IT Management Blog: my thoughts about putting the "i" in IT

SDLC - Business versus IT streams

A model I created a long time ago.
 
 
 
Business responsibility
Technology responsibility
 
 























Investigation phase
·         Proposal business improvement opportunities.doc
o    Proposal for initiating a project and use of resource to improve the business; initial business benefit indication; very high level cost/benefit analysis; indication on how to continue with respect to resources, involvement of people, etc.
·         Business strategy planning.doc
·         Business change management plan.doc
 
 
[Management decision to continue]
·         Business resource planning for next phase
·         Priority definition
·         Assignment of business project manager
[Technology planning]
·         Technology resource planning
·         Priority definition
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

















 
Analysis phase
·         Business process analysis.doc
o    business process diagram’s; data flow diagrams; includes automated and non automated aspects; IT opportunities; includes as-is and to-be versions; includes interactions with automated systems
·         Vision (scope statement).doc
·         Business case.doc,
o    containing brief outline of following items: business benefit; cost/benefit analysis – business & technical / operational & project; resource requirements – business & technical x internal x external; high level indication of timelines and milestones; change management analysis
ICT Strategy planning
·         IT Strategy Analysis & Definition .doc
·         IT Enterprise architecture analysis & defintion.doc
 
[Management decision to continue]
·         Budget provisioning
·         Resource planning
 
[Management decision to continue]
·         Budget provisioning
·         Assignment of technology project manager
·         Resource planning



 









 
Business project management
·         Project plan.doc
·         Business requirements document (detailed).doc
·         Scope management plan.doc
·         Staffing management plan.doc
·         Communication management plan.doc
·         Project schedule.mpp
·         Risk management plan.doc
·         Quality management plan.doc
 
Business design and change
·         Re-organisation blue print.doc
Investigation phase
·         Exploration of technical options.doc
o    potential technical solutions; high level cost benefit analysis, including project ROI and operational ROI; optional vendor quotes; technical & functional & data visualisation in schemas and text, taking technology enterprise architecture into account
 









 
 















 
Business project management
·         Project status report.doc
·         Project status dashboard.doc
·         Meeting minutes, issue logs, etc.
·         Project change log.doc
 
Business implementation
·         User acceptance test script.doc
·         Training manual.doc
ICT project management
·         Project plan.doc
·         Scope management plan.doc
·         Staffing management plan.doc
·         Communication management plan.doc
·         Project schedule.mpp
·         Risk management plan.doc
·         Quality management plan.doc
 
System analysis & design
·         Business requirements (system requirements).doc
·         Information analysis.doc
·         Functional design.doc
·         Technical solution design (system architecture).doc
·         COTS evaluation.doc











 
ICT Project management
·         Project status report.doc
·         Project status dashboard.doc
·         Meeting minutes, issue logs, etc.
·         Change requests.doc
·         Project change log.doc
·         UAT sign-off.doc
 
System development
·         User acceptance test script.doc
·         User manual.doc
·         Technology operation manual.doc2







 
 
 
[Management decision]
·         Sign off
[Management decision]
·         ICT operations acceptance