Gate I Stage Gate Process Stage 1 Gate II Stage 2 Gate III Stage 3 Stage 4 Gate IV Stage 5 Problem/Vision/Idea Stage 1 (Scoping/Conception) The problem was deduced from our scenario (pre-stage) and therefore there is a need to upgrade or change the transactional system used by the AMP of Canada as we now know that the current JBA Transactional Processing System does not support AMP of Canada’s business requirements and is not Year 2000 Compliant (Kerzner, 2006). It is prone to errors causing issues with accuracy, data integration and significant losses due to required manual interventions. Stage 2 (Design/Build) Detailed information has been gathered from our previous as to what is needed and what needs to be implemented to better the transactional system used by the AMP of Canada, once a decision has been made been made from the reports, models and data provided to our client the project team will therefore more to the third stage. Stage 3 (Development) This stage will be following after completion of Stage 2. Stage 4 (Testing/Implementing) This stage will be following after completion of Stage 3. Stage 5 (Launch) This stage will be following after completion of Stage 2.