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Discovery

Understanding the Problem

Discovery is an important step in any project. It prioritizes researching a problem, investigating context, and exploring alternatives. This helps to ensure that the solution being built is both necessary and the best available option.

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Discovery Techniques

Analyzing Risks

Risks are an inevitable part of making business changes. This guide is a helpful tool in recognizing and understanding the risks involved in a project before they become issues.

Conducting Risk Analysis

This is a more formal follow-up guide to Analyzing Risks.

Assessing Proposal Complexity

This guide will help you conceptualize how much effort a proposed project will likely take prior to beginning. This will allow stakeholders to assess how worthwhile a venture is before choosing to invest resources.

Business Context Model

Use this guide to build a model of the affected business area. This will provide necessary context for the proposed change.

DOTMLPF-P Analysis

This is a specific type of change analysis created by the Department of Defense to analyze a proposed change from multiple perspectives: Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership/Education, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy. If these perspectives sound applicable to your project, this guide will be a useful tool.

Recognizing Change

This guide is helpful to reference at the start of a project. It will help you to prepare for changes throughout the process, which can be hard to notice.

Conducting Root Cause Analysis

Understanding the root cause of an issue or need for change is a valuable way to start a project. This guide will help facilitate that process.

Align Change Outcomes to Enterprise Strategy

This guide will help you ensure that the project outcomes are going to help further the overall goals of the enterprise. This is important in providing justification for a business change.

Discovery Tools

Proposal Complexity Tool

This spreadsheet will help guide the process of determining the complexity of your project

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