/ Business analysis, Brisbane
Senior business analysts for stalled programs
Our analysts pin down what the business needs and what the technology can do, so the date your sponsor holds you to is one you can keep.
The scope keeps moving, the vendor keeps quoting variations and the sponsor has started asking hard questions. That usually means the requirements were never pinned down.
Our senior analysts work inside your program, agree the requirements with the business and leave them documented, so each scope change is a visible decision.
A free 30-minute call with a senior consultant, whether or not we work together.
Delivering programs since 2010
8 sectors, from mining to professional sport
Our team has worked on programs for Metagenics, Aurizon Network, Suncorp, Origin Energy, the Hunter Valley Coal Chain Coordinator, Orica, Big W, Griffith University and The University of Queensland.
Many stalled programs have a requirements problem underneath
Each moving requirement turns into a variation, a slipped date or a sponsor losing patience.
When a vendor variation arrives, we price it against a requirement the business signed off, and your sponsor decides whether the date moves.
How we work on your program
Get to the real need
We take the program back to what the business needs and what the technology can do today.
Agree what's safe to commit
We write requirements the business signs off and tell you what's safe to commit to next.
Leave it documented
We record the requirements and the decisions behind them, so delivery has one reference when scope is questioned.
What you get
Analysts who've shipped programs
Senior analysts who've been in the room when a go-live went wrong and helped fix it.
Requirements that hold
Scope and requirements written clearly enough that variations become decisions you make on purpose.
Business and technology in one language
Analysts who brief the CFO and the lead engineer in the same week.
A plain answer on the fix
Whether the fix is a changed process or one task automated, we'll say which.
/ Why Softwired
Why sponsors bring in our analysts
Senior analysts with delivery behind them
James Hallam, our Principal Consultant, has 20 years across software development, business analysis and project management. Our analysts have shipped programs and worked through go-lives that went wrong, so they write requirements a delivery team can build to.
Each requirement tied to the business case
We link each requirement to the benefit it supports in the business case. When a vendor quotes a variation, your sponsor sees which benefit it touches before approving it.
Signs this is the right next step
- A program is stuck and the requirements keep moving.
- You're scoping a major investment and need to know what you're committing to.
- The vendor is quoting variations faster than the program is moving.
The questions we get before we start.
A workshop facilitator runs the meeting. A senior BA shapes the requirements that come out of it and gets each one signed off. You end up with a documented list of requirements, each with a business owner and the decision behind it.
Alongside them. We work with whoever’s in place: product managers, solution architects, vendor BAs and internal SMEs. Often the existing BA stays on requirements detail while we shape the bigger picture: what the business needs, what’s safe to commit to and how to unblock what’s stuck.
Both, depending on what’s broken. Sometimes the right answer is to fix the process before you automate it. Sometimes the platform is fine and the requirements are wrong. We look at both before recommending either, and we’ll tell you which one you’ve got.
Work that often runs alongside
Stuck on requirements?
Bring us the program that's stuck. In a free 30-minute call, a senior consultant reviews the requirements, names the one most likely to move and tells you what to pin down first.
