General Participation

Although the deployment project begins with a single application, the requirements of other internal customers should be assessed at the same time so that a general purpose system can be built. The central IT group should be able to accommodate the diverse criteria and schedules of the satellite groups in order to provide service that is representative of the larger organization. Schedules must have sufficiently large windows, allowing the satellite groups time to build changes and upgrades into their application’s deployment and quality assurance (QA) cycle.