| Activity | Description | Signoff | Tools & Templates |
| Design Solution | Develop, document and review a detailed product design so that developers and other downstream project team members have adequate specifications to complete development and unit test work. | ||
| Obtain Development & Test Privileges | Setup access to the development and test environments for the project team and testers. | ||
| Create Functional Test Plan | Determine and document the functional test plan so that test scripts, resources and the test environment are ready when needed. Functional tests focus on testing the end-to-end process and product. | Functional Test Checklist Functional Test Plan |
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| Review Control Activities | Review the existing control activities to ensure that the project adheres to relative control activities and identifies possible changes/additions to current control activities so that environments and processes are not negatively impacted. | GIS Compliance Manager Business Process Owner |
GIS SORCA Reports |
| Create Training Plan | Includes training objectives, success criteria, desired results, critical issues, risks, assumptions and constraints. Training may be formal or informal and may take several forms (class, on-line, documentation to be read, etc.). NOTE: Manager signoff required only if expenses are involved. |
Managers (if expenses) |
Training Plan |
| Create Maintenance & Support Turnover Plan | Includes working with support teams to identify requirements to ensure successful turnover of the project solution to the support teams, and verifying accuracy of the disaster recovery and WORP documentation. | Maintenance & Support Turnover Plan | |
| Conduct Design Quality Audit | This is a formal Quality Assurance audit of the project folder to ensure that all documents due at the end of the design phase has been created, stored in the correct project folder sub-directory and comply with GIS standards. | Design Quality Audit Request (R) QA Corrective Action (R) |
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| Review Design, Cost Plan & Schedule | The activity is a formal gate review which is performed in two steps - an internal review and an external review. In addition to covering a summary of the various design elements, outstanding issues, action items, accomplishments, risk mitigations and next steps, the final estimates should be reviewed to determine if GIS management and/or sponsor approval is needed to proceed. | Sponsor Requestor Project Manager |
Design, Cost Plan & Schedule Signoff (R) Meeting Minutes (R) Review Presentation |
Last Update: September ??, 2004
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