Infrastructure Requirements

As well as finding people who possess the necessary skills to work on your project, you need to put an appropriate infrastructure in place. These infrastruc-ture requirements should be implemented in parallel with the development of the pilot project. Be sure to allow adequate time in the schedules for these extra tasks.

• Infrastructure Requirements
  
  
• Corporate Visual Basic 5 client/server architecture and strategy
  
  
• General application design standards
  
  
• Data design standards
  
  
• Client/server guidelines (such as connectivity method, use of stored procedures)
  
  
• GUI style guide
  
  
• Coding standards
  
  
• Distribution, installation, implementation, and upgrade guidelines
  
  
• Development environments (such as development, test, and production servers)
  
  
• Source control software and associated procedures
  
  
• Powerful, standardized developers’ PCs fully configured with Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, relevant (and tested) custom controls, and a range of supporting utilities and tools
  
  
• Fully configured and tested server database with associated tools to add test data, stored procedures, and the like
  
  
• Fully implemented and tested workstation-to-server connectivity (should include network software, ODBC drivers, and so on)
  
  
• Education and training of those providing any of the above or filling technical roles