a) Identify stakeholders

Intended users or customers and other stakeholders who will have an interest or stake in the outcome of the project are established.

b) Identify applicable documents

Applicable source and technical documents and the requirements therein that could affect the project effort are identified and acquired, including:

1. the scope and purpose of both the project and products to be developed or reengineered

2. stated purpose of the products, expectations of the stakeholders, expected benefits to stakeholders, as well as the goals and objectives of the system, or portion thereof, to be developed or reengineered

3. enterprise policies, priorities, and constraints on funding, personnel, facilities, manufacturing capability and capacity, and critical resources that will affect accomplishing the requirements and goals of the source and technical documents

4. (a) applicable processes, standards, and specifications; (b) core enterprise technologies; (c) risks to business growth by new project; (d) must-win criteria; (e) net cost targets; (f) methods of resource allocation; (g) how work and changes will be authorized; (h) how information will be captured; (i) how work packages will be formed and controlled; (j) scope and procedures for tradeoff analyses, effectiveness analyses, and risk management, based on enterprise goals and planning baselines.

c) Identify associated process approaches

How development of enabling products associated with production, test, deployment/installation, and logistics processes will be implemented is determined.

d) Identify applicable life cycle phases

Applicable enterprise-based life cycle phases...