Why do I need to write
a Concept of Operations document?
You can use the
Concept of Operations document to answers questions such as.
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- What is the proposed system?
- What are the typical user classes?
- What are the different modes of
operation?
- How do I clarify conflicting and
ambiguous user requirements?
- How do I prioritize user’s
requirements?
- How do I assist project
stakeholder in determining if the proposed system should be
developed
- What will help me start writing
the
Functional Requirements Document (FRD)?
- How to communicate the user’s
expectations of the proposed system to the Buyer and/or Software
Development team
- How to build consensus among user
groups, buyer organizations, and/or among developers.
Remember that the aim of this document
is NOT to identify the technology to be used or how it will be designed
– that comes later.
This is a fore-runner to these
documents and helps place the high-level needs in context.
However, the
Concept of Operations document can be used to describe the current system environment and
operational scenarios as well as identifying existing facilities,
policies, resource, etc. that represent significant constraints or
limitations that need to be considered during the design and
implementation phase.
Read more:
1.
How to write the Concept Operations Document
2.
What it a Concept Operations Document?
3.
How to Define the Goals, Objectives and Rationale
4.
What you need to put into a Concept Operations Document
5.
How to Justify the New System to Project Stakeholders
6.
How to develop Use Cases to capture Work Scenarios
7.
What's the Connection Between the Concept of Operations and
Functional Requirements Document
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Table of Contents
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1 Introduction
1.1 Document overview
1.2 Background
1.3 Identification
1.4 Goals, objectives & rationale
1.5 Points of contact
2 Current System
2.1 Background
2.2 Scope
2.3 Policies and Constraints
2.4 Description of current system
2.5 Modes of Operation
2.6 Users classes & other stakeholders
2.7 Support Environment
3 Justification
3.1 Justification for change
3.2 Description of required changes
3.3 Priorities among the changes
3.4 Changes considered but not included
3.5 Assumptions
3.6 Constraints
4 Proposed System
4.1 Background, objectives, and scope
4.2 Operational policies and constraints
4.3 Description of the new system
4.4 User classes / categories of users
4.5 Modes of operation
4.6 Deployment and support environment
4.7 Non-functional requirements
4.8 Requirements traceability
5 Use Cases & Operation Scenarios
5.1 Process descriptions
5.2 Events
5.3 Use Case
6 Impacts
6.1 Risks
6.2 Issues
6.3 Operational impacts
6.4 Organizational impacts
6.5 Impacts during development
7 Analysis of the Proposed System
7.1 Improvements
7.2 Disadvantages & limitations
7.3 Alternatives
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