Project Preparation

When we are engineering and designing a solution for your business, we have already asked you the following:

"What do you want the project to accomplish for your business?" Here are some examples of answers we receive:

• Increase sales—
• Speed to market -
• Reduce labor—
• Technology advantage over competition
• Communication for relationship-building —
• Enable flexibility in pricing and/or service specifications

"What do you want the project to accomplish for your customer?" Here are some examples of answers we receive:

• Better knowledge about your company products (e.g. product catalog)—
• More timely information (e.g. financial or data reporting) —
• Opportunity to save money (e.g. direct mail circular)—
• Aggregation of information & data (e.g. process, regulatory documentation, and/or compliance manuals)"

Armed with this information we can then define the project goals and objective. What customer will the project serve? — Internal staff or external customers?

• Additional research before we start the site map and design
• Collect the elements and materials necessary to complete the project

We then decide how should the end product look like in order to fulfill the needs of both your business and your customer? What content will be included for each audience addressed by this project? — what layout will the presentation to each audience have?

What is your desired completion date? — start from that date and work backwards What are your current project resources? What are the inputs and outputs of the process? 2.

Assessment
We create a top-level diagram of the desired process. Identify the following: — audiences for output Web sites or software for these audiences— content of the project — desired formats — databases involved. We consider status of the database if any. — is all necessary data available? — is the data clean, correct values, typos, up-to-date? — does content need to be written and/or entered?

We consider status of graphics and other object files.— who will provide them? — does a photographer need to be involved? — do images need to be standardized for height/width ratio? — do images need to be standardized for resolution? (need 300 dpi for print) Is the content and layout for each audience finalized? — will a designer be involved? — will there be multiple designs generated? — how will the design or layout change for different versions?

As we begin to go into development and production for the selected solutions we continue to get buy-in from appropriate people in your company.

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