5 Reasons To Avoid Analysis in Advance

#97. I share five reasons why I think you should avoid analysis in advance when you're building Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications.

My five top reasons:

• Peak ignorance. You're analyzing the requirements during the period when your stakeholders know least about Microsoft business applications and your analysts know least about their needs.
• Priority categorization. Your requirement specification doesn't order the requirements by business value.
• Over-engineering. Your requirements are likely to lead to over-engineered complexity and a rejected user experience.
• Wasted effort. You're spending time chasing the illusion of completeness and putting yourself at risk of a significant change that will derail your requirements specification.
• Opportunity cost. By deferring deployment you're deferring the benefits, and costing your organization money.

Resources

• Scrum.org
• Customery Academy
• Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn
• Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser
• Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy
• Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy

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