Stackable Jacks Method
A Business Analysis Method
From a single stakeholder statement to a structured, traceable scope.
A cohesive set of techniques to connect What with Why.
✓ 1 principle ✓ 7 techniques ✓ 1 framework
The Method
What makes it different
✓ Clarifies meaning behind wording
✓ Intrinsically traceable and visual
✓ Cohesive set of analysis concepts, techniques and frameworks
✓ Covers full lifecycle from inception to delivery
Connect What with Why
What it changes in practice
The same analytical structure supports different decisions depending on where you sit in the lifecycle.
For business
- Reveal the big picture.
- Consolidate decision ownership.
- Find answers to your important Why, What, and How.
- Make decisions based on well-structured thinking output.
For practitioners
- Manage “out of scope” explicitly.
- Build an extensive requirements list out of a single statement.
- Engage stakeholders confidently and meaningfully.
- Add requirements without breaking the structure.
For delivery
- See how implementation supports your strategy.
- Use requirements for testing.
- Re-use requirements effectively, without inflating the scope.
- Visualise complexity, priority and additional context.
For everyone
- Think agnostically of the solution.
- Understand and showcase the difference.
- Stop digressing, keep focused.
- Fight procrastination by incremental documentation.
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