Process Optimisation
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18 months of drift resolved in 12 weeks
Requirements Engineering
How a Fintech Startup Reduced Requirements Churn by 40% in 8 Weeks
Client: A Series B Fintech Startup|Industry: Financial Services|Duration: 8 weeks
The Challenge
The client was experiencing significant requirements churn, with over 35% of user stories being rewritten after sprint planning. Development teams were frustrated, product managers were overwhelmed, and the business was losing confidence in the engineering organisation's ability to deliver.
Root cause analysis revealed that requirements were being written in isolation by product managers, with minimal stakeholder input and no structured validation before entering the development pipeline.
Our Approach
We introduced a structured requirements engineering framework that included collaborative story mapping sessions, acceptance criteria workshops, and a lightweight review process before stories entered the backlog.
Over 8 weeks, we facilitated 12 workshops with cross-functional teams, trained 6 product managers in requirements elicitation techniques, and established a requirements quality checklist that could be applied in under 10 minutes per story.
Results
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Less requirements churn
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Weeks to measurable impact
Beyond the metrics, the team reported a significant improvement in cross-functional collaboration. Developers felt heard earlier in the process, and product managers had greater confidence in the clarity of their specifications.
“BA Pro transformed how our team approaches requirements. We shipped the right product the first time -- not the third.”
Sarah Chen
VP of Product, Series B Fintech