Overall Implementation Guide

From Open Sustainability

The Overall Implementation Guide brings together all the content contained within the open-sustainability framework. The following aspects are considered to make up the Overall Implementation Guide:

• Overview and Key Concepts initiates users to a new set of enterprise models and the concept of Sustainable Development that is used throughout the approach. This helps users understand the benefits of better sustainability.

• The section on Key Drivers provides the rationale for the FISDEV approach, helping to describe why the solution was created and a bit of the history on how it took its current form.

• The Sustainability Governance Framework provides the overall set of Phases, Activities and Tasks for the methodology; the Usage Model provides some guidance on how these tasks are applied to different types of projects.

To better appreciate the activities and tasks of the Overall Implementation Guide, the architecture framework and delivery model should also be understood at a high level:

• The FISDEV Architecture supports all aspects of the methodology. Users should understand this architecture at a conceptual level to understand the rationale behind many of the architecture and design-centric tasks.

• The Sustainability Governance Solution Offering the processes, policies and procedures for better sustainability. It also helps users understand the skills that will be required on the team, how tasks are to be structured and some of the guiding principles around the delivery approach.

As the development of the methodology is a continuous process, FISDev has been constructed in a fashion so that functionality can be added underneath the Overall Implementation Guide and governing systems.

Users of the open-sustainability framework should always start with this Overall Implementation Guide and the Usage Model before using any of the more detailed assets when undertaking a project.