually is the most common point for big corporations to rely on the discovery phase of software development.
So the answer is simple. Anyone who needs it may benefit from discovery phase service for software development.
Usually, next comes the design stage and then the development team, solution architects, QA’s and DevOps engineers start doing their job.
If we get deeper, after the project discovery phase, we’re reevaluating and making a decision whether we’re settling the matter. Is the team composition perfect? Did we chose a technology stack that fits well enough to our needs and may guarantee scaling and project’s success? Are we good with planned development costs?
If you’re dealing with large and long-run software projects, consider including business analysts into the team. Project managers could deal with requirements management, but assuring project’s success requires constant analysis of context and solution reflection.
If we’re talking about people involved in the project discovery phase, the list is wider. For example, you will need a company representative or even a few. That could be a CEO or CTO, project manager or product owner.
If you’d like to get to know more about discovery phase service for software development, don’t hesitate to call us!
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