What Is Visualization?Experiential Requirements Elicitation

June 3, 2009

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Welcome!

Introduction

Who is OneSpring (we’ll be brief, we promise)

Brief Review of Traditional methods

Visualization

Why visualize?

What about Visio, Photoshop, etc?

What can & can’t be visualized?

Tools

The process is essential!

Q&A

Back to your regularly scheduled day

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Your Expectations

Use the Q&A tool to let us know any specific expectations you have for this session over the next couple of minutes.

We’ll try to make sure to at least touch on them

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Who We Are

First company founded on Visualization

First Visualization Process, The Stream Process™

Hundreds of Visualizations (aka simulations)

Fortune 500 ~ Federal ~ Not for Profit

iRise Partner of the Year

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Our Clients

A few of the clients we have been privileged to work with.

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A Universal Problem

66% of projects fail, run late, or are over budget.

53% of projects will incur cost increases of 189% of the original estimates.

- Standish Group

70% of REWORK is attributed to correcting requirements errors.

30% of project costs are REWORK.- Forrester Research

- META Group

Current methods for defining software & web-based projects just donʼt work!

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The Root Causes

Misunderstood product requirements due to ambiguity of

written specifications.

Lack of sufficient information to support complex applications/

systems.

Inability to experience a project with customers and stakeholders

before development.

The underlying problems are distilled into three main causes:

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Traditional Methods

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Traditional Methods

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Traditional Methods

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Traditional Methods

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Traditional Methods

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The Cost to Fix

An error found during the coding process typically costs 10 times more to fix than one found and fixed at the requirements development stage. – Boehm (Software Engineering Economics)

~1x

Requirements Design Coding Dev Test AcceptanceTest

Live

~5x

~10x

~20x

~50x

~100x

= OneSpringʼs involvement

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Visualization

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What Is Visualization?

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Experience your project requirements

Like Rapid Prototyping but...

Early in the requirements process

No Coding required

Collaborate with stakeholders like never before

Get everyone on the same page

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Why Visualize?

Visualization along with a proper process can:

Reduce rework by 45% or more

Cut Project Timelines by 1/3 or more

Improve Quality and User Satisfaction

Drive Innovation & User Experience

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Reduce Rework by 45%

Capture the right requirements the first time

Eliminate ambiguity

Improve collaboration

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Cut Project Timelines by 1/3

Less rework=faster development time

Less ambiguity=faster development time

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Improve Quality & User Satisfaction

Experience your project before any code has been written

More time to focus on User Experience activities

Research

User profile integration

Interface design

User testing

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Drive Innovation

Less time debating details=more time for new ideas

More time for “outside the box” thinking

Experiment with concepts without writing code

More time to focus on leapfrogging the competition

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What About Photoshop/Visio?

Two-dimensional

It is “visual”

But you can’t experience your project

Is still ambiguous

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What Can Be Visualized?

Just about any type of project can be visualized...

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Web Sites

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CRM

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Mainframe

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Mobile Applications

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Proof-of-Concepts

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Kiosks

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Example

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iAuto iRise Visualization

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What Can’t Be Visualized

We haven’t yet found a type of project that can’t be visualized in some manner

Certain aspects of projects are still documented inside the visualization

Background Processes

Performance Requirements

Detailed Business Process Management

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A key ingredient to visualization is the use of a collaborative platform.

This platform allows the team to rapidly visualize the application and solicit real-time feedback from stakeholders without the need of programming.

The visualization platform of choice for OneSpring is iRise.

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Tools

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iRise is the leading applicationvisualization platform on the market today.

iRise provides the benefit of creating a highly realistic software or web-based application simulation without the need for programming.

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iRise

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Tools

Other players include

Axure

Serena

Blueprint

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The Process is Essential

Visualization is not plug & play with existing processes

For success you have prepare for some change management

Methodology & Process

Culture

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An Improved Approach

Eliminate confusion with a detailed

Visualization

…before coding.

Rapidly iterate and share your requirements & design early and often

with stakeholders.

Test and validate with consumers.

• Reduce requirements cycle time

• Eliminate project rework

After years of experience, we’ve learned a better way…

Our Approach Benefits

• Better collaboration

• Drive innovation

• Reduce outsourcing risk

• Improve adoption

• Create desirable products

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The Stream Process™

We call this approach the Stream Process™.

The Stream Process™ is a methodology that offers companies a collaborative and highly-visual approach to creating superior products and solutions in less time, with reduced project re-work.

This helps companies dramatically improve productivity, quality and customer satisfaction. Combines the

right peopleand the

right tools to define the

right application.

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Q&A

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Resources (AKA Shamless Self Promotion)

Subscribe to our Video Podcast - Insights

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Resources (AKA Shamless Self Promotion)

iRise Webinar - Going Mobile

June 18, 2009

1:00pm EDT

Leveraging Visualization For Mobile Applications

10 iPhone Applications Visualized in 5 Weeks

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Thank you!

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