Project charter

Project Plan/Project Charter
Project Number

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Project or Sub-Project Name

Applications Delivery Methodology

Background

must dramatically improve its ability to delivery business applications in a timely, cost-effective, flexible and quality manner. Specific program goals include achievement of at least an order of magnitudeproductivity improvement.

Scope

Twelve functional objectives have been identified for project completion:

1. Provide identifiable and measurable improvements to the applications delivery process. Specific measures of improvement will be identified as part of concept validation.

2. Central repository of delivery routes customized to capture ’s best practices implemented.3. Processes in place to support project managers in the use of the uniform and proven best practices to generate project plans.

4. Support of the enterprise CMM/SEI objectives.

5. Time, cost and quality metrics and effort estimation models implemented.

6. Consistent use of the methodology for applications delivery.

7. Continuous process improvement infrastructuredefined and implemented.

8. Risk driven project management implemented.

9. Process library delivery routes controlled from the process librarian workstation.

10. Project management automated and controlled from the project manager’s workstation.

11. Knowledge transfer to completed.

12. Sustaining organization defined and implemented.

Concept Definition

Theconcept is that a methodology will dramatically improve ’s ability to deliver business applications in a timely, cost-effective, flexible, and quality manner. This concept will be achieved through:

• A proactively managed applications delivery environment;

• Process, technology, organization, people, and leadership factors all planned and integrated;

• A very highdegree of reuse through employment and enforcement of , standards, specifications, and reusable frameworks and components designed for flexibility; and

• An ongoing preventive maintenance program.

Areas of Impact

The IS project manager and teams will be the primary areas impacted by this project. During the deployment (concept validation, full-scale development, andimplementation) phases, the methodology project will fund for activities relating to deployment.

• Pathfinder projects will provide resources for training, to support customization of the process tool product, participate in project meetings, and support assessments. Specific resource requirements for each project will be determined at project start-up.

• Limited workstation servicessupport will be required to support tool implementation.

Risks

|Risk Area |Assessment |Impact |Mitigation |
|Leadership, Support and | |Project requires support by IS Department Heads |Dedicated change management effort. |
|Buy-In |High|for an enterprise infrastructure solution. | |
| | |Success of project depends on ability to staff |Use of 3rd party vendors to build |
|Staffing |Medium |with credible experience in the technical areas. |internal expertise; staffing assessment |
|| | |at each project review. |
| | |We developed an early estimate of 98 and 99 costs.|Develop a total life cycle cost estimate |
|Cost |Medium |However, we do not yet have a full understanding |during concept validation as part...