Deliver organizational impact, not a feature list.

Why Discovery?

Delivering the right product starts with understanding needs.

Discovery is a multi-step offering that is designed to figure out exactly what your project needs to deliver value. It helps us avoid building costly, high-effort features into your product that don’t bring much value to your organization; conversely, it helps us discover the features that bring real ROI to your product.

Today, 90% of our custom product development projects involve a Discovery Phase – even for clients who come back to us for new projects. Actually, our Discovery process is so proven that we wrote a whole book about it. The Discovery Phase is a smaller, quicker engagement that gets us centred and on the right path, and dictates features, cost and timeline for the following Design & Build phase.

What to Expect

Understand users, business outcomes, features, effort & priority.

In 2012, the University of Oxford conducted a study based on over 5,000 IT projects. They found that, on average, “large IT projects run 45% over budget and 7% over time while delivering 56% less value than predicted. Software projects run the highest risk of cost and schedule overruns.” The reasons these projects fail is due to a lack of proper Discovery up front. We’ve engineered our process to reduce the chance of failure, and drive up your odds for success.

Services can include:

1. Audit
2. User research
3. Technology research
4. User personas
5. Architecture and content workshops
6. User story generation & prioritization
7. Acceptance criteria creation
8. Moodboarding exercises
9. Workflow mapping workshop
10. Architecture diagrams

Interested? Fill out the form below, or email sales@paper-leaf.com and let’s get started!