Discovery workshops
With the people who do the work, not only their managers.
03 · IT consulting & delivery
Requirements your teams recognise and your vendors can build.
Workshops, process mapping, requirements, specifications and prioritised backlogs, so business needs are clear and agreed before the build starts.
When to call us
Signs this is the right moment.
If two or more of these sound familiar, a first conversation will help you decide what to do next.
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Business and IT describe the same need in different words.
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Specifications too vague for anyone to estimate.
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Scope that keeps changing once the build has started.
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A vendor to brief or select for a new system.
What we do
Six things we take care of.
Process mapping
Current and target processes, with the pain points that matter.
Requirements & user stories
Written with acceptance criteria your testers can use.
Functional specifications
Detailed enough to estimate, build and test.
Backlog prioritisation
Value, effort and dependencies, agreed with the business.
Vendor brief & selection
Specifications vendors can quote against, compared on the same criteria.
What you receive
Concrete deliverables, yours to keep.
- Workshop notes and decisions
- Current and target process maps
- Requirements catalogue
- Specifications or user stories with acceptance criteria
- Prioritised backlog
- Vendor specification and comparison grid
Who works on it
- Business analystRuns workshops and writes requirements with your teams.
- Business analysis leadOwns scope, priorities and sign-off with the business.
- Product owner supportKeeps the backlog ready, sprint after sprint.
In English, French or Arabic, on site or remotely.
How it runs
Four steps, decisions at each one.
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01
Discover
Workshops, interviews and current-state review.
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02
Model
Current and target processes, data and rules.
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Specify
Requirements and stories, drafted with AI and reviewed with you.
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04
Prioritise & hand over
A backlog ready to build, or a brief ready for vendors.
Experience
Where our consultants have done this.
Roles held inside global groups, some before HLA Consulting was founded.
All programmes-
Allianz Trade
2023 – 2025
Multi-region
Roll-out Manager · Credit insurance & surety
Applications (New Avalis, ATO, DataHub) rolled out across several group regions: requirements, workshops, test strategy, change management and training.
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CIC – Euro Information
2015 – 2018 · pre-2019
25 applications
Business analysis lead · Banking & asset management
Overhaul of the asset-management front-office systems: 25 applications, 2,000+ funds, over €50bn in assets.
FAQ · Business analysis
Frequently asked questions.
Other consulting services
Yes. We turn your needs into a specification vendors can quote against, then help you compare the answers on the same criteria.
Yes, to draft user stories, acceptance criteria and documentation from workshop notes. A business analyst reviews everything and validates it with you.
Both, depending on context and organisational maturity. Our consultants have run programmes in Scrum and in V-model, with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, MS Project or SharePoint.
Europe · Gulf · North Africa
Let’s talk about your programme.
Tell us where you want to go. A senior consultant answers, in English, French or Arabic, with a first view of scope, team and timeline.