A few words about enterprise portal specification
Before we delve into enterprise portal specification, we should first understand what an enterprise portal is. A portal is an internal organizational system that serves certain position holders – or all of the organization's employees – and allows them to perform certain tasks. Here are a few examples: a salary system, an internal employee communication system, an HR system, an internal CRM system, and more.
Why is enterprise portal specification so important?
It would not be an overreaction to state that the most important step in the enterprise portal development system is the specification stage. This stage defines the system's designation, but it also does much more. The enterprise portal specification stage defines the desired user experience, the necessary functions, the system's general architecture and design, its target users, etc. This process will determine the course and complexity of the development process, the number of developers allocated for the project, the types of technologies used, and more.
Without preliminary enterprise portal specification, the development team will lack the proper guiding coordinates. In fact, the specification process is the glue that binds the client's wishes to the developers' capabilities. It is a process that starts with dialogue, continues with brainstorming sessions, and ends with a formal spec document.