Comprehensive Project Management
Effective, comprehensive project management is critical to any
deployment, but it is particularly important when dealing with medium
and large solution deployments, which requires coordinated integration
with existing infrastructures, design and planning criteria, and
operational processes in order to achieve desired business results. The
project management guidelines are designed to help ensure a consistent
process. The project management tasks are classified in two categories:
preliminary and ongoing. Some of those tasks are outlined below.
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Preliminary tasks—initiate the project, define and document the project scope, define task and work structure, identify risks and create a mitigation plan, develop a resource plan, determine project costs and establish a budget, and develop a schedule. |
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Ongoing tasks—manage risk, manage costs and resources, manage change, manage solution performance and progress, and update the project plan. |
Solution Lifecycle Management
The focus is specifically on the planning, design, and implementation
stages of the solution lifecycle and covers three areas within each
stage: technology, operations, and training.
Planning Stage
The planning stage of the solution lifecycle strategy focuses on the
assessment and testing of the existing IT environment, architectural
planning for the proposed network solution. The methodology targets some
or all of the following areas:
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Technology — verify business and technical needs by line of business, determine feature and function requirements, develop solution requirements, develop specifications for site requirements, and create solution test plans. |
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Operations — evaluate important functions of the operations environment such as resiliency, availability, fault management, problem management, change management, configuration management, and security management. |
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Training —
enumerate customer/operations staff who will be required to
acquire necessary skills to monitor & manage the infrastructure.
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Design Stage
The design stage of the solution lifecycle strategy focuses on services
that identify and prevent potential network bottlenecks or issues
related to conflicting design measurements. Solution Deployment strategy
targets some or all of the following areas:
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Technology — validate the proposed solution architecture; develop a detailed design as well as architectural scalability, reliability, and security; develop a implementation plan. |
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Operations — incorporate required functions of the operations environment as per assessment done in the planning stage . |
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Training —
create an educational development plan for operations and
administration staff and users. |
Implementation Stage
The implementation stage of the solution lifecycle strategy focuses on
ensuring that the design and deployment deliver the desired value and
functions. Solution Deployment methodology targets some of the following
areas:
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Technology — conduct pilot testing for solution, conduct a site survey, create and execute a remediation plan—if necessary—to resolve problems before installation, stage and configure the solution, install the solution at each site. |
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Operations—create and execute an operations remediation plan, if necessary. |
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Training — conduct operations, administration, and user training. |
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