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Application Support & Maintenance project planning and initiation

Application Support & maintenance project planning and initiation.

Application Support & Maintenance project planning and initiation




There are various parameters which should be considered before starting the project in Application Support. Application Support & Maintenance project planning and initiation phase requires evaluation of certain parameters to determine the number and level of resources, Support coverage hours and the SLA (Service level Agreement):

Application Support & Maintenance project plan and initiation

Overview of the application

Business functionality of the application should be understood with the process flow and mapping of each function with the application module. Availability of technical documents and user manual.

Complexity of the application

Complexity of the application

This should clearly describe the application complexity in technical terms, e.g. number of transaction modules, inbound/outbound interfaces, Batch processes etc.

Technology used in the application

 Technology

We should know the technology used to develop and deploy the application.

Age of the application

 Age of the application

The year when the application has gone live.

number of active users in the application

 No. of active users

Number of users created in the application who use the application regularly.

number of concurrent users in the application

No. of concurrent users

Number of users work in the application at any point of time concurrently.

Application usage in peak hours

Peak hours of usage

The time when the usage load on the application is the highest.

stability of the application

Stability of the application
This can be determined based on following:
  1. No. of issues reported daily
  2. No. of on-going enhancements
  3. No. of pending critical issues
  4. No. of downtime reported on a particular frequency

Once above factors are understood and discussed, One can determine the following for Application Support project initiation:

  1. No. of Support Analysts required
  2. Level of Support Analysts
  3. Skill sets of Support Analysts
  4. Support coverage hours
  5. SLA – TAT (Turn around time) of different service types in Application Support service

 




One thought on “Application Support & Maintenance project planning and initiation

  • Sunil Gupta

    Awesome…This article will be very helpful for Senior Support professional to make support process plan & resource management.

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