Solution Discovery for a Software Project
Maximize ROI with a well-planned project management discovery phase
Project discovery by RNDpoint is a crucial phase that gives you a confident head start in software development. We analyze your business idea and market landscape, considering your existing IT infrastructure and resources, to create a workable dev roadmap.
Discovery Phase: main stages
Our Discovery Services
We conduct thorough research on the existing technology and market demand based on the client’s individual project specifications and expectations.
Our team produces accurate estimates of the time, money, and human resources required to build your project based on the research findings and feature complexity.
We build a concise hierarchy of development tasks and related business processes to guide you through the process and help you organize it without delays or inefficiencies.
We organize all findings and planning stages into a comprehensive roadmap, breaking down your project by costs, resources, and deadlines for key deliverables.
You can easily optimize your discovery phase in consulting by teaming up with our analysts and applying handy tips and workflows they share with you.
Documentation we prepare during discovery phase
This document is created to lay out your project goals and narrow its scope and match the formulated goals with the client’s business needs.
It is based on the product’s goal and main features, singling out the technical requirements for its development and launch.
Here we detail the necessary services to build a product, with duties and responsibilities breakdown and evaluation metrics for every subcontractor.
This document explains all technical risks associated with your product’s development for every project phase and gives recommendations to minimize them.
Here we explain the process of your product’s testing as soon as its development is complete, with all test objectives and expectations.
After thorough research, we build a set of product wireframes to visualize its design and functionality agreed upon with the client.
This document presents the team structure’s estimates based on your feature and technology selection, with a convenient developer rate breakdown for budgeting.
It outlines the needed technical resources for your project’s launch and smooth functioning, such as a server, cybersecurity protections, etc., and explains their integration.
This document takes the project’s vision as the starting step and schedules all development work so that you get a neat, workable timeline for project work.
Here, we present a concise view of your product’s logical and physical architecture, with every component’s justification and technical overview.
The backlog takes a roadmap one step further and details every development task into simple, manageable subtasks organized by sequence and priority.
This document presents a coherent style guide for the project, with screens and sketches guiding further designer work on practical product design.
The plan includes a concise project concept with workflow details, development schedules, human resource requirements, and cost breakdowns.
Transform your project from a vague idea to a workable plan
Benefits of doing discovery with RNDpoint
Why discovery matters
Risk reduction
The development process comes with many risks when uncertainty is high. Discovery helps identify and eliminate those risks before they surface and paralyze your processes.
Better quality
If you perform inside-out project estimation and review before development, you’re sure to produce a superior-quality product without critical loopholes.
Sustainable partnerships
Having a precise set of requirements and metrics, you will be better positioned to evaluate the development team’s competence and ability to build your project.
Precise budgeting
No more surprises or guesswork with the project’s cost. You receive a concise breakdown of every feature’s development costs to choose an optimal, affordable function mix.
When is it time for discovery?
How much time will discovery take?
- Design wireframes (up to 10)
- An infrastructure architecture plan
- 2 design options
- MVP scope breakdown
- A roadmap with schedules and deliverables
- Design wireframes (up to 30)
- 2 infrastructure architecture options
- 3 design options
- MVP scope breakdown
- A roadmap with schedules and deliverables
- Software requirements
- Design wireframes (up to 50)
- Infrastructure architecture
- 3 design options
- MVP documentation
- A roadmap with schedules and deliverables
- Software requirements
Who will perform discovery work on your project?
We at RNDpoint entrust this strategically important task only to seasoned experts with years of industry expertise. Top-level employees with analytical skills, knowledge of your business landscape, and a strategic mindset are included in the discovery team.
Our discovery team
Project Manager
A PM guarantees smooth and productive interactions between the discovery team and the client and keeps the client in the loop about the task’s status and progression.
Solution Architect
An architect is responsible for practical architectural suggestions, prototyping work, and documentation based on the preliminary technological research findings.
Lead Software Developer
A development lead bridges the architect’s proposed suggestions with the development practice and plans the dev roadmap based on the given specifications.
Business Analyst
Analysts test the client’s idea to check its business value, marketability, and user value. They recommend features and designs in line with the current market trends.
UI/UX Designer
UX/UI experts conduct user research and produce detailed design prototypes to ensure the product’s user-centric design and usability.
Testimonials
We’re proud to share satisfied clients’ reviews of the discovery work we did on their projects.
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