{"id":1759,"date":"2023-03-16T02:20:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T08:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armia.com\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2023-03-16T02:20:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T08:20:58","slug":"why-project-discovery-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armia.com\/blog\/why-project-discovery-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Discovery – Why It is Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imagine, you have a new software development project to start, and you are responsible for the product delivery. In such a case before your team begins its development, it’s necessary to understand whether the product is able to compensate for the expenses and resources (people, time, money) for its implementation. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how can you ensure this result?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want your product to fulfill its purpose, the simple method is project discovery. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Project Discovery?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Project discovery is the process of collecting the project information, market and audience for the developer to understand about its goal, vision, scope and limitations. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discovery process helps to understand the needs and requirements of the end-users (clients, users, stakeholders). The SRS (System Requirements Specification) part of the process includes important information for development like features, deliverables, and so on and hence can analyze the key objectives of the project.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually, the process involves project managers, team leads, developers, designers, business analysts, account managers. They help with SRS, to build a wireframe prototype. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project life cycle has five stages: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Initiation<\/span><\/li>
  2. Planning<\/span><\/li>
  3. Execution <\/span><\/li>
  4. Control <\/span><\/li>
  5. Closure<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    And a project discovery has 5 phases:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Define your business goals<\/span><\/li>
    2. Identify how you will measure success<\/span><\/li>
    3. Conducting user research<\/span><\/li>
    4. Identifying customer journey<\/span><\/li>
    5. Review the competition<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      Why you need Project Discovery?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      As we discuss in the beginning, Imagine you have an app idea, and you know how it should be, what it looks like and what does it should do. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But your deadline is tight and you have no time to take a chance for project discovery. In this case, you will give the project to a software company with a fixed budget and deadline. The developer will accept the project and your requirements and you will receive the finished product before the deadline. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Finally, you got your app with all features and great quality. Now its time for the launch and wait for new visitors. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      After analyzing the analytics and statistics for a couple of months, you will get to know that your visitors are not happy to use your perfectly crafted app. The conversion of your service is lower than your expectations. You have already spent a huge amount on this app which doesn’t return the investment and now you can’t spend more on its further development. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      What went wrong here?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Just because you got your perfectly constructed app within time will never result in the success. For the success of your app, other factors are involved. The key to success is understanding and proper knowledge. If the development team doesn’t understand the vision and requirements of users of the project, it is not possible to construct the app as you expected. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      So, during software development<\/a>, there are many decisions you have to make.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Project discovery is the best chance for the development team to understand more about the project regarding what to deliver and why to deliver. This single process will help the software development team to know how to merge users, goals, vision along with their needs and wants.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Some might think they don’t have enough time and budget for a project discovery. When you jump right into development without any knowledge about the project, then it will result in failures.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The same happens when you neglect the project discovery phase for the sake of saving time. You have to make many decisions for a huge impact on your project. You will get nothing by constructing an app quickly without proper preparation. It simply ends the future of your project.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Once the project discovery phase is complete, the outputs will be crucial. You will get:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n