Are you ready to start down the path?
The message has come down from the mountain —- thee shall have funding!
What does this mean in your organization? You may have a team of dedicated resources with a long standing governance board with a process for everything or you may have a noun, a verb, and a prayer.
Here are some things to keep in mind as you move toward defining the rest of your triangle:
Do minor stakeholders have any say? Do they only attend UAT and road shows?
What is the escalation process of your dependent systems? Departments?
Do you need work streams? Can you run several concurrent efforts?
Do your business stakeholders have the staff to support document and prototype and training reviews? All at once?
What major holidays will happen for your extended team? Need Europe in August?
Take some time today to look past the glee of approval and think about how you are selling your team structure and how it fits your approvers’ needs going forward:
Does the Development team think in terms of feature but your upstream systems think only in terms of transaction timing.
Does your “Train the Trainer” work stream include people who have never had access to this system? This domain? This business process?
While this may be a manic Monday take some time to think about how you can ask the right questions before the plan is a glimmer in management’s eye!
Here is a great resource for helping to think forward and build the right process even in the most agile environment by getting the right people to the table early:
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