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For teams commissioning development

Organize decisions about requirements, budget, and acceptance testing.

Two people organizing a workflow and checking priorities together
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Articles in this guide

Articles are ordered by the latest update. Articles without a recorded update date use their publication date.

Before requirements6 min

What to decide before writing requirements

The purpose, success conditions, users, and boundaries to clarify before turning a business problem into a requirements document.

  • Why purpose comes before feature lists
  • How to define the scope of the first release
  • How to set priorities before discussion expands
Priorities6 min

How to prioritize features in a business system

A way to separate essential features from useful additions by looking at workflow impact, frequency, risk, and the scope of the first release.

  • How to separate must-have and nice-to-have features
  • How to judge frequency and impact
  • Why the first release should be narrow
Acceptance testing7 min

What to check in an acceptance test for a business system

A practical acceptance-test view organized around real workflows, permissions, data, and exception handling from the client's perspective.

  • The purpose of acceptance testing
  • How to test the real workflow
  • How to check permissions and data
Before commissioning7 min

What clients should understand before ordering a business system

How to organize purpose, scope, priorities, acceptance criteria, and operations before asking a development company for a proposal.

  • Why system development cannot be completely outsourced
  • The purpose to define before requirements
  • Why current work should not be digitized unchanged