What is Involved
Any system must embrace the requirements of the business. It must:
- Satisfy the business need
- Reflect the working practices of the business and the aspirations of the initiative
- Embrace and deliver user expectations
- Meet the requirements functionally
- Accommodate future expansion
- Be resilient.
Moreover, it must be properly configured: supplied, deployed and supported correctly with administrative and maintenance systems, compaction and repair routines, technical and user documentation, etc. This is important since many applications tend to become far more mission-critical than first envisaged, notably those whose ease of use belie hidden sophistication.
Implementing the above will birth a polished application.