Project Planning 101
1. Project Request
1.1. What are the goals of the project?
1.2. What measurement is needed to say the project is completed with success?
1.3. What is a list of items that this application needs to accomplish?
1.4. Who are the stakeholders for the application?
2. Project Plan
2.1. Business Analysis
2.1.1. Create a Context Diagram of the System with the stakeholders.
2.1.2. Create Business Process Maps for the system
2.1.3. Create a conceptual Data Model
2.2. System Analysis
2.2.1. Activity Diagrams
2.2.2. State Model
2.2.3. Logical Data Model
2.2.4. UI Prototypes
2.2.5. Customer Sign off on Prototype and Diagrams at this point.
2.3. System Documentation
2.3.1. Use Cases
2.4. System Design
2.4.1. Sequence Diagrams
2.4.2. Collaboration Diagrams
2.4.3. Class Design Diagrams
2.4.4. Physical Data Model
2.5. System Construction
2.5.1. Front End Components
2.5.2. Screens
2.5.3. Coded Classes
2.5.4. Physical Database
3. Project Deployment Test Server
3.1. Create Scripts for deployment
3.2. Images
3.3. Files
3.4. Database
3.5. Externals
4. Testing
4.1. Functional
4.2. Performance
5. Project Deployment Production Server
5.1. Run Scripts for deployment
