In the context of information system planning, a master plan defines long term evolutions of the system that will best respond to business demands. Having created a portfolio with initiatives and timespots, you can study implementation planning of your different projects by creating master plans from your portfolio or from an initiative group.

We expect a master plan not only to show planned elements at different successive levels, but also to provide information on functional suitability of evolutions related to business function expectations, and the impact on hardware of implementation of this master plan.

This complementary information provides stakeholders (functional evolution requester business function managers, IS managers, technical architects) with decision-making criteria enabling selection, rejection, postponement, etc. of particular master plans.

Master plan description corresponds to a study phase, actual implementation of the master plan taking place at a later stage.

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