Question

1) For the following Business Cycle Phases listed (Provide objectives and at least two deliverables from each phase)

• Initiation Phase: Make the business case for the project. Work also begins on the user experience and on architectural proof of concepts.

• Discovery Phase: Conduct investigation leading to an understanding of the solution’s desired behavior

• Construction Phase: Complete the analysis and design, code, integrate, and test the software

• Final V & V Phase : Perform final testing before the product or service is transitioned into production

• Closeout Phase: Manage and coordinate deployment into production and close the IT project.

                                                                                                         

SUBJECT : MODERN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Answer 1

Answer :1

For the following Business Cycle Phases listed, their objectives and at least two deliverables from each phase are as below

· Initiation Phase: This is the first phase in the project management and its objective is to collect all the necessary information for the project in the form of charter and get approval from all the stakeholder so that the project charter get approved and they can start working on it.

Deliverable from this phase are as below

• Charter i.e. business case approved by all stakeholders.

• Project team formed and approved by stakeholders.

· Discovery Phase: This is the second phase of project management whose objective is to discover all the key information needed for the project and its probable solution and get reviewed with all stakeholders.

Deliverable from this phase are as below

• Project information discovery process is completed
• Project discovery is reviewed and analyzed by project team members.

· Construction Phase: This is important phase of the project management whose objective is to make construction work deigned, analyzed, planned, executed, tested and meets the project expectation.

Deliverable from this phase are as below

• Project design is developed, analyzed and freezed.
• Project construction work executed and tested

· Final V & V Phase: The objective of this phase is to perform the final testing to confirm that the project meets the desired expectations are achieved in the project construction.

· Deliverable from this phase are as below

• Final testing is performed before transitioned into production live.
• User testing is completed and approved by user.

· Closeout Phase: The objective of this project management phase is to complete the transition into production phase and handed over to user and closes the project.

Deliverable from this phase are as below

• Project is transitioned into production live
• The IT project is closed satisfactorily.