In the Design phase, the project team focuses on developing the detailed design that will be followed during the implementation phase, providing an exact solution based upon a Best Practices design fitting your long term IT needs.

The team makes decisions on:

• Application Requirements - How to meet business application requirements, support, back-up and recovery requirements
• Migration, Testing and Training Strategy
• Product Configuration - Devices and configurations (which parameters and features to turn on or off, and which protocols to use).
• Solution Impact - Current IT network assessment.
• Final Design Review - The project manager, principal designer and customer review and discuss the details of the design to ensure that all parties are in agreement that the proposed design satisfies the business requirements.

Project Plan – Develop a complete project plan including timeline, implementation milestones, measure of success and operation strategy.