Discovery service
This initial development phase involves analysing the client's ideas and business vision, determining the basic commercial requirements, listing the necessary technical stack, determining the budget, and planning the development process step-by-step to significantly reduce risks.
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Aspects
This phase includes several aspects:
Competitor Analysis
This stage is crucial because it allows you to objectively assess your competitors and analyze their activities to understand the value of their products and shortcomings. This allows you to avoid certain mistakes in the development of your project and create a competitive product.
Target audience research
Target audience analysis is essential because you can clearly define the purpose of the future product, which should solve the main pains of users. To assess the viability of a digital solution and its market potential, it is possible to create and test an MVP.
Define the business purpose
It is vital to conduct a thorough analysis and clearly define the purpose of the business to be followed to prevent project failure and budget overruns. Besides, a well-defined business purpose contributes to effective marketing and flourishing partnerships.
Cost analysis
Improper budget planning or a severe shortage of funds are some of the main reasons why companies fail. Consequently, it is important to plan every stage of development to consider all risks and prevent budget overruns.
Why Do You Need the Agile Discovery Phase? 3 Reasons to Consider
This phase allows you to take a consistent approach to the development process to build a startup on time and within budget.
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Creation of detailed project documentation
Project documentation is a roadmap for your future digital product. It allows you to structure your team and plan all the stages of development. Thus, you get a document that regulates all the necessary resources at different stages (design, development, testing, and project management). This roadmap allows you to control the process and keep it in a consistent state.
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Design of UX Prototypes
Design of UX Prototypes A prototype file is a monochrome, low-fidelity version of an application design based on requirements documents. This file provides the program's basic functionality and does not display visual components. Prototypes are needed to verify that the design can be built according to requirements, and also allows you to focus on enhancing the user experience.
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Test the Сompliance of Your Expectations and Developers’ Deliveries
At this stage, it is crucial to have bilateral talks between the customer and the development team about the project. Our team makes sure to discuss everything: from the concept of the future product to potential problems during development and after launch. Besides, during this phase, we provide an estimate of the project cost.
Benefits of the Discovery Phase
If you conduct the agile discovery phase of the project properly, you will achieve significant success in the business and gain certain advantages.
Cost Reduction
According to small business failure statistics, 18% of companies fail because of pricing issues. Proper documentation, team selection, and development approach will help reduce the cost of the development process and create a competitive product.
Risk management
Remember that creating something new is always a risk. You should analyze all possible risks at the initial stage to avoid delays in bringing the product to the market and increasing the budget. With the agile discovery stage, you will be able to save money and meet the deadline for the project.
Idea validation
The discovery phase of a software project will help you understand whether the target audience really needs the digital solution you are offering.
Team formation
Some people assume that a lack of alignment within a team can negatively affect the work of the team, as well as the success of the entire project. During the discovery phase, we assemble a team according to the client’s needs and project requirements and make up a well-agreed plan.
Set business goals
During the product discovery phase, you will get a clear vision of the final product and the tasks it should solve. This will help you optimize the entire process.
How Much Will a Product Discovery Phase Cost?
The cost of the discovery phase of a project on average ranges from $5000 up to $15,000.
There is a pretty simple formula behind these numbers. Pricing of a discovery phase is 10% out of a development budget. After the initial discussion of the idea, the developers already have a rough idea of what is to be created and how it should work.
Therefore, the price of the discovery stage can tell you in advance about the price of the final product – an MVP or a large-scale application.
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Discovery team
Here are the most important professionals who can easily handle the entire discovery phase of your software project.
Project manager
Business analyst
Solution architect
UX/UI designer
Backend, frontend, or mobile developers
Marketing manager
Process
Depending on the company, the workflow of the product discovery phase may differ. However, we would like to outline the most common stages of the product discovery phase.
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Interview with the Stakeholders
This phase involves an interview with the founder (business or product owner) to understand the overall concept of the product, as well as what makes it different from the competition. After obtaining all the necessary information, the discovery phase begins.
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Discovery Workshops
At this stage, specialists conduct an in-depth analysis of all the information received, as well as determine the main goals, requirements, and business objectives.
The initial technical requirements (workflow and technologies) are developed based on the business requirements. After a comprehensive analysis of the potential and prospects of the future product, developers make the final choice.
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Customer Analysis
During this stage, a general analysis of the client is carried out. It will be necessary to understand how much the future product will be needed by customers. To do this, a whole group of aspects should be checked:
Here are some of the aspects that must be checked:
* Customer Profile
* Demographics
* The buying process
* Problems and pain points
Particular attention should be paid to customers’ pain points because the product should offer a solution to their problems.
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Competitor Analysis
During this stage, a general analysis of the client is carried out. It will be necessary to understand how much the future product will be needed by customers. To do this, a whole group of aspects should be checked:
Here are some of the aspects that must be checked:
* Customer Profile
* Demographics
* The buying process
* Problems and pain points
Particular attention should be paid to customers’ pain points because the product should offer a solution to their problems.
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Creation of SRS
Software requirements specifications (SRS) are descriptions of the future software in the form of user stories. This documentation includes the application workflow, user paths, key functions, roles, and necessary technologies for the back-end, front-end, and marketing.
During the project discovery phase, the necessary documentation is developed and used by the team to visualize the functionality of the future platform and create the user experience.
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Prototyping and Wireframes
Wireframes help the team understand and interpret stakeholder expectations. They visualize the workflow and make it easier for devs to understand it and modify it if necessary. UX wireframes also improve platform workflow and user experience.
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Project Blueprint
The final stage of the discovery phase is the creation of project blueprints, which are a collection of the deliverables of the previous phases. They help to make sure that all processes are completed within the stipulated time frame. Usually, blueprints contain the technical requirements for the project and other aspects:
* Project scope and timeline
* Technical details and project requirements
* Cost estimation
* Milestones
* Deadlines
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Clients say about us
Yojji successfully delivered the project within schedule. They demonstrated excellent project management via weekly sprint demos and promptly made adjustments based on the client's feedback. Their responsiveness and collaborative attitude were key elements of their work.
Julian Leung
Product Manager - A Matter Of Design | Property Tech & Artificial Intelligence
5.0
Yojji was an instrumental part of the client’s team, working closely with them to achieve the product’s success. The team was very collaborative and timely, and their performance was amazing. Additionally, their resources were experienced, professional, and enjoyable to work with.
Alon Zion
Former Co-Founder, Vala
5.0
Yojii is impressive both in quality of development work as well as their commitment. Strong focus on delivery, highly technical personnel, flexible approach that allows for rapid development. Strong processes that allow for solid controls.
Rohit Mahajan
Executive, Performlive Inc
5.0
We’re very happy with the way that Yojji works, which is why we’ve spent so much money and engaged them for such a long time. We treat them as employees in regard to responsibilities and expectations, and they haven’t disappointed us.
Noam Nevo
Co-founder of OSU
5.0
As a company, we find Yojji to be excellent development partners - we cannot recommend them more highly and will be very happy to continue working with them in the future.
Gareth Reese
Marketing Manager
5.0
They are really nice people with excellent technical backgrounds.
Bjorn Beyersdorff
CEO, Founder
5.0
We used Agile project management methodology and were in contact with the team and project manager daily.
Arvind Sedha
Software Development Director
5.0
They all had a super positive outlook and were dedicated to getting the work completed to a high standard.
Philip Black
CEO
5.0
Yojji has delivered an accessible product with thorough consideration for the client's requirements. Users have commented on the platform's user-friendliness and speed. Moreover, the team is easy to communicate with and provides frequent updates. Their development and design skills are impressive.
Lisa Ross
VP of Experience & Tech, Avenue
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