For IT Delivery

VisibleThread drives crystal clear documentation for strategic IT programs.

CIOs and executives are looking to:

  • Increase Business Productivity and contain cost
  • Enhance IT and Business Alignment
  • Enhance Business Agility and Speed to market

IT Delivery

Read this data sheet to see how VisibleThread can lower IT Delivery risk and provide program insight.

View 3 minute demos

See how VisibleThread’s language analysis capabilities saves time & increases document quality.

Karl Wiegers on Business ROI - Webinar

View this recorded webinar to hear Karl Wiegers talk about the importance of vetting documents for quality.

Agile and Traditional Documentation - Whitepaper

Read how to adapt current process documentation to facilitate both traditional and agile approaches.

You start strategic programs with ideas. You commit ideas to paper. You create documents. You hand these to IT teams.

The best organizations put in place manual checks to vet the quality of docs. There remain challenges:

  • Document review is manual and time-consuming
  • Objective quality metrics are hard to identify
  • Program & project teams rarely have the time to review all project docs.

The risk of missing strategically important project/program milestones increases if there are ambiguous & under scoped requirements. These tend to lurk below the surface in BRDs (Business requirements Definition) and associated documents.

The VisibleThread Solution

VisibleThread improves efficiency and lowers risk by:

  • Increasing document review efficiency by 40%
  • Pinpointing document quality issues immediately
  • Providing stronger project controls

VisibleThread automatically scans program & project documents for defects and gaps, improving quality and saving you time. VisibleThread gathers quality metrics for any type of document, from BRDs (Business Requirements Definitions) to detailed functional specs.

For Program Managers, PMOs (Project Management Office) and Business Analyst teams, VisibleThread makes reviewing docs 45%* more efficient and raises the quality of documents by pinpointing defects and gaps. The result; less time spent on reviews & inspections, lowered risk of failed programs and better project controls.

Watch this 3-minute demo to learn how to improve your project documentation process with VisibleThread.

* Based on a survey of 30 VisibleThread early adopters, May 2009.

VisibleThread for IT

2:48 minutes
This summary overview shows the business case for using VisibleThread for IT programs. It shows why up to 42% of IT project cost can be attributed to defective documentation and demonstrates how VisibleThread addresses this large business issue.

Red-flagging Bad Language

3:47 minutes
There are some words/phrases that you should avoid in a proposal. This short video shows how VisibleThread scans and red-flags 'bad language' in your RFP Responses.

Using Discovery to spot Gaps

2:28 minutes
Identification of key concepts in issued documents (RFP etc.) helps align the language of the response volumes. Discovery in VisibleThread can uncover mismatches and lack of alignment between issuer and response docs to support reviews and underpin a winning bid.

Validating Win Theme Language

4:43 minutes
Win themes articulate business differentiation. Too often, with multiple contributors and authors, it is hard to keep theme language consistent.

Here we see how VisibleThread validates response docs against win themes by:

Scanning for Compliance Requirements

4:30 minutes
Proposal Managers have to manually scan issued documents or pdfs to spot requirements prefaced with 'shall', 'must' etc. and track them in spreadsheets. This demo shows an 'obligation scan' run against a SOW. All instances of 'will', 'must', 'shall' are identified. It concludes by generating a first pass of an Excel Compliance Matrix.

Collaborations and Team Reviews with
Discussions

5:31 minutes
Managing inputs from multiple contributors and conducting efficient team reviews is critical to successful outcomes. This demo shows how VisibleThread supports collaboration using web based discussions.

Integrating with MS SharePoint

2:36 minutes
VisibleThread integrates seamlessly with MS SharePoint using an intuitive export/import capability. This short demo shows how the integration works in practical terms. We cover:

Plain Language Analysis

4:11 minutes
Plain Language Analysis drives clear documentation. This demo outlines how VisibleThread can identify long sentences, passive langauge and facilitate plain langauge audits.