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The Strategy stage (also called by many other names, including Problem Definition and Feasibility Study ) is where you decide what the objectives of your project are, and whether they are feasible and justified.
The main aim is to find out what business problems you are expected to solve, and investigate the options for their solution. You may have to consider whether the solutions are justified in terms of their benefit to the business, and whether they fit within the budget. The main outcome will be a report describing the problems and possible solutions, with a recommendation on what your users and managers should do.
During this stage, you ll need to make the first stab at a project plan, and create a Quality Plan outlining how the project is to be run, what standards and procedures you are going to use, and who has what responsibilities. You ll need to assess what quality of system is required, and match the possible solutions to this requirement.
In order to make a good start, you ll also need to set up the filing and reporting structures for the project, and start using them as you mean to go on!
The role of any Strategy is five-fold:
Define what you are going to do, and when.
Define what you are not going to do.
Define what other people have to do ( who)
Prove that all this is justified...
