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Table of Contents

System Requirements Summary

Systems and Services Dependencies

Interoperability Requirements

Network Impact Assessment

Versioning/Life-Cycle Impact to Systems and Environment

 


 

[Introduction to the Template:

 

Description: The System Requirements define the current state of the IT infrastructure (cable, routers, bridges, etc. that provide a service) and how that current state will be impacted by the new solution.  It identifies how the new solution will interact with the existing system and where critical dependencies exist that must be carefully managed. 

 

Justification: The nature of the current infrastructure must be understood so that a solution can be developed and deployed with a minimum of negative impact.

 

{Team Role Primary: Program Management is responsible for ensuring that the system requirements are completed. Development has the primary responsibility for creating the content of the system requirements. Release will participate with Development both in content creation and review to ensure operational, deployment, migration, interoperability and support needs are addressed within the system requirements document.

 

Team Role Secondary: Product Management will review and understand the system requirements in order to convey those requirements to parties external to the team. Test and User Experience will review the system requirements to understand their content and have context for developing their plans.}]

 


 

System Requirements Summary

[Description: Provide an overall summary of the contents of this document. This should include the criteria by which the system requirements were established and how they were validated.

 

Justification: Some project participants may need to know only the document’s highlights, and summarizing creates that user view. It also enables the full reader to know the essence of the document before they examine the details.]

<<Begin text here>>

 

Systems and Services Dependencies

[Description:  The Systems and Services Dependencies section identifies and describes in detail each service/feature dependency.  Is should also describe the processes that need to be in place to ensure that the solution’s design (and ultimately the deployment) doesn’t improperly impact an existing system/service.]

<<Begin text here>>

 

Interoperability Requirements

[Description: The Interoperability Requirements section identifies all external systems and services with which the solution will interact.  It should also describe the nature of the interaction.]

<<Begin text here>>

 

Network Impact Assessment

[Description: The Network Impact Assessment section describes how the solution will impact the existing network environment. It should describe the changes required to the existing network environment in order for the solution to be accepted into production.

 

 It should also describe the processes that must be in place to minimize disruption of existing infrastructure services.]

<<Begin text here>>

 

Versioning/Life-Cycle Impact to Systems and Environment

[Description:  The Versioning/Life-Cycle Impact to Systems and Environment section describes the processes that must be in place to ensure that future solution versions will not impact the existing environment.]

<<Begin text here>>