Enterprise Functional Decomposition & ADO Requirements

Fuzion Consulting Group was engaged by the Generation organization and Corporate IT of a large electric utility to develop a comprehensive IT Project Charter and Azure DevOps (ADO) functional requirements framework for the Enterprise Project Management System (EPMS) program.

The request was driven by a strategic evaluation effort involving multiple business units—including Generation, Operations, and Transmission & Distribution—along with Corporate IT leadership. The organization was assessing whether to continue investing in existing and evolving platforms, including internal construction and project management solutions, or to transition to alternative commercial SaaS platforms.

To support this decision, Corporate IT requested a formal, defensible, and traceable documentation package detailing EPMS architecture, infrastructure, engineering workflows, and business processes that Fuzion had previously delivered and stabilized.

Fuzion developed a structured IT Project Charter and ADO-based requirements model that translated business objectives into both functional and non-functional system requirements. The effort enabled leadership to objectively compare existing platforms with alternative SaaS solutions under consideration, including large-scale enterprise construction and project management systems.

The work emphasized governance, clarity, and testability, ensuring all requirements were measurable, traceable, and aligned with enterprise standards. By creating a consistent framework within Azure DevOps, the utility gained a more disciplined and defensible basis for strategic system evaluation.

Fuzion delivered a comprehensive documentation and analysis effort that included development of an EPMS IT Project Charter aligned with enterprise governance standards, documentation of current-state and future-state architecture and infrastructure, and mapping of engineering and business processes across Generation, Operations, and T&D.

The engagement also included decomposition of business requirements into functional requirements, definition of non-functional requirements such as performance, security, scalability, and compliance, and structured functional decomposition into epics, features, and user stories within Azure DevOps.

Fuzion established clear, testable acceptance criteria for each requirement, aligned requirements with project stage gates 1–5 and operational workflows, and created a structured ADO framework that supported objective vendor and platform comparison.

This engagement enabled the utility to objectively evaluate enterprise SaaS alternatives against existing platforms while establishing a clear and traceable link between business needs and system functionality.

The resulting framework reduced risk by ensuring requirements were explicit, measurable, and testable, while also supporting informed executive decision-making with defensible documentation. It gave the organization a clearer basis for comparing major platform options without relying on assumptions or incomplete business logic.

The work also created a reusable ADO framework for future enterprise initiatives and helped align business units and Corporate IT around a shared understanding of system needs, priorities, and evaluation criteria.

By translating complex operational and engineering requirements into a structured ADO model, Fuzion provided the utility with a vendor-neutral decision framework. This approach enabled leadership to compare multi-million-dollar SaaS alternatives against internally developed and modernized platforms without bias, ambiguity, or reliance on vendor marketing claims.

The engagement reinforced Fuzion’s role as a trusted advisor capable of bridging business strategy, engineering operations, and enterprise IT governance. Rather than focusing only on technical delivery, the work positioned Fuzion at the center of strategic technology evaluation and investment planning.

This project highlights Fuzion’s ability to support enterprise technology investment decisions in regulated utility environments, translate business strategy into actionable and testable technical requirements, and lead cross-functional alignment across multiple business units and Corporate IT.

It also demonstrates Fuzion’s strength in applying disciplined requirements engineering and governance practices at scale, helping organizations make high-value technology decisions with greater confidence, clarity, and structure.