Requirements Engineering
How a Fintech Startup Reduced Requirements Churn by 40% in 8 Weeks
40% reduction in requirements churn
Process Optimisation
Turning 18 Months of Scope Creep into a Clear 90-Day Delivery Plan
Client: A National Retail Chain|Industry: Retail|Duration: 12 weeks
The Challenge
The client had been attempting to rebuild their e-commerce platform for 18 months. What started as a six-month project had ballooned as stakeholders continuously added requirements, changed priorities, and debated architectural decisions.
By the time we were engaged, the team had 400+ backlog items with no clear prioritisation, three competing roadmaps from different business units, and development velocity had dropped by 60%.
Our Approach
We conducted a rapid diagnostic over the first two weeks, mapping all stakeholders, cataloguing the existing backlog, and identifying the core business capabilities that needed to ship for the platform to deliver value.
Using a structured prioritisation framework, we reduced the backlog from 400+ items to 85 essential stories, aligned three business units around a single roadmap, and created a 90-day delivery plan with clear milestones and governance checkpoints.
Results
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The project was successfully delivered within the 90-day window. The CTO later described the intervention as 'the turning point that saved a seven-figure investment.'