Project Review: Initial Operational Capability Milestone

The Construction phase ends with an important project milestone, the Initial Operational Capability Milestone, which is used to determine whether the product is ready to be deployed into a beta test environment by answering (among others) the following questions:

• Is this product release stable and mature enough to be deployed in the user community?

• Are all the stakeholders ready for the transition into the user community?

• Are actual resource expenditures versus planned expenditures still acceptable?

The Transition phase may have to be postponed by adding an iteration to Construction if the project fails to reach this milestone.