Requirements: Creating a Vision Document

In the rush to get things done, it is easy to overlook the importance of writing vision statements for your projects. Creating a vision document is often thought of as time consuming and repetitious of various emails, documents, meeting notes and other methods that your users employ to convey their needs to IT. But the vision statement is more than just a compilation of user requests. It helps you to identify and focus on your stakeholders and understand their real issues and needs. It serves as a communications vehicle to playback to your users what you understand their requirements to be. And it reminds you to evaluate a number of points that are easy to overlook when describing what your project is to accomplish. Created at the start of a project, the vision statement is a foundation document from which the rest of the system develops.

OtB can help your analysts and project managers understand the importance of a vision statement in the development of a project, the appropriate information to include in a vision document and audience for which the vision is prepared. OtB can create a vision document template, customized to suit your development environment, that you can use on future project scoping efforts. And OtB can review existing vision documents to suggest improvements that will help insure project success. Contact OtB to discuss your specific needs.