Business Communication Plan

Definition

The business communication plan is the deployment work product that documents the customer’s plans for communicating the new reengineered business.

Objectives

The typical objectives of the business communication plan are to:

• Document plans for communicating the new reengineerd businss:
  • Internally within the customer organization.
  • Externally to the users of the customer's applications.

Benefits

• TBD

Contents

• Internal Communication Plans
• External Communication Plans
• Appendices:
  • Major Issues
  • TBDs
  • Assumptions

Stakeholders

• Producers:
  • TBD
• Evaluators:
  • Strategy Inspection Team
• Approvers:
  • Technical Leader
  • Project Manager
  • Customer Representative
• Maintainer: TBD
• Users:
  • TBD.

Phases

• Business Strategy: Started
• Business Optimization: Completed
• Initiation: Not Applicable
• Construction: Not Applicable
• Delivery: Not Applicable
• Usage: Not Applicable
• Retirement: Not Applicable

Preconditions

• The construction phase is started.
• The TBD team has been staffed.
• TBD

Inputs

• Work Products:
  • TBD
• Stakeholders:
  • Domain Expert

Guidelines

• This is a living document that is developed incrementally and iteratively in parallel with other documents.

Conventions

Business communication plans are typically constrained by the following conventions:

• Content and Format Standard
• MS Word Template
• XML DTD Template
• Inspection Checklist

Examples

• Example Business Communication Plan