Feasibility Report
The purpose of a feasibility report is to investigate and showcase the task requirements and to determine whether the project is worthwhile/feasible. Feasibility is checked on the 5 primary factors – technology and system, economic, legal, operational, and schedule. Other feasibility factors include market, resource, culture, and financial factors.
Project Charter
Project Charter is sometimes also known as the Project Overview Statement. A project charter includes high-level planning components of a project. This lays the foundation of the project. It acts as an anchor, holding you to the project’s objectives and guides you as a navigator, through the milestones. It is a formal approval of the project.
Requirement Specification
A requirement specification document is a complete description of the system to be developed. It contains all interactions the users will have with the system along with the nonfunctional requirements.
Design Document
The design document showcases the high or low-level design components of the system. The design document used for high-level design gradually evolves to include low-level design details. This document describes the architectural strategies of the system.
Work Plan/Estimate
A work plan sets out the phases, activities and tasks needed to deliver a project. The timeframes required to deliver a project, along with the resources and milestones are also shown in a work plan. The work plan is referred to constantly throughout the project. Actual progress is reviewed on a daily basis against the stated plan. It is therefore the most critical document to deliver projects successfully.
Traceability Matrix
A traceability matrix is a table that traces a requirement to the tests that are needed to verify that the requirement is fulfilled. A good traceability matrix will provide backward and forward traceability: a requirement can be traced to a test and a test to a requirement.
Issue Tracker
An issue tracker manages and maintains list of issues. It helps add issues, assign them to people, and track the status as well as current responsibilities. It also helps develop a knowledge base to contain information on resolutions to common problems.
Change Management Document
A change management document is used to capture progress and to record all changes made to a system. This helps in linking unanticipated adverse effects of a change.
Test Document
A test document includes test plan and test cases. A test case is a detailed procedure that fully tests a feature or an aspect of a feature. While a test plan describes what to test, a test case describes how to perform a particular test.
Technical Document
Technical document includes product definition and specification, design, manufacturing/development, quality assurance, product/system liability, product presentation, description of features, functions and interfaces, safe and correct use, service and repair of a technical product as well as its safe disposal.
Functional Document
Functional specifications define the inner workings of the proposed system. It does not include the specification how the system function will be implemented. Instead, it focuses on what various other agents (people/computer) might observe when interacting with the system.
User Manual
User Manual is the standard operating procedure for the system.
Transition/Rollout Plan
The rollout plan includes detailed instructions on how to implement the system in an organization. It includes the schematic planning of the rollout steps and phases. It also describes the training plan for the system.
Handover Document
Handover document is a synopsis of the system with a listing of all the deliverables of the system.
