Phases

The following section of this chapter will describe each phase in a Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementation, and the tasks each phase includes. In a waterfall environment, you can do one thing after another. In an agile environment, don't forget to loop through all of the phases, especially those of getting the project requirements, analysis, development, and part of the task from the deployment phase.

It's especially important to define how information will flow through all the phases to ensure that important information does not get lost.

Presales

This is the first contact between the partner and the customer—the big lines on which the project will be drawn.

This phase is usually executed by the sales or marketing teams, with the help of a business consultant. Many companies think that at this stage, the project hasn't started yet, so they don't think that this job is part of the project. But it actually plays a very important role.

Selling a project like a Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementation...