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Project Management and Quality Assurance
Utilizing user scenario maps and corresponding user stories to create modular business requirements serves dual purposes: soliciting proposals from potential service providers and managing project development. This adaptable requirement structure allows for the prioritization of specific functionalities as per the market needs, facilitating the identification and sequencing of development blocks.
Many of our clients integrate this approach into their contracts, including a work structure based on user scenarios and respective evaluations by the developer, along with the agreement on Change Request (CR) mechanisms, and contingency measures for potential budget overruns. This encourages sprint-based development correlated with individual user stories. Furthermore, developers can furnish clients with a flexible delivery schedule for user stories, as our experience indicates the absence of a necessity for strict schedules.
Modular requirements enable the establishment of a functional development priority framework critical during the competitive software market launch. The flexibility allows the primary development of market-responsive features, enabling market testing and valuable client feedback collection. Meanwhile, less critical functionalities can be scheduled for subsequent development phases. An independent designer is instrumental here, devoid of persuading the client on complete functionality realization, thereby eliminating the motivation to extend billable hours.
Quality assurance is vital for solution alignment with the project and overall quality. This can be achieved either by involving the designer in quality control if they are part of project management or employing an impartial third party for independent quality control, a proven effective mechanism in software development projects, leveraging decades of cross-industry application.