1. Strategy

2. Strategy Phases
Strategy Plan
Strategy Document

3. Strategy Plan Phase Contents of Strategy Document
Sources of information
Personnel and organization for Document Phase
Identifying end of Document Phase
Who will sign off

4. Strategy Document Phase
Ends with the sign off: A common vision between customer and developer
Developers persuade customer they understand what is needed.
Includes all information gathering, documentation preparation, diagramming leading to strategy deliverables

5. Strategy Deliverables
Strategy document: high level overview
Current and new business processes
Current and new info structures
Plans and narratives
Contract
Protects Developers
Preliminary Project Plan

6. Purposes of Strategy Doc
Define Project: Scope, Deliverables, Assumptions, Limitations
Communicate Nature of Project
Sell the Project

7. Full Scale Strategy Document
Executive Summary
Project Environment
Proposed Solution
Project Plan

8. Executive Summary Vital Section Important Sections
Concise project description
Who is affected
Motivation
Solution
Costs/Benefits

9. Environment of Project
Current System
History
Requirements
Related Projects
interfaces
limitations
Politics
Organizational structure
Needs
Conflict resolution
Project Rationale

10. Proposed Solution What will be built H/W S/W Requirements Deliverables
Costs & Benefits
Business Impact
Projected costs
Diagrams
Strategy ERD
PFDs
Narratives and Sample Tables for ERDs
What project is not (Scope)

11. Project Plan
Staffing
Phases and Documents
Time and cost ranges

12. Designer in Strategy Document management Process Modeling ER Modeling
Versioning