1. The 9 steps to successful project implementation
From BD to Operations

2. BD to Production
Timeline
Jan
Tony 1 3 4 5 6 7 2

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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 ??

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

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

12. 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