Evolve Your Software Development Lifecycle Into a Solution Delivery Lifecycle

It’s "solution delivery," not "software development."

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Not having a documented and formal Solution DLC causes:

  • Misalignment between business and technology groups.
  • Ineffective use of resources as documentation is insufficient.
  • Teams are continually in emergency mode responding to challenges as opposed to being proactive.

Having a documented and formal Solution DLC enables:

  • A deeper partnership between Business and IT as there will be more alignment on requirements and needs.
  • An empowered team that proactively solves challenges that matter to the organization.
  • An improved ability to deliver on more complicated, multi-dimensional solutions.

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Module 1: Diagnose Your Current Software Development Lifecycle

The Purpose

  • Assess your current SDLC

Key Benefits Achieved

  • SDLC assessment and actionable insights

Activities: Outputs:
1.1 Build your SDLC diagnostic framework
1.2 Diagnose your current SDLC using your framework
  • Customized Diagnostic Framework
1.3 Diagnose Your Solution Delivery Lifecycle
1.4 Investigate the root cause of important issues and challenges
1.5 Investigate the root cause of important issues and challenges
  • Solution Delivery Lifecycle assessment and actionable insights

Module 2: Define Your Solution Delivery Lifecycle

The Purpose

  • Modernize your SDLC to a full solution delivery lifecycle framework.

Key Benefits Achieved

  • Common Solution DLC
  • Embedded quality and governance
  • Expanded awareness connecting product development with product management and operations
  • Support for Agile DevOps
  • Iterative development

Activities: Outputs:
2.1 Document Your Solution Delivery Lifecycle
2.2 Document business objectives that your Solution DLC impacts
2.3 Identify the practices and metrics to modernize your SDLC
2.4 Define your guiding principles
2.5 Define your documentation approach
2.6 Create your RACI chart
2.7 Intake – Document the current process
2.8 Intake – Identify role participation, control points, and artifacts/tools
2.9 Analysis – Document the current process
2.10 Analysis – Identify role participation, control points, and artifacts/tools
2.11 Design – Document the current process
2.12 Design – Identify role participation, control points, and artifacts/tools
2.13 Development – Document the current process
2.14 Development – Identify role participation, control points, and artifacts/tools
2.15 Testing – Document the current process
2.16 Testing – Identify role participation, control points, and artifacts/tools
2.17 Deployment – Document the current process
2.18 Deployment – Identify role participation, control points, and artifacts/tools
2.19 Maintenance – Document the current process
2.20 Maintenance – Identify role participation, control points, and artifacts/tools
  • Documented Solution Delivery Lifecycle framework
  • Solution DLC framework RACI

Module 3: Implement Your Solution Delivery Lifecycle

The Purpose

  • Develop your Solution DLC implementation plan

Key Benefits Achieved

  • Solution DLC stakeholder communication strategy, implementation plan, and metrics

Activities: Outputs:
3.1 Identify stakeholders and participants
3.2 Visualize relationships to identify key influencers
3.3 Group stakeholders into categories
3.4 Classify and prioritize stakeholders by level of support
3.5 Analyze the relationship between your solution teams and stakeholders
  • Solution DLC stakeholder communication strategy
3.6 Plan Your Solution Delivery Lifecycle OCM
3.7 Define your messaging for each stakeholder
3.8 Start your “now/next/later” roadmap
3.9 Mitigate the risks of implementing your Solution DLC
3.10 Prioritize initiative sequencing
  • Solution DLC implementation plan
3.11 Implement Your Solution Delivery Lifecycle
3.12 Define the metrics that will gauge your success
  • Implementation metrics
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