Ministry of Forests and Range
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Impact Analysis Checklist
Version 1.0
November 27, 2008
The project manager should use this checklist to confirm they have considered all types
of impacts of their project at both a high level during initiation and planning, and at a
detailed level during the analysis phase of the project.
Project Name: ____________________________
Area of Impact
High-level Impacts
(early project impact identification and
communication planning)
Date: ________________
Potential / Known Impacts
Description ( what the change is)
Stakeholders
(who is affected)
List known business, business process,
application and data areas that may be
impacted by changes
stakeholders list
for initial
communication
List specific business items that will be
impacted by changes, describe the impact,
mitigation plans
refine
communication
list
Isolated or single business
area impacts.
Cross business area impacts
Cross ministry impacts
External (Fed Govt, First
Nations, Industry, etc) impacts
Business Impacts
(Analysis phase impact identification and
communication)
Mandate Impacts
Policy Impacts
Service Plan Impacts
Legislation Impacts
Business Process Impact
Financial Impact
Workload / Resource Impacts
Information Quality Impacts
Privacy Impacts
Records Impacts
Capital, operational, training
see:
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/his/sdlc/deliverables/Privacy
_Impact_Assessment.htm
see:
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/his/sdlc/deliverables/Record
s_Impact_Assessment.htm
Organization/Administration For changes to organization, list and describe
impacts to all affected business areas. e.g. for
Impacts
(early project through to implementation planning, communication, risk mitigation)
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and organization boundary change list and
describe, staff, applications, data, etc impacts
refine
communication
list
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Area of Impact
Potential / Known Impacts
Description ( what the change is)
Stakeholders
(who is affected)
Org Structure Impacts
Org Support Impacts
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Area of Impact
Application Impacts
(includes application, data, database,
warehouse impact assessment from
analysis through to implementation
phase)
Application Impacts
Highly Used Corporate
Applications (large number of users)
Potential / Known Impacts
Description ( what the change is)
List and describe application impacts. Be
specific. Where will changes cause cross
application, data, or business area impacts.
Stakeholders
(who is affected)
refine
communication
list
If changes are to highly used applications
please notify stakeholders as early in the
project as possible. Initial application list: Forest
Client, Forest Tenure, Results, ECAS, HBS,
Electronic Submission Framework, MAX
Performance Management Application, CIMS,
GENUS, Biogeoclimatic (BEC), SOSS
Other MFR application impact
(smaller number of users but still impact)
Reporting Application Impacts
External applications impact
(change impacts external app)
Performance Impacts
Software Impacts
Training Impacts
Implementation Impacts
Data Impacts
Highly Shared Corporate Data
(high cross-business, cross-application
usage)
If data changes are to one of the following
areas of highly shared data please detail
specific changes, other area usage, databases
used in, and notify stakeholders as early in the
project as possible. Initial highly shared data
list: Org Unit, Forest Client, Forest Tenure,
Forest Stewardship Plan, Results,
Biogeoclimatic, Tree Species, Species,
Product, Grade, Damage Agent, Vegetation
Inventory
Different types of data changes such as changing existing
data types or lengths have significant impact on
applications using that data.
Corporate Codes
Database Impacts
Cross Database Impacts
Capacity Impacts
Data Warehouse Impacts
Business Intelligence
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(data is replicated to other than source database and
changes may impact replicated data e.g.
Biogeoclimatic (BEC) data replicated)
(see Capacity Plan deliverable in Analysis phase)
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Potential / Known Impacts
Description ( what the change is)
Area of Impact
Stakeholders
(who is affected)
Land and Resource Data
Warehouse
Standards / Infrastructure
Security Impact
Infrastructure Impact
Reviewed by:
see:
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/his/sdlc/deliverables/Threat
_Risk_Assessment.htm
Does change impact any of the following:
Infrastructure, SDLC standards, existing software,
licensing, existing hardware, hardware and software
scalability, existing networks, support for existing
services
______________________
______________________
Project Manager
Date
______________________
Business Lead
________________________
Date
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