Best Practices and Methodology for Electronic Software Distribution and Operating System Provisioning in an On Demand Business

128 Best Practices & Methodology for Electronic Software Distribution & Operating System Provisioning

6.4.1 Analyzing the OSP Change Order

The purpose of the Analyze the OSP Change Order activity of the OSP Building

Site process is to provide technical feasibility approval related to proceeding

further with implementing the OSP Change Order, and to validate estimated

resource requirements for the OSP Change Management Coordinator, based

upon a review and analysis of the OSP Change Order, OSP Deployment Plan,

and associated technical documentation.

Tasks

The following tasks are performed during the Analyze the OSP Change Order

activity:

򐂰 Validating Change Specific OSI Deployment Plan for Building Site

This is performed by the Solution Architect, assisted by the Project Manager.

The purpose of this task is to validate the OS Imaging plan provided by the

Change Management Delivery Project Manager and to confirm resource

requirements.

The Change Order and associated documentation is received from the

Change Management Delivery Project Manager by the Building Site Solution

Architect. It is then reviewed by the Solution Architect and the Building Site

Project Manager for completion, accuracy, and detail. A technical feasibility

for implementing the change is conducted by the Solution Architect based on

the technical OSP architecture and the business details provided along with

the Change Order.

򐂰 Confirming Resource Requirements with OSP Change Management

Coordinator

This is performed by the Project Manager, assisted by the Solution Architect.

The purpose of this task is to validate the estimated resource requirements

with the ESD Change Management Coordinator. As part of the analysis

performed by the Building Site Solution Architect and the Building Site Project

Manager, they validate the estimated resource requirements provided to them

as part of the Operating System Imaging plan by the Change Management

Delivery Project Manager.

Inputs and outputs

Input from any of the following external processes may be required during the

Analyze the OSP change order activity of the OSP Building site process:

򐂰 Architecture Overview Diagram

򐂰 Change order

򐂰 OS Imaging plan

򐂰 Operational model