Notice: applying this to your agency.The IT Project Resources are not meant to replace your agency’s internal project management practices or prescribe how you must operate. Instead, they offer concepts and tools that can strengthen delivery by providing a scalable framework for project‑level coordination. All project documentation should be maintained throughout each stage in alignment with agency policies and, where applicable, WaTech requirements and oversight expectations. |
Stage 3 establishes the technical foundation required to support successful configuration, testing, and deployment.
This stage focuses on developing, configuring, and integrating solution components in alignment with approved architecture, requirements, and statewide technical standards. Agencies prepare and validate all environments to ensure they are stable, secure, and ready for quality assurance activities.
The emphasis in Stage 3 is on producing a functional, test‑ready solution framework that meets WaTech enterprise expectations and supports impacted group needs. Technical preparation activities, including environment setup, integration planning, configuration management, and quality assurance planning, create the conditions necessary for rigorous validation and controlled deployment.
By completing Stage 3, the project or program enters the next phase with a stable, traceable, and fully prepared technical ecosystem. This ensures that formal testing, user readiness activities, and deployment planning can proceed with confidence and alignment across all participating agencies.
For Programs
Stage 3 establishes the technical foundation required for coordinated enterprise delivery. During this stage, programs prepare and validate the environments, integration frameworks, and quality controls that will support configuration, testing, and deployment activities in later stages. This includes developing the enterprise development and configuration plan, confirming integration readiness, establishing testing strategies, and implementing configuration management practices aligned with WaTech architecture and security standards.
For Programs with Agency‑Led Sub‑Projects
Stage 3 ensures that each agency is technically aligned and ready to participate in the enterprise build and testing process. Agencies coordinate environment setup, validate interface readiness, adopt shared configuration protocols, and contribute to the enterprise testing and quality assurance strategy. The program consolidates these inputs into a unified technical framework that supports cross‑agency consistency, traceability, and oversight.
For Projects
Stage 3 transitions the project from design into technical readiness. This stage focuses on preparing the environments, tools, integration points, and quality assurance structures needed to support configuration and testing. Activities include establishing development and testing environments, validating system and interface integration plans, defining the test strategy and Test Quality Assurance Plan, and implementing configuration management controls.
Projects under WaTech Oversight must demonstrate traceability to approved requirements, adherence to enterprise architecture and security standards, and readiness for the structured testing and deployment planning that will occur in Stage 4 and beyond. Stage 3 ensures that the technical ecosystem is stable, governed, and fully prepared before configuration, workflow build, and formal testing begin.