Win 7 Deployment Discovery Phase

This blog will touch on the ‘Plan-Discovery’ Phase of the Win 7 Deployment Project. 

The purpose of this Phase was to qualify the project information and assumptions that may impact design and deployment. 

Some of the activities covered under this phase included:

• Shaun Duncan as the technical lead for this project collected and qualified information from Data#3’s System & Processes Unit (Data#3 Internal IT Department). Shaun Duncan also conducted reviews of the current desktop environment infrastructure in place.
• Assessment of Data#3’s maturity level in relation to the Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization (Desktop Environment Specific).
• Identification of a sample group of end users to participate in information gathering under this phase. (These staff represented a cross section of Data#3).
• A Data#3 Business Analyst conducted interviews with the end user sample group to discover the end user requirements.
• The Data#3 Business Analyst reviewed the requirements of the end users against the User Categorisations for Desktop Standardisation based on Microsoft Standards.

The output of the Discovery Phase established the foundation for the Design Phase.