Development planning and implementation strategy

The development plan describes the business processes for documenting and analyzing a company's IT landscape and for its strategic development. The development plan and implementation strategy serves as a guideline for the construction and maintenance of the IT architecture. The master plan is a key element of the IT strategy and an important instrument for managing the enterprise architecture.
The IT master plan focuses on the support of business processes through IT applications. Further requirements result from the IT strategy and can be derived from customer needs and market conditions or the business strategy.

Once surveyed, the development plan is continuously updated. Understanding how IT support for current and future business can be guaranteed is more important than ever before. Once the development plan has been implemented, IT will be able to provide better support for business processes and customer requirements.
For the implementation strategy, the measures and projects derived from the development plan, including their dependencies, are put into a chronological order. This results in a project plan, which in turn serves as input for the company's project portfolio management.