Creating a Deployment Roadmap
Creating a Deployment Roadmap |
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After you have completed your feature design and development, and thoroughly tested your feature configurations, you are ready to conduct a pilot project. The deployment team needs to set a number of interim delivery milestones, each of which involves solutions development, testing, validating against prespecified performance criteria, and redesign. Tracking deployment issues and efficiently resolving them is vital to reaching your deployment goals while remaining on schedule and within budget.
After your pilot project is running and stable, your sponsor and the deployment team can meet to assess the functionality of the new Windows 2000 infrastructure and verify that production rollout and support plans are in place. During this phase, primary milestones and deployment documents can include:
Additional deployment documents you might want to develop include:
During this phase, you will adjust your designs based upon pilot testing. You will notice changes that need to be made because you are integrating the designs of each feature you will deploy and then testing those designs to ensure appropriate integration.
For more information about validating and testing your Windows 2000 Server deployment plan through proof-of-concept lab testing and a pilot, see "Building a Windows 2000 Test Lab" and "Conducting Your Windows 2000 Pilot " in this book.
For more information about testing applications compatibility with Windows 2000 Professional, see "Testing Applications for Compatibility with Windows 2000" in this book.