Application Assembly Approach Phases

Scoping

• Discover requirements
• Prioritize requirements with stakeholders
• Shape and estimate initiative

Prototype

• Screen mock-ups
• Recommend and choose components
• Build architecturally-significant functionality
• Refine requirements and estimates

Design

• Evolve prototype
• Define application integration
• Create technical and functional design documentation with UML
• Plan assembly & development phase

Assemble & Develop

• Apply information architecture and creative design
• Development
• QA: unit, integration, system
• Finalize user and technical documentation
• Plan transition & support

Support & Transition

• User acceptance testing
• Train users and administrators
• Transition to in-house development team and/or Optaros support
• Migrate to production data and environment
• Select maintenance option