Decide Project Objectives

Now that you have completed the review of your current distribution system, you will start to make decisions about your implementation. To begin with, you must decide your project objectives. When deciding your project objectives, you should be realistic about your time frames and resources. For example, it is not realistic to target all suggested objectives, assign only one person for two hours per day, and then expect that the project will be completed within two weeks. All these factors must be taken into account when planning your implementation.

Use the following list to indicate your objectives for the project. After each objective, the corresponding phase of the implementation plan is listed.

• Define recipient tree (Phase 2).
• Design decollating missions (Phase 3).
• Collate user reports into one printed bundle (Phase 4).
• Produce user report bundles on remote printers (Phase 4).
• Archive report output (Phase 5).
• Automatically control printer workload balancing (Phase 5).
• Eliminate report reruns (Phase 5).
• Reduce size of spool volumes (Phase 6).
• Handle MSGCLASS output (Phase 7).
• Reduce volume of printed output (Phase 8).
• Eliminate redundant reports (Phase 8).
• Deliver online viewing services to end users (Phase 9).
• Implement report security (Phase 6 and 9).
• Download packaged reports to the PC environment (Phase 10).
• Review project (Phase 11).

You can target any or all of the above objectives. To achieve all of the above objectives, follow the supplied implementation plan in its entirety.

You can omit from your implementation plan any objectives you want. However, achievement of objectives requires implementation of the corresponding phases. When deciding which objectives to implement or omit, be aware that we strongly recommend that certain phases be implemented by all users, while we consider other phases to be optional.

Note: Phases 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 11 are strongly recommended for all users. You should be able to achieve most or all of their corresponding objectives as part of initial implementation.

The following are the optional phases of the supplied plan:

Table 7 Optional Phases

Targeted objectives do not necessarily have to be achieved during initial implementation. You may be limited by time constraints or resources. If so, omit any of the optional phases from your initial implementation and tackle them later.

You may also have additional objectives that you want to add to the plan, and you should feel free to do so.