Spidel Tech Solutions, Inc.

Plans

Scopes of planning documents

Program Plan

A program plan is an overall plan to invest in the development of a line of products that may be related in arbitrary ways. They might be related to; Hair Care, automobile architectures, space exploration. The point is multiple related product life cycles are involved.

Product Plan

A product plan is an overall plan to invest in the life cycle of a new product. This can be a subset of a program plan.

It includes a business case and a budgetary plan. Product planners interact with systems engineers to establish the corporate requirements for the product including its niche in the suite of company products.

Project Plans

A project plan is a specific quantity of effort to be managed as a unit. A project plan includes a work breakdown structure. This lists all the categories of tasks to perform and allocates blocks of time to each. The project plan template defines the typical tasks in a software project. Some of the categories are listed below

Task	Description
Product planning	Product decisions influenced by proposed project.
Project Plan Development	Identification of relevant tasks on this list an roughing in the schedule
Contract Signing	All involved companies agree to standard contract, final project plan and statement of work.
Site Planning	Supplier surveys customer site for suitability
Installation Plan	Plan for how system will be installed on customer premises
Travel Plan	Determination of the level of travel allowed during the execution of the project.
Requirements Analysis	Exploration of the sources of requirements as well as prototyping
Requirements Writing	Refining definitions of product assets
Requirements Review	Meetings to review requirements definitions
Logical Physical Allocation	Determination of what features will be implemented in hardware and software.
Test Planning	Plan to test product during life cycle
Support Plan	Plan to support product with various services such as onsite and telephone support.
Requirements approval	Agreement that written requirements capture features to be supported as part of this project.
Validation Testing	Reconciling requirements to needs, tests and designs. Reconciling designs to implementation.
High Level Design	Design of components described in requirements
High Level Design Review	agreement that design issues have been sufficiently resolved.
High Level Design Approval	High level design is frozen for implementation
Implementation	Coding and fabrication of custom components.
Code Review	Review of implementation by independent reviewer
Unit Tests	Private testing of individual components
Packaging	Assembling of complete deliverable package at scheduled intervals
User Guide Development	Writing user guide from use and requirements
Training Guide Development	Writing custom training materials
Training Class	Conducting; online, in-house or onsite training
Ordering Equipment	Purchase of third party equipment to be used in purchased product.
Verification Testing	Scheduled audit of development process
Final Assembly	Assembly of entire system in factory for final testing
Final Test	Test of all equipment communications
Executive Sign Off	Agreement that system is ready to ship to customer site.
Regression Testing	Load and stress testing to determine performance envelope
Alpha Testing	Complete system test in controlled environment
Beta Testing	Complete system test in limited customer environments
Site Preparation	Adjusting customer premises to suit new system installation
Shipping	Disassembly of system after final test for shipment to customer site
Installation	Installation on customer premises
Acceptance Testing	Testing preapproved by customer to demonstrate fitness for use
Project Review	Various meetings to share project status and resolve open issues.

A project manager develops and manages against this plan. He conducts project reviews and assures that issues are resolved in a timely fashion.

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