Discovery
Understand the business, the users, the constraints and the objective.
Before anything is designed we work out what the product has to achieve and for whom. That means understanding how the business currently operates, where the friction is, who the users are, and what success will actually be measured against. Most bad software is the result of skipping this.
You end this stage with
- Requirements summary
- User and stakeholder map
- Success criteria
- Constraints and risks