Application Communication Plan

Definition

The application communication plan is the deployment work product that documents the customer’s plans for communicating the new application to its stakeholders.

Objectives

• Document plans for communicating the application:
  • Internally within the customer organization, maintenance organization, operations organization, support organization.
  • Externally to the users of the application.

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: Not Applicable
• Business Optimization: Not Applicable
• Initiation: Not Applicable
• Construction: Started
• Delivery: Completed
• 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

Application 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