Detailed Planning 1

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• Detailed Planning - 1

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Overview

• Review Project Structure (lecture 4)
• Project Profile - generic stages

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Project Inception - Roles
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Project Lifecycle

• Generic stages of a Project Lifecycle
• not dependent on any specific method or lifecycle
• Start-Up (Initiation)
• Development
• Completion
• Operational

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Start-Up

• What is to be carried out?
• Objectives, scope, constraints and interfaces
• From feasibility study, project brief, TOR
• Why is it being done?
• Refer to Business Case, Cost / benefit Analysis
• Check whether circumstances have changed

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Start-Up

• Who will do it?
• Project organisation (roles and responsibilities)
• How is it being done?
• When is it being done?
• Both How? And When? Refer to a series of plans
  which will be constantly updated as the project
  develops.

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Start-Up

• General plan description
• prerequisites, external dependences, assumptions
• Technical plan
• deliverables (products), activities, times /
  dates/ durations and dependences
• Resource plan
• people and effort, materials, tools, accommodation

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Start-Up

• Quality plan
• cross references any quality management system ,
  quality manual, development methods
• Risk analysis
• identifies risks, impact and countermeasures
• Configuration management
• control over deliverables, change control process

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The Development Stage

• Requirements Definition
• Design
• Implementation
• Integration and Test
• System Test

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The Development Stage

• Requirements Definition
• deliverable Requirements Specification
• checks the understanding of customer and supplier
• fixes the scope of the project
• the basis on which the system will be accepted
• should include clear acceptance criteria

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The Development Stage

• Design
• separation of logical and physical designs
• must be a clear audit trail from requirements
  specification to design components

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The Development Stage

• Implementation
• programming and unit testing
• results in a set of modules built and tested to
  specification

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The Development Stage

• Integration and testing
• Ensures all modules communicate, and in the
  required way
• may also include integration with customers
  existing systems - often a different set of tests

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The Development Stage

• System Testing
• ensures the whole system works as defined in the
  original System Requirements Specification
  (Waterfall lifecycle) OR as revised
  specifications (V model and Spiral model)
• includes checking that Acceptance Criteria have
  been met

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The Completion Stage

• Delivery
• of all agreed deliverables held under
  configuration management, incl. code and paper
  records of code
• Training and documentation
• the culmination of a process

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The Completion Stage

• Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• functionality (see Requirements Specification)
• performance (incl. recovery). Check volumes,
  speeds, user numbers, response times
• interface testing - integration with existing
  systems
• environmental testing - heat, noise etc

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The Completion Stage

• Acceptance
• System Commissioning
• installed in final site and loaded with live data
  (sometimes combined with UAT)
• Final Hand-over
• end of project report by Project Manager (time,
  cost, quality results)
• project evaluation report by Project Director /
  User Project Manager

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The Operational Stage

• Not usually part of the project
• Additional changes tweaks
• subject to change control process
• post-implementation review(s)
• links back to Business Case
• links back to Requirements Specification
• measures success
• may become launch pad of the next project

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End of Lecture