The deliverables you produce during the blastoff provide the basis for assessing the viability of your project. When you take a hard look at what these deliverables are telling you, you can decide whether it makes good business sense to press the button and launch the requirements project. Consider your deliverables:
The point is to make an objective decision based on facts, not on boundless enthusiasm or giddy optimism. For some reason it is always very difficult to stop a project once it is under way and has consumed some resources. Ed Yourdon refers to these doomed ventures as "death march" projectsthey stagger along for years when most of the people involved know that they were never viable enough to have been started in the first place. A little consideration at this stage can prevent poor projects from being started and give good projects a flying start. |