Creating a Deployment Roadmap
Creating a Deployment Roadmap |
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Every deployment project goes through a life cycle — a process that includes determining IT goals and objectives, designing and developing features, conducting a pilot project, and installing the new operating system in your production environment. The principal function of a project planning process is to establish the order that your deployment team specifies, implements, tests, and performs the required activities.
Figure 2.2 illustrates a sample project management process for deploying Windows 2000. Each phase is listed at the top of the figure. The main body of the figure contains tasks you need to accomplish during the various phases of deployment and gives suggestions of Windows 2000 technologies you might consider for deployment.
Figure 2.2 Sample Project Management Process for Windows 2000
The two bars near the bottom of the figure refer to a test lab. Testing is an integral part of Windows 2000 deployment that you will use throughout the whole deployment process.
Each of the four project management steps illustrated in Figure 2.2 is described in the following sections.
