Completing the Systems
Design Phase
The IT team completed the systems design phase by writing the documentation and
designing backup and recovery, file retention, and start-up procedures. The final step was to
develop a system design specification for the ESIP system.
Rick and Becky showed a draft of the system design specification to Jane and Ann. After
incorporating their changes, they e-mailed copies to a distribution list of users, IT staff members,
and managers. Their presentations to users and IT staff members went well, and at the
management presentation, they received final approval to implement the ESIP system.