What is HoQ-e
HoQ-e is a tool of the ZDLC family that enables requirements to be reliably collected, validated, prioritized and used for transparent decision making, thus enabling higher quality and more rapid outcomes. HoQ-e enables systematic refinement of the requirements also called as the drill down process of high level requirements into detailed and specific requirements.
Key Features
- Based on a proven methodology used in the manufacturing domain as part of Quality Function Deployment (precursor to Lean and Six Sigma)
- Enforces structured approach for the capture and representation of requirements.
- Employs graphical representation of requirements for intuitive review and reconciliation.
- Allows traceability from stakeholder concerns down to granular requirements,thus facilitates the ability to continuously tie back the user requirements with the business goals.
- Prioritisation of requirements and identification of dependencies during elicitation rather than as an after-thought.
- Generates easy-to-interpret reports for further in-flight analysis.
- Uses gamification concepts to make it intuitive, quick to pick-up and easy to use.
- Collaborative tool with centralised repository allows all project stakeholders to access the same “version of truth”.
- Built on HTML5 which is supported by most Web Browsers and mobile devices.
- Easy to deploy and maintain, available on the cloud as well as in-premise.
Where to use HoQ-e
In a typical Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), we employ the HoQ-e to accelerate and improve the yield of the Requirements Elicitation & Analysis activities, Decision support, Business case definition and Consensus building
Who is it for
Business Analysts and SMEs, Project Managers, Architects and Quality Assurance team.
Benefits of using HoQ-e
- Faster consensus-building and decision making across multiple stakeholders.
- Generates objective, unambiguous requirements aligned to stakeholder or business concerns.
- Significantly reduced risk of requirements churn in downstream phases.
- Reduced effort and timelines in the Requirements phase due to increased effectiveness of the Business Analysts and their engagement with SMEs.
- Small incremental sign-off allows better buy-in and alignment between business and IT.
- Graphical representation allows rapid and effective quality control and PM governance.
- Facilitates Change Management by allowing rapid Scope and Change impact analysis.
- Reduces the number of change requests post requirement sign off.
Having been Oracle’s CIO in my prevvious life, what ZDLC’s is doing to automate the development and test process is very exciting to me as it represents the future of how software development QA processes will become much more automated in the future. Results from early adaptors are already showing how tools like this will help the coding world learn how to become much more efficient by reducing defects and time/cost to market.
Mark Iwanowski
Partner, Enterprise Business Acceerator