Project Details

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Project objectives

What are your goals in developing this system?

Who are the key stakeholders and users? Do their goals differ? If so, how?

How do the system goals map to business goals?

What is the most important business goal of the system?

Will the system change the way you are doing things now?

Will the system help you be more efficient? How?

What are the system deliverables?

What will the new system accomplish that is not currently accomplished manually or with other systems?

What will the new system do?

Is there any already existing system or systems that require additional changes? Is this project a brand new project?

If there is an already existing system or systems, what programming languages, technologies, and frameworks do they use?

What programming languages, technologies, and frameworks should the new system use? Which processes lead you to those choices?

Scoping and future needs

What business requirements will this system address?

What information do you need from this system that you don't have now?

Is any of this data currently captured in any other system?

How would you like to see this information?

What functionality do you need from the system?

Is the data and/or functionality shared by other (many) business areas? If so, which?

If the reports were dynamic, what would they do differently?

How much historical information is required?

Current problems

What are the current problems facing the system today?

What problems should this system solve?

Do you have to do things manually that you would like to automate?

Do you have performance problems that need to change?

Do you have functional limitations that you'd like to change?

Are you using packages that force you to constrain your business functionality to the boundaries of the package?

Which reports do you currently use? What data on the report is important? How do you use the information?

Are there specific bottlenecks to getting at information?

How do you analyze the information you currently receive? What type of data is used?

How do you currently get the data? How often do you get new data?

What type of ad hoc analysis do you typically perform? Who requests ad hoc information? What do you do with the information?

Users

Who will be using the system?

What are the titles and roles of the people who will use the system?

What are their levels of expertise?

Criteria for success

What is most important for success of the application?

What do we need to accomplish to make this project successful?

What do we need to change to make this project successful?

What buy-in do we need?

Are we lacking any critical elements such as budget, resource allocation, or support?

What are training considerations for developers and users?

High level functionality

What will the process do that you are doing manually now?

If using purchased packages, what do they do?

What will this process/function do that is entirely new?

Are there related processes/functions within the scope of this process? (list these)

How do these processes/functions interact with each other?

What is the level of complexity of each process/function?

Are there other systems/projects that must interface? (What are they?)

What is the functional core of this process?

What are the priorities for this process?

Constraints

Are there time constraints in developing the process/function? What are they?

Are there time constraints in deploying the process/function? What are they?

Are there any dependencies on other systems in completing the system? Please specify.

Are there budget constraints in developing this process/function? How much?

Are there resource constraints in developing the process/function? (in-house expertise available)?

Do we have management and user commitment and buy-in?

Are there technical constraints to developing this process/function? What are they?

Budget and costs

What is the total budget for this project?

Are there any budget constraints?

Are there any extra costs that are not included in the budget?

Is this project intended to be a one-off or would it need longer term support or maintenance?