Internet Business Plans

A website's frontend develops by prototyping and iterating multimedia themes, but the backend (online applications) should be built using proven software engineering methodologies.

Online application software should begin as a Functional Description, derived from the Technology Section of a Business Plan. Bizware has experience developing all 3 above documents on a collaboration website. You can leverage the internet as part of your planning process to:

• Make sure busy managers can provide their input, from anywhere they can find the time.
• Insure adoption of the deliverable by getting input from operations people too busy to attend meetings.
• Provide restricted access to major customers, investors, or trading partners to make sure their needs are also addressed.
• Allow selected oversight to programmers and implementers to insure requirements leverage applicable technology.
• Have only the latest version of planning documents available for comments.
• Maintain a comment log to keep the players accountable to what they request.
• Speed approvals with simultaneous deadlines vs. the traditional signature cycle.

We can provide examples and hands-on assistance to fielding an effective Functional Description in plain business English so managers and programmers can understand. The final Functional Description elements are then mapped to tasks in project management software or with online tools like Task Meister. When the online application is fielded, excerpts from the Functional Description are used to document the online application using tools like Help Meister.

The end result is a traceable management process that links planning through development all the way to elements of the deliverable. This is the best way to insure that what is needed is what is delivered, on time and within budget. And once delivered, that its elements can be analyzed factually for ROI and for compliance to the corporate roadmap.

Bizware Online Applications has used this process over 200 times since 1994 to insure synchronized expectations from all parties concerned. We are committed to the concept that clear requirements and structured project control has more to do with the success of an online application than the amount of money thrown at it, than even programmer skillsets, than anything else management can supply.

Describe your internet plans using our Ask the Expert form, and we'll have an expert respond with trade-offs and recommendations focused on the decisions you will be making. The earlier you bring Bizware Online Applications into your planning process, the more you can leverage our experience.