The effective technology should propel your business forward.

Defining the business drivers for the technology implementation

• Business drivers and needs of information technology
• Technical business processes
• Trends in technology and software
• Trends in software development
• Innovations in software packages and knowledge management

Developing the IT plan in support of the business strategy

• Understanding the business processes
• How to build your technical processes
• Steps in implementing the technology
• Pitfalls to avoid
• Success measures

Outsourcing assessment

• What can be outsourced
• Cost savings or business benefits
• Steps in outsourcing
• Transition schedule
• Success measure

Software development processes and maps

• Defining the requirements
• Build vs buy
• Solution prototyping
• Identify skills required by the development team
• Building the development plan
• Developing the detailed requirements
• Prototyping & validation
• Managing the development cycle
• Defining the test plans, phases and sign-off criteria
• Managing progress reviews
• Testing sign-off

Hardware implementations and upgrade

• Defining the requirements
• Buy vs lease
• Solution prototyping
• Identify skills required by the technical team
• Building the upgrade or transition plans
• Cold and warm testing
• Managing the transition cycle
• Defining the test plans, phases and sign-off criteria
• Managing progress reviews
• Testing sign-off

Production

• User acceptance testing & sign-off
• Parallel implementations and burn-in phase
• Managing final sign-off and the go live Switch