COTS Life Cycle Selection and Procurement
  • Requirements/Process analysis
  • Business proposal
  • Tender
  • Supplier selection
  • Contract negotiation and execution

Implementation planning
  • Detailed planning
  • Business process analysis, Business requirements analysis
  • Test Plans
  • System configuration and initialization

Implementation
  • Database and parameter initialization
  • Registration with operating system
  • Screen and report scripting
  • Security and access control

Integration
  • References interfaces and interprets return codes
  • Converts data to format required by COTS
  • Makes up for short comings in COTS delivered functionality

Testing
System level testing complicated by unfamiliarity with COTS and unavailability of source code

Training

Operation and Maintenance
  • Fix bugs
  • Keep up with market expectations about performance, look and feel, operating platforms, etc.
  • Improve existing functionality or add new functionality (Interfaces may need to change, incompatibility with existing systems, etc.)

Post implementation review


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