Check Status of Required Work Products
The Project Manager will check each of the work products required for the phase end, using information from the latest
Iteration Assessment and Status Assessment. Where there are open issues or problems that the Project Manager believes
would prevent a successful Lifecycle Milestone Review, work is initiated to resolve them, before the work products are
distributed to the stakeholders.
Work Products Required
|
Schedule Configuration Audits
If required, the Project Manager arranges for functional and physical configuration
audits to be conducted according to Perform Configuration Audit
.
|
Conduct a Phase Post-Mortem Review
Once any tasks triggered by Check Status of Required Work Products have been completed, the Iteration Assessment can be amended to reflect the improved state. A
post-mortem review is then held to determine whether the project is ready for the Lifecycle Milestone Review. The Iteration Assessment for the previous iteration, and the Issues List
are again examined to make sure any residual issues are understood and it will be acceptable to the stakeholders to
carry them forward. If any product was delivered to the customer for operational use in the current phase, then ensure
that any required installation, training and transition tasks have progressed acceptably.
If the phase end is also the end of the current contract (with the intent to re-contract for the next phase), the
Project Manager will settle the project's finances, making sure all payments have been received and all suppliers and
subcontractors paid. Organizational policy or other regulatory requirement may also require a more formal audit process
at contract termination, covering the project's finances, budgeting process, and assets.
The Project Manager produces a Status Assessment that captures the results of the phase post-mortem
review and the configuration audits, in preparation for the Lifecycle Milestone Review.
|
Distribute Work Products to Stakeholders
Some time before the Lifecycle Milestone Review is to scheduled to be held, the Project Manager provides all
stakeholders with copies of the work products which are to be considered at the Lifecycle Milestone Review. In a very
formal contractual environment, the delivery of work products may well be contractually required to occur some weeks
before the review. However, the Rational Unified Process recommends that the stakeholders be involved and engaged in
the project to such a degree (in joint technical and management reviews, for example) that these deliveries should not
be controversial; the stakeholders would already be familiar with the delivered material. They will have visibility of
the evolution of the work products through the project's iterations. Even so, given the formal nature of these
deliveries, the Deployment discipline will ensure that proper regard is given to packaging,
labeling, installation, transition, and so on.
Work Products Required
|
Complete Lifecycle Milestone Review Action Items
There may be some remaining actions following the Lifecycle Milestone Review, and sanction to begin the
next phase may be conditional upon these. The Project Manager initiates work to resolve these items.
|
|