Package Release Strategy
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You'll need a strategy to define how, when, where and what pieces of the new application will be released to the organization.
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System Change Specifications
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Legacy systems must be modified to integrate a new application package. Use these tables to define, track and prioritize the changes to each legacy system and system component.
Technology Change Specifications
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This matrix will help you define the changes you'll have to make to the existing hardware/software environment so that the application package will work properly.
Design Process Checkpoints
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Does your project team and your client know what the project milestones should look like? Describe the progressive milestones and their relationship to the rest of the project, as in this example of the design phase of an application development project.
Application Package Implementation Success Factors
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These tips from the trenches offer valuable advice for any project team about to implement an application package.
System Scope
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This matrix will help you determine which systems and their components will be replaced, changed or impacted by the new application package.
Integration Test Change Request
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Integration testing ensures that each component of the application you develop works correctly within the system as a whole. Record any errors discovered through integration testing and request system changes using this form.
Touch Points Template
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Because many systems are modular and large ERP application suites can contain hundreds of subsystems, the need exists to diagram system functionality at a detailed enough stakeholder level to understand impacts. Thus, a person assessing a system needs to identify all of the modules and all of the places where people are affected by the system. In other words, these are points where the direct and indirect stakeholders are touched by the system. Use this "Touch Point" template for help.
Test Environment Specifications
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Specify what your application package testing environment should consist of and how it should be configured.
Pilot Project Standards
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You're about to conduct a pilot project using a packaged application. What documentation and files will you need to do it right?
Application Package Vendor RFI
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This is not a typical request for information that goes on forever in boring text, putting you and your potential vendors in a coma. It is a useful matrix that succinctly itemizes nearly every criterion for selecting an application vendor.
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