how to make analysis

in uncertain environment

Short story about complete disaster, and how we succeeded

Egils Meiers 05.11.2013

• Egils Meiers• 20 years in IT• All roles in Software

development life cycle• More than 8 years in

management• Now - Research and

development project manager

About me

Background

• Project type – research• Analysis length – 3 Months• Team – 3 experts• Client – our organization• Objective – find better way how to

provide integration with our product, define business requirements for future development

• Identify stakeholders• Gather existing problems• Gather future process requirements• Develop clear vision for future

development

What was our plan

What we did

• Identified the stakeholder groups• Created profiles for each

stakeholder group• Identified the potential

respondents• Created survey to identify

problems and set goals• Conducted a survey

What we get

• Understanding of problem area – integration process

• Lots of different opinion about problems

• Almost every respondent gives to us a different answer about what can be improved

• Panic – because we did not see, what we must do further

So what's next

• We went to our partner RTU

• Discussed about situation• Identified method, which

can help us• Developed future

integration process for modeling

• Set up modeling workshop

Modeling

• 4 models – Concept, Problem, Goal and Process

• Detailed modeling for Problem and Goal models including dependencies

What was result

• Connect Problem and Goal models

• Three of goals solve 70% of problems

• There was no single solution, but a complex solution

Conclusion

• It is quite difficult to get common view, when is involved a lot of different parts

• Understanding of different points of view can help, but not necessary show better solution

• You must be ready that you can stuck

• When you stuck - try other methods to go further

Thanks for Your attention!

Questions?

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