Discovery Process
Our discovery process will help you jumpstart your product vision. We will work together with customized activities, workshops and interviews to deliver a holistic plan to bring your product to life.
Together, we will develop a high-level software architecture, a roadmap draft, a release plan, and LoFi wireframes, etc — all the building blocks you will need to build your product incrementally.
Together, we will develop a high-level software architecture, a roadmap draft, a release plan, and LoFi wireframes, etc — all the building blocks you will need to build your product incrementally.
Our discovery process uses a value-driven approach to ensure we keep the user of your product top of mind while also meeting
the needs of your business.
In today’s digital market, user needs change rapidly, and their expectations are high, making their trust difficult to earn and easy to lose. In response to these changes, businesses must find ways to add value to their customers
at the right time and for the right needs.
Traditional project plans do not offer the flexibility needed to adapt to the evolving demands of end users. Embracing a mindset that focuses on outcomes, rather than just output, is the key to achieving success for your business.
Traditional project plans do not offer the flexibility needed to adapt to the evolving demands of end users. Embracing a mindset that focuses on outcomes, rather than just output, is the key to achieving success for your business.
By investing in the Discovery Process, we will collaborate to establish a
solid foundation that enables your product to thrive. Prioritizing a positive customer experience can result in generating 5.7x more revenue than competitors lacking a good user experience.
Our discovery process bring together stakeholders from various departments or teams to align their understanding and project goals. This helps ensure that everyone is on the same page and working towards a common objective.
Our discovery process bring together stakeholders from various departments or teams to align their understanding and project goals. This helps ensure that everyone is on the same page and working towards a common objective.
The Cognits Approach
We are consultative - not just direction takers.
Our teams show up ready to be your team.
We believe deadlines are critical.
Deadlines are always at the forefront of our projects.
We are flexible.
Our team is prepared to adapt at any point, if things change we will easily adjust resources and do what is necessary to accommodate.
We take a user centric and quality focused approach.
Our teams are trained and certified in industry best practices, and user experience.
We don’t settle for less than excellence.
Our hiring process is tedious and rigorous so that we are confident only the best of the best are staffed for our clients.
At Cognits, we aim to do the right thing, and do it once, teaming up with our clients to make things happen.
Let Our Team Become Your Team
Between English proficiency interviews, technology exams and assessments, background checks and more we can assure you your project is in the best hands.
Solutions Architect
Designs and implements high-level solutions to complex technical problems, aligning them with an organization's goals and ensuring they meet technical and business requirements.
Subject Matter Expert
The SMEs provide domain-specific knowledge, insights, and guidance during the discovery phase, contributing essential expertise to inform decision-making roles.
UX/UI Designer
UX designers are responsible for creating positive and meaningful experiences for users when they interact with digital products or services. They focus on understanding user needs, conducting research, and designing user interfaces that are intuitive, aesthetically pleasing, and easy to use.
QA Test Engineer
A QA Test Engineer is responsible for ensuring the crafting of the test process, establishing test strategies and approaches, defining the master plan, and establishing the initial instance of the quality management system.
Project Manager
Serving as your main point of contact, the project manager is responsible for all planning and oversight of projects to ensure they are completed on time, within budget and within scope.
Facilitator
Supports team collaboration, removes impediments, and ensures adherence to agile practices. The Facilitator’s ultimate goal is to foster an efficient and productive work environment.
Stakeholders
Stakeholders actively engage by articulating needs, goals, and expectations, participating in discussions, and providing feedback to ensure alignment between objectives and their requirements.
Business Analyst
Identifies stakeholders' needs, gathers and analyzes requirements, and helps define the project's roadmap, release plan and objectives for informed decision-making.
Let’s do this together!
Discovery Process Phases
1
Idea Discovery
Idea discovery is the process of generating and exploring new concepts and solutions through methods like market research, user interviews, and brainstorming. By embracing curiosity and exploration, individuals and teams uncover innovative ideas and creative solutions. It helps uncover unique insights and generate valuable ideas that can be further developed and implemented.
2
Design Thinking
Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that emphasizes empathy, creativity,
and collaboration. It involves understanding user needs, generating innovative ideas, prototyping and testing solutions, and iterating based on feedback. By focusing on human-centered design, design thinking helps teams create user-centric and effective solutions to complex problems.
3
Product Discovery
Product Discovery is a phase for visualizing and organizing product development. It involves creating a visual representation of user stories along a timeline, helping teams prioritize and understand the user journey. This process fosters better communication, alignment, and decision-making among stakeholders, enabling efficient product development and delivering value to users incrementally.
4
Post Discovery
After the discovery phase of digital product development, teams typically move on to post-discovery tasks. These include refining user stories, creating detailed design mockups, developing a project roadmap, estimating timelines and resources, establishing key performance indicators (KPIs), and finalizing the project scope. This phase sets the stage for development and implementation, ensuring a clear plan and alignment among team members and stakeholders.
Discovery Process Phases
1. Idea Discovery
1
Idea Discovery
Idea discovery is the process of generating and exploring new concepts and solutions through methods like market research, user interviews, and brainstorming. By embracing curiosity and exploration, individuals and teams uncover innovative ideas and creative solutions. It helps uncover unique insights and generate valuable ideas that can be further developed and implemented.
2. Design Thinking
2
Design Thinking
Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that emphasizes empathy, creativity,
and collaboration. It involves understanding user needs, generating innovative ideas, prototyping and testing solutions, and iterating based on feedback. By focusing on human-centered design, design thinking helps teams create user-centric and effective solutions to complex problems.
3. Product Discovery
3
Product Discovery
Product Discovery is a phase for visualizing and organizing product development. It involves creating a visual representation of user stories along a timeline, helping teams prioritize and understand the user journey. This process fosters better communication, alignment, and decision-making among stakeholders, enabling efficient product development and delivering value to users incrementally.
4. Post Discovery
4
Post Discovery
After the discovery phase of digital product development, teams typically move on to post-discovery tasks. These include refining user stories, creating detailed design mockups, developing a project roadmap, estimating timelines and resources, establishing key performance indicators (KPIs), and finalizing the project scope. This phase sets the stage for development and implementation, ensuring a clear plan and alignment among team members and stakeholders.
Discovery Process Phases
1. Idea Discovery
1
Idea Discovery
Idea discovery is the process of generating and exploring new concepts and solutions through methods like market research, user interviews, and brainstorming. By embracing curiosity and exploration, individuals and teams uncover innovative ideas and creative solutions. It helps uncover unique insights and generate valuable ideas that can be further developed and implemented.
2. Design Thinking
2
Design Thinking
Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that emphasizes empathy, creativity,
and collaboration. It involves understanding user needs, generating innovative ideas, prototyping and testing solutions, and iterating based on feedback. By focusing on human-centered design, design thinking helps teams create user-centric and effective solutions to complex problems.
3. Product Discovery
3
Product Discovery
Product Discovery is a phase for visualizing and organizing product development. It involves creating a visual representation of user stories along a timeline, helping teams prioritize and understand the user journey. This process fosters better communication, alignment, and decision-making among stakeholders, enabling efficient product development and delivering value to users incrementally.
4. Post Discovery
4
Deliver
After the discovery phase of digital product development, teams typically move on to post-discovery tasks. These include refining user stories, creating detailed design mockups, developing a project roadmap, estimating timelines and resources, establishing key performance indicators (KPIs), and finalizing the project scope. This phase sets the stage for development and implementation, ensuring a clear plan and alignment among team members and stakeholders.
Our Tool Box
Not seeing a tool you are familiar with? Not to worry - our team can adapt to either teach you, or learn new tools, as we are able to facilitate the discovery process 100% remotely.
Your Success is Our Success
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Product Development
Our highly vetted, qualified, and skilled cross-functional teams work together to deliver value to our customers and clients.
We’ve taken Agile methodology to the next level with a holistic approach built on each individual’s skills to achieve results and create meaningful impact.
We’ve taken Agile methodology to the next level with a holistic approach built on each individual’s skills to achieve results and create meaningful impact.
Platform Integration
Let your internal team focus on the pressing strategic
work and leave complicated tech integrations to us. We
can handle the complexity for you – at any level – to quickly get your platforms to market so you can make the most of
your investment.
Managed Services
We’re ready to partner with you on anything from visualization to security, and cloud services.
Our goal is to help ensure your systems are always up-to-date, running smoothly, and securely protected so that your business can continue to move forward.
Our goal is to help ensure your systems are always up-to-date, running smoothly, and securely protected so that your business can continue to move forward.
Website Development
We offer both custom and template-led website designs at any price point.
Our highly skilled teams ensure each build is optimized for your unique business goals and objectives, and that we build it on your timeline.
Our highly skilled teams ensure each build is optimized for your unique business goals and objectives, and that we build it on your timeline.
Financial Services
Through a rigorous recruitment process, we guarantee that our teams are knowledgeable and proficient finance experts. If you’re ready to meet your goals faster, we’re ready to build a team that can do just that.
Want to learn more about how we can partner with you?
Other Services
Product Development
Product Development
Our highly vetted, qualified, and skilled cross-functional teams work together to deliver value to our customers and clients.
We’ve taken Agile methodology to the next level with a holistic approach built on each individual’s skills to achieve results and create meaningful impact.
We’ve taken Agile methodology to the next level with a holistic approach built on each individual’s skills to achieve results and create meaningful impact.
Platform Integration
Platform Integration
Let your internal team focus on the pressing strategic
work and leave complicated tech integrations to us. We
can handle the complexity for you – at any level – to quickly get your platforms to market so you can make the most of
your investment.
Managed Services
Managed Services
We’re ready to partner with you on anything from visualization to security, and cloud services.
Our goal is to help ensure your systems are always up-to-date, running smoothly, and securely protected so that your business can continue to move forward.
Our goal is to help ensure your systems are always up-to-date, running smoothly, and securely protected so that your business can continue to move forward.
Website Development
Website Development
We offer both custom and template-led website designs at any price point.
Our highly skilled teams ensure each build is optimized for your unique business goals and objectives, and that we build it on your timeline.
Our highly skilled teams ensure each build is optimized for your unique business goals and objectives, and that we build it on your timeline.
Financial Services
Financial Services
Through a rigorous recruitment process, we guarantee that our teams are knowledgeable and proficient finance experts. If you’re ready to meet your goals faster, we’re ready to build a team that can do just that.
Want to learn more about how we can partner with you?
Other Services
Product Development
Product Development
Our highly vetted, qualified, and skilled cross-functional teams work together to deliver value to our customers and clients.
We’ve taken Agile methodology to the next level with a holistic approach built on each individual’s skills to achieve results and create meaningful impact.
We’ve taken Agile methodology to the next level with a holistic approach built on each individual’s skills to achieve results and create meaningful impact.
Platform Integration
Platform Integration
Let your internal team focus on the pressing strategic
work and leave complicated tech integrations to us. We
can handle the complexity for you – at any level – to quickly get your platforms to market so you can make the most of
your investment.
Managed Services
Managed Services
We’re ready to partner with you on anything from visualization to security, and cloud services.
Our goal is to help ensure your systems are always up-to-date, running smoothly, and securely protected so that your business can continue to move forward.
Our goal is to help ensure your systems are always up-to-date, running smoothly, and securely protected so that your business can continue to move forward.
Website Development
Website Development
We offer both custom and template-led website designs at any price point.
Our highly skilled teams ensure each build is optimized for your unique business goals and objectives, and that we build it on your timeline.
Our highly skilled teams ensure each build is optimized for your unique business goals and objectives, and that we build it on your timeline.
Financial Services
Financial Services
Through a rigorous recruitment process, we guarantee that our teams are knowledgeable and proficient finance experts. If you’re ready to meet your goals faster, we’re ready to build a team that can do just that.