LabKey Project Process Revised 8/26/2008
Planning Development Deployment
Project kickoff
Production
Feature deployment of
development milestone release
Identify project
stakeholders: project
manager and primary user(s)
LabKey
Mid-development demonstrates new
demonstrations, features to users
Requirements Gathering: No updates, and
LabKey documents User feedback
Scenarios and Problem
Statement. LabKey provides
documentation
and end-user
No training
Stakeholders
Stakeholders verbally agree to
test deployment? No
approve
verbally? No No
Written
sign-off that
Yes docs/training are
Yes adequate?
Test server
Specification: LabKey deployment
documents proposed Yes Yes
product changes.
Stakeholder
No testing Features in
use?
Stakeholders
approve Yes
verbally?
Yes
Written
Yes sign-off that
milestone goals
Yes are complete? All project
goals
Implementation Plan: complete?
LabKey documents
prioritized features and Yes
costs Yes
Milestone
development
No complete Final written sign-
off that project is
Stakeholders complete
approve in
writing?
No
No Written Project
agreement to postmortem:
production LabKey receives a
Yes
deployment? “grade”
Oversight
End of formal
group
Yes project process
Approves to
No
Develop?
Ongoing support,
Specification Stakeholder Oversight training, and
revision specification No group Approves software patches
needed? review to Deploy? as requested
No