What We Approach
UNCLEAR REQUIREMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS
Context
A business goal without a specification an engineer can build against.
A wish list that gets renegotiated mid-project.
Budget blowing up because scope was never defined.
This is the situation before a project begins.
You have the objective: automate this workflow, migrate that system, build this feature. But you do not have the functional requirements, the acceptance criteria, the constraints that protect your investment.
Without a specification, bids are hard to compare, volumes are estimates and timelines are hard to hold. And by the time the specification emerges, you are already paying for it.
Who feels this
- The Executive Sponsor who knows the goal but not the scope
- The Project Manager preparing an RFP who needs the requirements written to be built
- The CFO approving a budget without knowing what it will cover
- The Business Owner who has a vision but no technical translation of that vision
- Any leader about to commit budget to a project that hasn't been specified yet
You do not need a complete brief
You do not need to know what the specification should look like. You do not need to know which delivery model fits. You just need to know there is a way to write it before anyone builds.
That is where specification work begins.