To be successful, you need to know what the problem is, how you’re going to solve for it and who is going to be responsible along the way.
Allin teams are tailored to your specific needs, consistent with our “Four Team” approach, and we cover every aspect of the project life cycle. From conception to implementation, we’ll balance your timeline and budget to ensure the end result is what you need, when you need it. Our forward-thinking process not only addresses your current needs but also positions you for future growth and challenges.
At Allin Consulting, we view the project life cycle in distinct phases. Each phase of the life cycle produces information that allows teams to continue planning or executing toward success. This approach provides the traction to move the project forward while maintaining accountability throughout.
- Planning (identifying exactly what the problem is)
- User Analysis - who are the people who need the solution?
- Business Analysis - what are the users and stakeholders trying to accomplish?
- Functional Analysis - what services need to be available for success?
- Information Architecture - how will the content and functionality be best organized?
- Interaction Design – which user experience will work the best
- Executing (how we’ll solve for the what)
- Construct - how the solution needs to be built to be scalable and robust.
- Test - how the solution will be tested to guarantee it works as intended.
- Implement - how the solution will be made available to the user.
- Maintain - how the solution will be kept running and the users supported.
We start by looking at the people we are trying to serve. We take the time to ensure the actual need is identified. We figure out the services required to support the need. We organize the content and functionality to give it a logical structure. We ensure the interaction with the structure is helpful and easy to understand. Without a solid understanding and plan, a team can only hope to have a successful solution.
We finish by picking the solution which best satisfies the desired goals, developing a testing plan that guarantees the end user gets what they asked for and having a process for putting the solution into use with support. Because we took the time and performed the due diligence to come up with the plan, we know exactly how to implement the solution with a high degree of certainty that the end user will love the result.
Staying Agile
Being agile does not mean tossing the project life cycle out the window “because we don’t have time”. Allin intelligently abbreviates each step sufficiently to maintain timelines without sacrificing our most important tool - the process itself. We know how and when to start or reiterate the different phases of a life cycle to maximize speed and synergy. Often, projects struggle due to a lack of expertise or the reckless decision to forge ahead without a proper plan. The result is simply a gamble of valuable resources, money and time.