Key takeaways
- Phase F turns work packages into approved projects with dates and resources.
- It finalizes the roadmap and plan that Phase E drafted.
- The plan must fit the change portfolio and existing management frameworks.
- Decision-makers must understand the value and cost of each work package and transition.
- The Implementation Governance Model prepares Phase G.
Purpose and essential knowledge
The practitioners’ guide gives Phase F a concrete result: an approved set of projects, each with its objective, any constraints, the resources required, and start and finish dates. Where Phase E reasoned in work packages, Phase F reasons in fundable projects.
The standard presents it as the way to move from Baseline to Target by finalizing a detailed Implementation and Migration Plan.
- The resources available to undertake the change
- How stakeholder priorities and preferences adjust to value, effort, and risk
Phase F objectives
The three objectives stress finalization, coordination with the rest of the enterprise, and decision-makers’ understanding of what is at stake.
- Finalize the Architecture Roadmap and the Implementation and Migration Plan that supports it
- Align that plan with how the enterprise manages and delivers change across its overall portfolio
- Help key stakeholders understand the business value and cost of work packages and Transition Architectures
Key steps
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Phase F steps move through framing, assessment, prioritization, and closing the cycle. The first is to confirm how the plan interacts with four management frameworks: business planning, Enterprise Architecture, portfolio and project management, and operations management.
- Confirm interactions with the enterprise’s management frameworks
- Assign a business value to each work package
- Estimate resource needs, project durations, and delivery vehicles
- Prioritize migration projects through cost/benefit analysis and risk validation
- Confirm the roadmap, update the Architecture Definition Document, and complete the plan
- Close the architecture development cycle and document lessons learned
Phase F outputs
Phase F delivers the finalized versions of the main architecture deliverables, prepares implementation governance, and may trigger further work. Lessons learned can also feed improvements to the architecture capability itself.
- Detailed Implementation and Migration Plan and finalized Architecture Roadmap
- Finalized Architecture Definition Document and Architecture Requirements Specification, Transition Architectures
- Implementation Governance Model
- Requests for Architecture Work for the architecture aspects of projects, Change Requests targeting the architecture capability
TERMS TO KNOW
The terms, in context.
- Implementation and Migration Plan
- A plan that orders, schedules, and resources the projects leading from Baseline to Target; initial in E, detailed in F.
- Implementation Governance Model
- A description of the processes, structures, roles, and measures that will frame project delivery.
- Business Value Assessment
- A technique that positions each work package by business value and risk to help prioritize.
- Management frameworks
- Business planning, Enterprise Architecture, portfolio and project, operations: the four arrangements the plan must fit with.