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milestones

 – events that need to happen on 

a particular date are defined for which performance against objectives can be measured.

Milestone

Key deadline to be 

achieved during project, 

usually with defined 

deliverable.

Figure 10.6

Stages in developing a digital business solution

Analysis

Requirements

specification

Change

requests

Prototype

produced

Design, test

specification

Design

Test and

review

Develop

Internet

Initiation

Feasibility analysis, project planning

Change and risk management

PROTOTYPING

Change management (Chapter 10)

Implementation and maintenance (Chapter 12)

Analysis and design (Chapter 11)

Key

Final implementation

System and acceptance testing

Data migration and changeover

Maintenance

Monitoring and enhancing

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Chapter 10  Change management

The project plan and schedule for a digital business system

The project plan for a digital business system will involve all of the stages shown in Figure 10.6. 

This diagram also shows how the final part of the book is structured.

● 

In this chapter we review the activities needed during the 

initiation

 phase of a project that 

involves the creation of a change management programme including project planning, 

managing organisational change and risk management. In this chapter we do not consider 

feasibility analysis since assessment of the costs and benefits of the digital business system 

have already been considered as an aspect of strategy as described in Part 2.

● 

In Chapter 11 the analysis and design phases are described. In these the requirements of 

the organisation and users of the system are defined and translated into a design from 

which the system can be built. Analysis and design occur in an iterative fashion through 

prototyping as described in the section that follows.

● 

In Chapter 12 the final stages of developing the digital business system are described. 

These include writing the program code, building the databases, migrating data, testing 

the system and managing the changeover to the live system. Chapter 12 also describes the 

maintenance of the system once it is live. This is monitoring the system and enhancing it 

as bugs and opportunities arise.

These stages in developing a digital business system use  well‑  established approaches to 

building IS based on the