We’re good at research, and budget setting, and requirements management. We know what we want, and how to go about getting it. If it’s not good for us, we walk away.
So, why are we often so bad at doing this in the workplace? Is it because we want something more quickly, or cheaper, or both? Is it because of top-down management pressure to ‘just do it’, or unrealistic planning to satisfy someone’s unrealistic demands? In reality, it’s a combination of all the above, and it’s only when we are prepared to stand up and insist that the appropriate levels of effort and investment are applied to each task that we see the results we, and our stakeholders, expect.
This is why the activity to establish good requirements is so crucial to a project’s success.
Here at HM3 we pride ourselves on our ability to set accurate and realistic requirements for each and every project we carry out. Requirements should always be the first step in a project’s lifecycle, and will allow every individual involved to be made aware of what the expectations are from the outset.
Requirements should cascade into a schedule, they should inform and guide design and build decisions, and they should directly correlate with test plans so that there is a very clear, documented record of assurance and approval. Without them, one or all the phases of your project lifecycle could become open ended and impossible to measure.
When this happens, it becomes extremely difficult to move from one part of a project to another and if milestone payments are involved it’s likely very difficult to achieve them. Setting requirements before anything else is one of the foundational elements for achieving the successful delivery of agreed outcomes, and without them the inevitable result is that time and cost increase and output quality will be significantly lower.
After all, if you don't know the requirement how do you know when you've finished?!
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On Saturday, HM3 directors Andy Mellor and Darren Henderson alongside Harry Mellor and Bryony Carter completed the Walking With The Wounded Cumbrian Challenge!
28km covered, nearly 1,700m of ascent and £2,275 raised.
An incredibly tough experience but one we’re proud to be a part of!
Thank you so much to every single person who donated, it means the world to us and goes towards a very important cause.
HM3 are very pleased to announce that we have achieved our Cyber Essentials Plus certification for the second year in a row!
With the ever-increasing threat of cyber attacks, the fact that we've been independently assessed by an expert who has confirmed that we have robust controls in place, is really reassuring. We're doing all that we can to protect against common threats and that's a great benefit to both our customers and ourselves.
HM3 are proud to sponsor and support a variety of sports teams and organisation. One of which is Stafford Rangers U12s Tigers who competed in the Shield Final last weekend and after a nerve-racking penalty shootout, went on to win it!
Their manager Jason had this to say about their journey to the final;
“Firstly thank you for your sponsorship and continued support at HM3 consultancy. We appreciate everything you do for us as a team.
I wanted to share with you our success that took place on Sunday as Stafford Rangers Tigers U12s took home our first trophy after just a short period of two years as a team, with none of our players having any previous playing experience.
Supporting grass roots football is so important with the lack of investment at this level and without companies like yourselves this achievement wouldn’t be possible. Just to outline some of our achievements so far this season; We have scored 105 goals in 13 games, whilst only conceding 32 along the way. The top goalscorer at U12s (Jack) sits at the top of the leaderboard for the whole of the U12s age group, whilst also having 3 goalscorers inside the top 10 for the league.
Having won the Shield Final, we are still in contention to win the league.
Thank you without you it wouldn’t be possible!”
A big congratulations to Rangers on their incredible achievement, and we look forward to hearing from them when they win the league!
