Summarize at-a-glance the purpose and approach for undertaking an application development project, for the benefit of your senior level management as well as your customer.
If you and your team have a bunch of application development tools to evaluate, use this form to make the job easier.
Need to design any job steps as batch procedures? Here's a comprehensive template to use in specifying how the procedure should be coded and all the pertinent associated information.
Planning a project necessitates analyzing your client's business and determining system requirements based on business structure. What business areas will be addressed, how do they translate to functionality, and how is that functionality prioritized? Start with an organizational mapping of business areas to functions, like this example from the insurance/finance industry.
User involvement is key to designing an effective application and a good user interface. Give the business users a template of standards and procedures to follow so that they can describe how they do their work, including workflow, and thus how the application should work for them.
Designing a client/server architecture for a distributed application? Use this form to help you make intelligent decisions.
How does your system development project account for software version changes? Backup and recovery of data and files? Requirements changes? Check your score on software configuration management so that you can avoid pitfalls down the road.
The system is ready for testing, and you'd better check to see if everything is there. Formalize the hand-off process between the development team and the testing team with this checklist and signoff form.
When designing a GUI, you need to define properties for the individual window controls, or widgets. This control property matrix will help you define how your GUI should work.
Improved deliverable! The new CIS system isn't ready for prime time until business users have tested it. This plan provides guidance on the how, who, when, where, why and what of acceptance testing.
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