Project Planning & Architecture

Give a major project a clear technical foundation.

The decisions you make before development shape what a system will cost, how complex it becomes and how much value it delivers. We help organisations turn ambitious objectives into a technology plan they can work to.

Areas of support

From objectives to a practical plan

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Programme objectives

Users, workflows, information needs and delivery context

Planning areas

  1. Requirements and scope
  2. Architecture and infrastructure
  3. Priorities and stages
  4. Cost and resource planning
  5. Operational preparation

Outcome

A practical technology plan

A common basis for reviewing priorities and agreeing the work

Programme objectives are worked through requirements and scope, architecture and infrastructure, priorities and stages, cost and resource planning and operational preparation, producing a practical technology plan. The staged bars show the order of work, not a schedule.
  1. Requirements and scope

    Pin down the functions, user journeys and outputs the system has to support.

  2. Architecture and infrastructure

    Plan the backend, data structure and operating environment as one connected system.

  3. Priorities and stages

    Set the order of delivery and the dependencies that shape it.

  4. Cost and resource planning

    Weigh technical options against the budget, the running costs and the scope.

  5. Operational preparation

    Settle deployment, support and handover before anything goes live.

Planning around the programme

Understand the work before you commit to the build.

We start with the people, the workflows, the information and the conditions you are delivering in. From there we work out how the technical pieces should fit together, and what needs to happen first.

For programmes with national reach or global ambition, that includes the locations involved, who is responsible for what and what the technology will have to cope with in the field.

Value to your organisation

Investment that goes where it matters most.

A clear plan gives every stakeholder the same basis for reviewing priorities, comparing options and agreeing the work. It points investment at the capabilities the programme needs most.

Our experience delivering complete platforms keeps the plan honest, because we know what it takes to build and run what is on the page.

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Set out the plan for your next major initiative.

Share your objectives, your current requirements and the constraints you are working within.