Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Project phases - Dirty dozen

I had been inventing about this for a while :-) I wanted to name the dozen phases of a project life cycle to start with the letter D. So here I go... Please feel free to leave some comments if any thing can be changed. I have made a logical grouping using color codes, with little explanation on them. All copyrights reserved ;-)
  • Discover - Business Process Reengineering / A new project out of Business Analysis
  • Discuss - Scope definition / Project Charter
  • Define - Business process definition / Planning / Budget
  • Decide - RFP / Build or Buy decession / Vendor selection
  • Design - Structural design / Architectural design
  • Develop - Coding / Documentation & Training
  • Deploy - Conference Room Pilot(CRP)
  • Debug - User Acceptance Testing / Post-CRP
  • Deliver - Build & release
  • Distribute - Go live and inform the stake holders
  • Damage Control - Warranty phase - Support for all types (issue/incidence/problems/resolution)
  • Deep support - Phase where the project goes into maintenance mode