Deep Discovery
What is NextAge’s Deep Discovery?
NextAge's Deep Discovery is a detailed planning process for new projects. It’s a crucial preparatory phase that ensures a deep understanding of each client’s needs and goals before development begins. By conducting a detailed requirements analysis, hosting collaborative workshops, and producing comprehensive documentation, we lay out everything needed to build a well-structured project. The result is a well-defined plan that helps to prevent common issues such as lack of clarity, rework, delays, and budget overruns.
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Step by step of Deep Discovery NextAge
Immersion (What)
We dive deep into the client’s business to fully understand what needs to be done and what the final goal is. This process allows us to identify the project’s specific requirements.
Immersion (How)
Once we understand the client’s needs, we offer recommendations that balance the available budget with the pros and cons of each approach. Here, we define how the project will be executed.
Detailed Analysis
We document a well-defined and accurate scope to minimize the risk of developing something that doesn’t meet expectations or exceeds the initial budget and timeline.
Estimation
After the documentation is finalized, NextAge provides a time and cost estimate for delivering the proposed solution.
Expectation Alignment
NextAge can either take on full development or work as a strategic partner, assisting the client’s internal team to ensure effective project management from start to finish.
Have you ever faced these problems?
- Your project kicked off without a clear vision of what needed to be done, leading to confusion and unnecessary rework.
- You’ve faced unexpected changes to the project scope, compromising deadlines and inflating costs.
- Ineffective communication between stakeholders and the technical team has caused misalignment and confusion.
- Your project is constantly exposed to avoidable risks due to insufficient planning
- Bugs and issues are being discovered too late, leading to costly delays.
How can NextAge’s Deep Discovery service help your company?
NextAge’s Deep Discovery stands out for its ability to deeply understand a client’s needs, providing in-depth analysis and a well-defined scope. This solid foundation reduces risks during the execution phase. Additionally, this Deep Discovery process helps identify and resolve potential errors and bugs early on, ensuring smoother project development and preventing future issues. By fostering clear communication and close collaboration with clients, through workshops and detailed documentation, all expectations are aligned from the outset. This avoids unwanted surprises like unexpected costs. In short, NextAge’s Deep Discovery service offers security, precision, and peace of mind, allowing companies to focus on their strategic goals with confidence.
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Deep Discovery plays a key role in preventing common problems like lack of clarity, unexpected scope changes, inefficient communication, and budget overruns. By doing so, we minimize risks, prevent errors, and ensure the project is completed on time and within budget
We organize collaborative workshops that involve all stakeholders, such as clients, technical teams, managers, suppliers, etc. This ensures that everyone shares a common understanding of the project’s objectives, avoiding miscommunication and helping the team move in the same direction.
The duration of Deep Discovery depends on the complexity of the project. Typically, the process takes several weeks, during which we follow all five stages mentioned earlier.
Yes, NextAge’s Deep Discovery is flexible enough to be adapted to projects of any size and complexity. Whether it’s a small-scale initiative or a large corporate project, our process provides the necessary clarity and accuracy to drive success.
Deep Discovery tackles risks, errors, and bugs right from the start, allowing for preventive measures to be implemented before problems occur. This proactive approach helps prevent deviations, delays, and unexpected costs.
Client involvement is critical during NextAge’s Deep Discovery process. We collaborate closely, ensuring the client actively participates in discussions to ensure that their needs and goals are fully understood and accurately reflected in the project scope.
No, NextAge’s Deep Discovery doesn’t replace a product team. Instead, it complements the product team’s work by providing detailed analysis and a clear definition of the project scope before development begins. Deep Discovery ensures that all project requirements and goals are clearly identified and documented, giving the product team a solid foundation to work from.
NextAge’s Deep Discovery doesn’t perform the same role as a Product Owner, but the two roles can complement each other. While the Product Owner focuses on defining and prioritizing product features throughout its lifecycle, Deep Discovery concentrates on the project’s initial phase, providing a detailed scope and clear understanding of requirements and objectives. When working together, Deep Discovery offers the Product Owner a strong and well-documented foundation, making it easier to build and manage the product backlog effectively.
Get in touch with NextAge today and discover how deep discovery can take your business to the next level.
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