Solution Shaping Workshop

£695 + VAT

Many clients come to Oscore with a clear vision for what they need to get done. Those clients will likely have:

• A backlog of user stories or one or more functional requirements documents
• Architecture diagrams
• A plan around incremental infrastructure or capacity needed for the project.
• [In the case of App or Website development], user journeys, designs, wireframes lofi/hifi prototypes
• Pre-selected technologies for implementation (typically technologies that Oscore specializes in)
• An understanding of what aspects of the solution the client will provide and facilitate versus what they are looking for Oscore to provide.

Equally, many clients come to Oscore with a clear vision of their requirement (or sometimes not so clear!) and look to us for help putting some shape around what a solution might look like. We call this process Solution Shaping and we offer it as a service. The Solution Shaping service looks like this:

• We set up one or more meetings of the order of 90 to 120 minutes each between your team and from the Oscore side:
  • One or more of our technical specialists.
  • One or possibly more assistants to handle the notetaking and diagramming.
• Typically these are hosted remotely via Slack, Teams or Zoom, and facilitated using remote collaboration tools such as Visio Online or Miro. Contact us for in-person options.
• Oscore will guide a discussion, making notes via the collaboration tools, and sketching out diagrams.
• Topics typically covered:
  • Overview of Requirements
  • Existing Context: Team, Users, Systems, Code, Infrastructure
  • Review of Existing Documentation
  • Solutions Options: minimal/maximal/optimal
  • Thoughts about Technology Selection
  • Thoughts about Phasing and Work Contours
  • What you can do on your side versus what you need a partner for.
• Depending on how many sessions you feel appropriate, the output of Solution Shaping service can range from an illuminating sketch of a possible solution plus a punchy one-pager describing next steps to a fairly complete road map broken down into phases with accompanying diagrams and user stories or documented requirements.
• The diagrams and notes will be yours to keep.

In collaboration with Oscore, you will leave with a focused set of possible paths heading directly to your end goal.