7 Questions to Ask When Preparing a Solution for Deployment

Lonnie Pacelli is an Accenture/Microsoft veteran with four decades of learnings under his belt. He frequently writes and speaks on leadership, project management, work/life balance, and disability inclusion. Reach him at [email protected] and see more at ProjectManagementAdvisor.com.

  Product Management  

In this series I am outlining 42 questions that a product manager should ensure are answered across the following SDLC phases:

• Product Strategy – The reason a product exists, and its intended goals.
• Product Roadmapping – The broad timeline in which future product capabilities are slated for release.
• Initiative Planning – The definition of a project to deliver capabilities within a budget and schedule timeline.
• Solution Design – The people, process, systems and policy designs required to deliver the required capabilities.
• Solution Development – The people, process, systems, and policy capabilities have been developed and are ready for testing, training, and deployment planning.
• Solution Readiness – All solution aspects are accepted and ready to be deployed.

In the prior article I focused on seven product manager’s accountabilities when developing a solution. This article focuses on seven questions to be asked when preparing a solution for deployment.

1. Have the policy, process, people, and technology components been user acceptance tested and accepted? Ensuring the UAT plan encompasses all the business system components is only a subset of the product manager’s UAT accountability. I see the product manager ensuring UAT results have been accepted by the affected stakeholders based on an organization’s …

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