Discover

The discover phase captures insights about the business, the technology, and the user community.

Business discovery

The business discovery stage involves discussions with the various business stakeholders. These discussions focus on gaining an understanding of the driving factors for the solution and success requirements that are not user-centric.

Some of the key considerations include:

  • Discover the review and approval workflows to automate and prioritize them based on criteria such as return on investment and reduction in cycle times.

  • Identify the participants involved in the review and the rules that drive the reviews and approvals.

Technical discovery

The technical discovery stage involves an examination of the current infrastructure, applications, and the technical staff. The goal is to understand what currently exists and the aspects of the current situation that can change.

Some of the key considerations include:

  • The type of approval required. For example, click-through or digital signatures.

  • Integration with existing systems to dynamically discover participants in a review/approval process.

  • Integration with existing ECM and records management and archival systems.

  • Deployment and integration within an existing Enterprise Intranet portal or corporate website.

  • Deployment architecture required to securely support external reviewers.

  • Application server, operating system, database requirements, and compatibility with LiveCycle ES2.5.

  • The number of reviews initiated per day, the number of concurrent reviews, and the number of review templates defined.

  • The skill sets required to compare against capabilities of the team or required to implement a project successfully.

User experience audit

The user experience audit stage investigates the users, their backgrounds, working environment, knowledge, skill sets, and expertise. The goal is to capture their needs, wants, likes, dislikes, limitations, and pain points with respect to their current tools.

This solution guide provides a list of personas that have been discovered and used to develop the solution template.

  • Review Template Authors

  • Review Initiators

  • Review participants (reviewers, approvers, moderators.)

  • Review Administrators

  • Business Analysts

  • IT Staff

  • LiveCycle Developers

  • LiveCycle Programmers

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