The 9 steps to successful project implementation From BD to Operations

BD to Production Timeline Jan Tony

Timeline 1. Idea 2. Decision to go further 3. Decision with ROI 4. GO 5. Development 6. QA 7. Deployment 8. Production 9. Post Mortem

1.IDEA Phase where Business Development work out the ideas Identify ideas Work out some of the high level concepts Work towards a 20 Questions doc

2. Decision V1-Can Abort “To Look further” is decided Bring Operations and SW Mgr into the know on a high level Start working towards high level schedules Deliverables Business case ROI Identify contacts

3. Decision V2-Committed Tony, Rick, Lee are brought in More detailed doc with requirements Compliance Review Preliminary project plan Architecture fit analysis PM assignment Management team will decide priority All docs for Tony to run until completion will be created

4. Go Decided to go forward and implement Requirements to be delivered –Full Requirements Doc –Full Project Plan (schedule) –Complete Architecture implementation –PM assignment Jan is used for technology advice henceforth Tony is the main contact from here on in

5. Development Development manager tracks progress Publish progress in docs Publish progress on intranet 3 Documents need to be created –Software Design –Deployment Document –Users Guide

6. QA Work with outside entities for QA Work with inside entities for QA QA updates schedules on public docs/intranet 2 Documents need to be created –Testing procedures –??

7. Deployment Plan for deployment Deployment documentation is complete Deployment check-off list is done Operations accepts project Deployment implementation

8. Production This is where we make money!! Hand over to production staff We are done SPR fixes only Escalation by predefined procedures only

9. Post Mortem – How we did Evaluate metrics Perform analysis Revisit Process Enhance all steps and processes See if we could have done it better Job well done