Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Apps - Second Edition

Project management aspects of design

The following are a few pointers for project managers to consider during the design phase of the project:

• The fit-gap analysis, requirements analysis, and the project plan need to be signed off to start the functional design phase. You can break them up into areas and start sooner if you have specific areas signed off.
• Make the team put together the overall functional architecture and the flow across applications, and review with the respective stakeholders.
• Start with the functional design for areas on which the rest of the solution has a dependency. For example, customer and product masters are essential for the downstream supply chain, invoicing processes, and others.
• Dedicate resources for large, ...