| Milestone | Description |
| Investigation Approval | Propose an idea for a project or product worth investigating in more detail, and request funding for an appropriate number of people to help understand the problem more clearly. |
| Project Approval | Get approval to proceed with development of the proposed concept. |
| Schedule Approval | Get approval for Functional Product Specification and the product implementation plans. |
| Launch Plan Approval | Get approval for the plan to introduce the product. |
| Alpha | Review and update the project status and schedule, and verify that the feature set is frozen and the product is fully functional and documented. |
| UI Freeze | Certify that the User Interface (UI) is frozen, and all product elements seen by the customer will undergo no further changes. |
| Launch Approval | Ensure all requirements have been met in order to introduce the product. |
| Beta | Review and update the project status and schedule, and verify that the user interface is frozen and the product is highly stable. |
| Code Freeze | Complete all software deliverables and verify that no changes are required to the source code. |
| Release Approval Milestones | Engineering Release
Milestone: Certify that the product is
complete, and obtain sign-off for release from Engineering.
Manufacturing Release Milestone: Get approval for the product to be reproduced. Print Release Milestone: Verify that hard-copy documentation is complete and ready to be released. Packaging Release Milestone: Ensure that all deliverables, specifications and requirements for manufacturing packaging components are complete. |
| Project Completion | Get written verification that a rebuildable archive of the product and the audit trail of that product's development have been collected and stored according to defined quality standards. |
Glossary of Terms, and Sample Documents and Presentations.
Here you can download a zip file which contains a full set of document templates (254KB). The templates are in Word97 format.
Last updated: 12-Oct-2004
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