The 9 steps to successful project implementation

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The 9 steps to successful project implementation

• From BD to Operations

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BD to Production

• Timeline

Jan
Tony
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
• ??

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7. Deployment

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

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8. Production

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

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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