Overview



The distribution of the above-mentioned activities between the client location and DataLink offshore is provided below:

Primarily Onsite Activities Primarily Offshore Activities
Project Planning
Requirements analysis
Architecture Design
Proof of Concept
Functional Design
Logical Database Design
Physical Database Design
Set up development environment
User Acceptance Test
Implementation		 Low level design
Test Planning
Build and Unit Test
Integration and System Test

Business Process Design and Re-engineering


Project Planning

Parameter Description
Entry Criteria Project SOW signed
Location Onsite
Participants Program Manager
Onsite Domain Consultant
Onsite Principal Architect
Client core team
Key Activities 1)Help the client identify their staff for the core team
2)Understand the client’ business objectives and their Product/Application vision
3)Initiate the project with a kick-off meeting between the client and DataLink core teams
4)Client will make available the infrastructure and resources required for this engagement
5)Choose templates and checklists for key project deliverables
6)Perform high level estimation for the project and create a high level project schedule
7)Define various project processes and identify roles and responsibilities
8)Create communication plan and escalation plan
9)Create configuration management plan
10)Conduct cost benefit analysis
Deliverables 1)Project Plan
2)High Level schedule
3)Communication Management Plan
4)Configuration Management Plan
5)Templates for key project deliverables
Exit Criteria Signoff on Project Plan, Schedule, Communication Management Plan and Configuration Management Plan from the clients’ stakeholders

Requirements Analysis


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria Project Plan signed off
Location Primarily Onsite
Participants Program Manager
Onsite Domain Consultant
Onsite Principal Architect
Client core team
Key Activities 1)Identify stakeholders from functional and technical areas
2)Interview stakeholders to gather functional, technical, user interface, and reporting requirements
3)Identify all non functional requirements including information protection and security requirements
4)Identify interface requirements and, based on that, prepare integration requirements
5)Collate, refine, and prioritize all requirements
6)Prepare Requirements Specification document
7)Define and analyze data conversion/migration requirements, if any
8)Develop business workflow model
9)Develop use cases
10)Prepare Application prototype, if applicable
11)Present UI prototypes to stakeholders and refine requirements based on the same
12)Prepare Acceptance Criteria document
13)Conduct internal review of Requirements Specification and Acceptance Criteria documents
14)Review Requirements Specification and Acceptance Criteria documents by client stakeholders
Deliverables 1)Requirements Specification document
2)UI Prototypes
3)Requirements Specification standards
4)Minutes of meetings with users, and notes
5)Requirements Specification review records
Exit Criteria Signoff of Requirements Specifications from the client

High-level Design


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria Signed off Requirements Specifications
Location Onsite/Offshore
Participants Design team leader
Design team
Design Review team
Client Core team
Key Activities 1)Define architecture including:
I.Identifying functional off-the-shelf packages/components that can fulfill whole or part of the project requirements
II.Conducting gap analysis between package functionality and project requirements, where applicable
III.Select packages to be implemented as part of the functional solution along with customization requirements and interfaces to be developed
IV.Define functional architecture for subsystems/modules to be custom developed
2)Review and sign off functional architecture
3)Evaluate and select third party technology products that would form part of the architecture
4)Develop proof of concept to validate the selected technology architecture
5)Define standards for the design and development activities
6)Perform process and data modeling
7)Develop high-level design of Application flow
8)Logical database design
9)Physical database design
10)Map existing database, if any, to new database
11)Perform high-level design of data conversion modules
12)Prepare screen and report layouts
13)Prepare Functional Design Specifications document
14)Prepare Integration and System Test plans
15)Verify traceability between requirements, design artifacts and test plans
16)Review and stake-holder sign-off of key HLD deliverables
17)Set up development environment
Deliverables 1)High-Level Design documents
2)Functional Design document
3)Operating Environment Architecture document
4)Database Design document
5)High-level design review records
Exit Criteria High-level Design documents reviewed and authorized

Detailed Design


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria High-Level Design documents reviewed and authorized
Location Onsite/Offshore
Participants Development team leader
Development team
Key Activities 1)Break down functions into their components
2)Design/Develop gateways/bridge routines
3)Design/Develop data migration programs
4)Design/Develop program skeletons using a case tool
5)Develop utilities/tools
6)Develop program design
7)Review Program Specifications
8)Plan unit testing
9)Review Unit Test Plan
10)Explore the possibility of making reusable components
11)Plan for using reusable components
Deliverables 1)Program Specifications
2)Unit Test plan
3)Program Skeletons
4)Utilities/Tools
5)Utilities/Tools document
6)Detailed Design review records
Exit Criteria Program Specifications reviewed and authorized

Build and unit testing


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria High-Level Design documents reviewed and authorized
Location Primarily Offshore
Participants Development team leader
Development team
Key Activities 1)Generate test database
2)Generate Code
I.Code programs
II.Conduct code review
III.Conduct self unit test
IV.Conduct Independent unit test
3)Explore the possibility of making reusable components
4)Plan for using reusable components
Deliverables 1)Test data
2)Source code
3)Executables
4)Code review report/review records
5)Self unit test report/review records
6)Independent unit test report/review records
Exit Criteria All test cases in the Unit Test Plans successfully executed

Integration Planning


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria High-level Design documents reviewed and authorized
Location Primarily Offshore
Participants Integration team leader
Integration team
Key Activities 1)Identify environmental needs
2)Determine integration procedure
3)Develop integration plan
4)Review integration plan
Deliverables 1)Integration plan
2)Integration plan review records
Exit Criteria Integration plan reviewed and authorized

Integration TEST


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria Integration plan reviewed and authorized Test data provided by the client
Location Primarily Offshore
Participants Integration team leader
Integration team
Development team
Key Activities 1)Prepare for integration
I.Study integration plan
II.Set up integration environment
2)Conduct integration test
Deliverables 1)Integration environment
2)Integration test data
3)Integrated and base-lined software
4)Integration test report/review records
Exit Criteria All test cases in the integration plan successfully executed

System Test Planning


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria Requirements Specification document reviewed and authorized High-level Design documents reviewed and authorized
Location Onsite/Offshore
Participants System test team leader
System Test team
Key Activities 1)Identify environmental needs
2)Determine system test procedure
3)Develop test cases
4)Review system test plan
5)Plan for multiple environments testing
Deliverables System test plan
Exit Criteria System test plan reviewed and authorized

System Testing


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria System test plan reviewed and authorized Software completely integrated and base-lined Test data provided by the client
Location Onsite/Offshore
Participants System Test team
Development team
Key Activities 1)Prepare for system test
2)Study system test plan
3)Set up system test environment
4)Conduct system test in multiple environments
Deliverables 1)System test environments
2)System test data
3)System test software
4)System test report
Exit Criteria All test cases in the system test plan successfully executed
All system-tested code and documents base-lined

Acceptance and Installation


Parameter Description
Entry Criteria System test completed and the client is ready to start β - testing
Location Primarily Onsite
Participants Client
Development team
Project manager
Key Activities 1)Perform data migration
2)Prepare user training manuals
3)Prepare Installation Kit
4)Plan for acceptance
5)Prepare for acceptance
I.Perform trial installation
II.Establish defect fixing procedures
6)Participate in acceptance
III.Support Application installation in acceptance environment
IV.Help client to conduct acceptance testing
V.Obtain acceptance signoff from the client
7)Conduct client/end-user training
8)Support product release and perform release management
9)Provide β – testing support
10)Support transition to GA phase
11)Move on to product maintenance phase
Deliverables Client Acceptance Signoff document
β – testing reports
User manuals and training material
Installation Kit
Exit Criteria Acceptance signoff from the client