Feature Fit Risk

Risk that the needs of the client don't coincide with services provided by the supplier.

Part Of

• Feature Risk

Reduced By Practices

• Analysis: Analysis of problems helps you make sure you come up with the right solution.
• Automation: Reduces the variability in process completion
• Standardisation: Ensures that the features conform to predefined standards, reducing variability.

Attendant To Practices

• Automation: The automated process might not capture the variability of requirements of the original approach
• Design: Too much design up-front can create problems meeting feature requirements.

This is the risk that the feature that clients want to use in the software isn't there.

• This might manifest itself as complete absence of something you need, e.g "Why is there no word count in this editor?"
• It could be that the implementation isn't complete enough, e.g "why can't I add really long numbers in this calculator?"

Feature Fit Risks are mitigated by talking to clients, product development and delivery (as shown in the above diagram). But that leads on to...