While you are running the bases of project management, your stakeholders are wondering “When are we going to see the benefits of this project?”
Deployment Planning is the process of figuring out which business units will receive which new system functionality, business processes and tools and when they will receive them.
Why invest in deployment planning?
To ensure that you optimize costs and benefits over time.
Some changes to roles, processes, technology must take place right away – NOW!
Some are better planned as your short term follow-on activities – Next
Some may occur in a second phase of the project or initiative – Later
Here’s a little Deployment Planning Algorithm for really geeky project managers:
Optimized Deployment = (Now+Next+Later)/Time
This probably seems really obvious and simple. It is if your project is small. It gets exponentially more complicated with scale. Given the multitude of dependencies you are balancing such as business requirements, customer requirements, budgets, process hand-offs, training development and executive schedules, a step-by-step approach to your Now-Next-Later Deployment Plan is a critical success factor for most large projects.
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