The product vision is a graphical or textual representation of the product that will be developed. It was already recognized in the nineties as fundamental to the success of projects. The emergence of the approach called Agile Project Management recommended replacing the traditional Scope Statement by the practice of describing the Vision. This paper analyzes the differences between the practices, compares existing models to describe the vision and proposes a method to replace the Scope Statement by a vision, describing such application in a participant-observer study. It ends with the results of the application and makes a comparison between the proposed method and the traditional way of Scope Statement. The result indicates that the method complies with aspects like simplification and streamlining of the process and it can be a complement to the traditional scope statement mode.
Product development; Project methodology; Agile project management; Product vision; Project management
