Business Transition Plan

Definition

Business Transition Plan

the integration work product that formally documents the customer organization’s plans for transitioning the business processes of its business enterprise to implement its new business strategy

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, a business transition plan are part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Plan
• Subclasses: None

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of a business transition plan are to:

• Document the plans for transitioning the customer’s business processes to meet the new business strategy.

Contents

• Business Strategy
• Gap Analysis
• New Capabilities
• New Technologies
• New Systems
• Appendices

Stakeholders

• Producers:
  • Business Strategy Team, which produces most of the document.
  • Technology Strategy Team, which may provide input into the constraints section.
• Evaluators:
  • Strategy Inspection Team
  • Customer Organization, which inspects the content for correctness
• Approvers:
  • Technical Leader
  • Project Manager
  • Customer Representative
• Maintainer: Business Strategy Team
• Users:
  • The requirements team uses the AVS as a source of requirements.

Phases

• Business Strategy: Created
• Business Optimization: Maintained
• Initiation: Not Applicable
• Construction: Not Applicable
• Initial Production: Not Applicable
• Full-Scale Production: Not Applicable
• Delivery: Not Applicable
• Usage: Not Applicable
• Retirement: Not Applicable

Preconditions

The business process transition plan typically can be started if the following preconditions hold:

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

Inputs

• Work products:
  • Business Vision Statement
• Stakeholders:
  • Domain Expert

Guidelines

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

Conventions

• Content and Format Standard
• Template
• Inspection Checklist

Examples

• Example Business Process Transition Plan