Win 7 Deployment Design Phase

We are currently working under the ‘Design-Design’ phase of the Win 7 Deployment Project.   The design phase involves compiling the technical detailed design, identifying training requirements and a closed pilot deployment plan.  In order to achieve this, some of the activities we are working on include:

• Shaun Duncan reviewing the outputs of the discovery phase in order to produce the Win 7 SOE and Configuration Manager detail design which is underpinned by best practices.
• Indentifying closed pilot participants. Often the closed pilot participants identified are generally ‘IT savvy users’ as the focus of the closed pilot is to establish the proof of concept. However we are also including ‘Non-IT savvy users’ as closed pilot participants, some of which also participated in the discovery phase.
• Shaun Duncan and myself establishing the approach for conducting the closed pilot.
• Discussions with S&P (Data#3’s IT Department) on their staff training requirements which will assist further on when the solution is handed over to the business.
• Discussions with Clinton Garbutt (Data#3’s Desktop Productivity Specialist) on the requirements for end user training.

We expect to start the closed pilot phase next week.  So I look forward to you checking in again to get an update on the progress of the closed pilot.