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Software requirementsAn award-winning solution
When
WISDM started working with an Australian water and sewer utility
to define the requirements for a customer services system, the project
was 18 months behind schedule. Consultants guided an employee team
through the WISDM Requirements Process, and a new project manager
used the results to cut the development team from 125 to 25 people
and complete the software. The new product won the
Australian Software of the Year Award and is now sold
internationally.
Streamlining through teamwork A financial institution
thought it would take a year to define 17,500 business rules for
comparing incoming transactions (inquiries and maintenance) with
data in a terra-byte database, then using the transactions to combine,
update, and purge data. A WISDM consultant recognized that many
of the business rules could be defined in an improved data dictionary,
and many were redundant. WISDM facilitated a team of managers and
software developers to pare the rules to 350, then helped employees
compose, document, and review the rules in 15 days.
Finding a way to succeed A worldwide oil
rig manufacturer paid three large consulting firms $6.5 million
to define and build requirements for materials handling software;
all three failed. WISDM assembled a group of company employees,
and, using the facilitated team method, helped them develop requirements
for a unique system in just 20 days, and, using the requirements,
modified a vendors system in just six months. They have sold the
system several times to recover development costs.
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