The travel technology needs assessment workshop conducted with travel technology expert and systems architect Henry Wang and strategy business advisor Matt Zito helps your company answer these four questions about your development project that every travel startup asks.
What do we need to build?
What resources are needed?
What is the best technology?
How much will it cost?
What We Do:
Analyze current technology, business processes and operations to determine what technology functionality, financial resources and caliber of technology team is needed to accomplish your companies business goals.
The Objectives:
• Gap analysis between current state and desired future state.
• Identify major functionality needs and their rationale.
• Determine the business values, and tangible returns of the functionality needs.
• Understand the prioritization to shape trade-off decisions.
• Formulate a power team (competency map – who do we need).
• Establish level of effort estimation and draft the needed investment.
• Development Methodology – Sprints & recovery vs. marathon.
• Technologies Strategy – Mobile? Social? Monetization options?
The Approach:
1. Discussions with your team around the current operations pain points.
2. Discussions around ideal nirvana state.
3. Fill up a needs matrix starting with the following headings:
- What do we need?
- Who would benefit?
- Why?
- Why not?
4. Drive a prioritization exercise on the needs matrix to establish must-have’s, nice-have’s, dependencies and a sprint plan:
- Business Value
- Must Have Y/N
- Tentative Sprint Release
- Dependencies
5. Strategic vs. Tactic Positioning – revisit the exercise so far to highlight strategic value over tactic tasks.
6. Methodology, Process, Power Team discussion.
Deliverables
- 1 hour phone presentation session with Matt Zito and Henry Wang.
- Digital presentation in PDF includes: Needs Matrix capturing all the functionality needs identified throughout the workshop.
- Methodology – Agile to support Sprint-based delivery to the market.
- Power Team – what kind of caliber and competency to be acquired to ensure the success.
- Budget estimation and funding consideration so you can RFP out your project to be developed.
If your interested in the Travel Technology Assessment Needs Workshop and would like to learn more please fill out the form below. We will get back to you within 24-hours.