What Is Visualization?

What Is Visualization? Experiential Requirements Elicitation June 3, 2009

Welcome! Introduction Who is OneSpring (we’ll be brief, we promise) Brief Review of Traditional methods Visualization Why visualize? What about Visio, Photoshop, etc? What can & can’t be visualized? Tools The process is essential! Q&A Back to your regularly scheduled day © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 2

Your Expectations Use the Q&A tool to let us know any speciﬁc expectations you have for this session over the next couple of minutes. We’ll try to make sure to at least touch on them © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 3

Who We Are First company founded on Visualization First Visualization Process, The Stream Process™ Hundreds of Visualizations (aka simulations) Fortune 500 ~ Federal ~ Not for Proﬁt iRise Partner of the Year © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 4

A Universal Problem Current methods for deﬁning software & web-based projects just donʼt work! 66% of projects fail, run late, or are over budget. 53% of projects will incur cost increases of 189% of the original estimates. - Standish Group 70% of REWORK is attributed to correcting requirements errors. - META Group 30% of project costs are REWORK. - Forrester Research © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 6

The Root Causes The underlying problems are distilled into three main causes: Misunderstood product requirements due to ambiguity of written speciﬁcations. Lack of sufﬁcient information to support complex applications/ systems. Inability to experience a project with customers and stakeholders before development. © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 7

The Cost to Fix An error found during the coding process typically costs 10 times more to ﬁx than one found and ﬁxed at the requirements development stage. – Boehm (Software Engineering Economics) ~100x ~50x = OneSpringʼs involvement ~20x ~10x ~5x ~1x Requirements Design Coding Dev Test Acceptance Live Test © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 13

What Is Visualization? Experience your project requirements Like Rapid Prototyping but... Early in the requirements process No Coding required Collaborate with stakeholders like never before Get everyone on the same page © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 15

Why Visualize? Visualization along with a proper process can: Reduce rework by 45% or more Cut Project Timelines by 1/3 or more Improve Quality and User Satisfaction Drive Innovation & User Experience © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 16

Improve Quality & User Satisfaction Experience your project before any code has been written More time to focus on User Experience activities Research User proﬁle integration Interface design User testing © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 19

Drive Innovation Less time debating details=more time for new ideas More time for “outside the box” thinking Experiment with concepts without writing code More time to focus on leapfrogging the competition © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 20

What Can’t Be Visualized We haven’t yet found a type of project that can’t be visualized in some manner Certain aspects of projects are still documented inside the visualization Background Processes Performance Requirements Detailed Business Process Management © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 30

Tools A key ingredient to visualization is the use of a collaborative platform. This platform allows the team to rapidly visualize the application and solicit real-time feedback from stakeholders without the need of programming. The visualization platform of choice for OneSpring is iRise. © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 31

iRise iRise is the leading application visualization platform on the market today. iRise provides the beneﬁt of creating a highly realistic software or web-based application simulation without the need for programming. © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 32

The Process is Essential Visualization is not plug & play with existing processes For success you have prepare for some change management Methodology & Process Culture © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 34

An Improved Approach After years of experience, we’ve learned a better way… Our Approach Beneﬁts Eliminate confusion with a detailed • Reduce requirements cycle time • Eliminate project rework Visualization …before coding. Rapidly iterate and share your • Better collaboration requirements & design early and often • Drive innovation with stakeholders. • Reduce outsourcing risk Test and validate with consumers. • Improve adoption • Create desirable products © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 35

The Stream Process™ We call this approach the Stream Process™. The Stream Process™ is a methodology that offers companies a collaborative and highly- visual approach to creating superior products and solutions in less time, with reduced project re-work. This helps companies dramatically improve productivity, quality and customer satisfaction. Combines the right people and the right tools to deﬁne the right application. © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 36

Resources (AKA Shamless Self Promotion) iRise Webinar - Going Mobile June 18, 2009 1:00pm EDT Leveraging Visualization For Mobile Applications 10 iPhone Applications Visualized in 5 Weeks © 2009 OneSpring LLC. All Rights Reserved. www.onespring.net 39

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