6. Readiness Phase Checkpoint

Hey, hey, we made it! OK, now we have created a vision, defined the scope, filled out the scope in to a full fledge project plan, designed and documented the MetaFrame Access environment, built and tested it and successfully completed a pilot. You have successfully completed another phase and have arrived at the second to last checkpoint.

The Readiness Phase Checkpoint document should contain the following sections:

       Preface

       Vision / Scope (Statement of Work)

       Infrastructure Assessment findings

       Proof of Concept assumptions and findings

       Statement of Work that defines scope, deliverables, estimated duration and costs for the design, Implementation, Readiness and Rollout phases.

       Server Design

q      Hardware Requirements

q      Operating Systems Requirements

       MetaFrame Access Suite Design

q      MetaFrame XP Architecture

o         MetaFrame XP Farm Design

o         MetaFrame XP Zone Design

o         MetaFrame XP Data Collector Design

o         MetaFrame XP Data Store Design

o         MetaFrame XP Load Management Design

o         Applications

o         MetaFrame Conferencing Manager Design

o         MetaFrame XP Printing Design

q      Application Delivery Architecture

o         MetaFrame XP Web Interface Design

o         MetaFrame Secure Access Manager Design

o         MetaFrame XP ICA Client Design

q      Security Architecture

o         Secure Gateway for MetaFrame Design

o         MetaFrame Password Manager Design

       Infrastructure Design

q      File Storage

q      Logon Scripts

q      Infrastructure Modifications

       Implementation Phase Installation Steps (to reproduce the MetaFrame Access Suite deployment)

       Readiness Phase Deliverable

q      Administration teams testing results

q      End-user feedback from Pilot

q      Change Management policies and procedures

Now that you have completed the Readiness phase you will be ready to call another meeting and present the test and pilot results to the customer. You will want to give them real feedback from their employees, this goes far in giving the customer a positive feeling about moving forward with the rollout.

Being a checkpoint you customer have the opportunity to continue with the project or bow out gracefully. If the customer chooses to bow out then you would have earned a few service dollars and a significant amount of additional knowledge and experience. You will have also left the customer and yourself with the knowledge that you are now a consultant and not just a break/fix engineer.

If the customer chooses to continue forward with the project then you will move forward to the Rollout phase to go-live with the deployment.

You will find the following Readiness Phase examples and templates located in Methodology in a Box 3.0. (MIAB3.0.ZIP)