IMPACT ANALYSIS

IMPACT ANALYSIS

Introduction
The Impact Analysis is part of the Maintenance Services. It provides insight in the impact of functional and technical changes in an application.

The Impact Analysis serves the application stakeholder who needs to understand and manage the impact of application changes, e.g. to be able to schedule development resources and to decide on solution strategies.

Keywords: application impact, work lists, automated source code analysis, manageability, scheduling, problem solving.

The audience is ICT management and development/maintenance teams.

Purpose of the service
The main purpose of the Impact Analysis is to analyze the impact of application changes and understand its implications. It builds on the Baseline Assessment which establishes a knowledge base of all application details.

Impact Analysis is needed for application changes that impact throughout the application.

Required input	Process overview	Output
- Customer’s change requests - Application source code - Application   design/maintenance   documentation	- Interview stakeholders to understand change requests - Baseline Assessment:   Intake of source code   Intake of documentation   Parse source code   Establish Meta Repository - Analyse impact of change - Produce Impact Statistics - Produce Impact Work Lists	- Baseline Assessment, e.g.   Inventory of software components   Application repository - Application Impact:   Impact Statistics   Impact Work Lists - Full documentation:   Documentation Web Site

Characteristics	Advantages
- Identification of impact of application changes/enhancements - Metrics and Work Lists - Automated - Processing time, excl. baseline assessment, 1-2 weeks	- Full insight in technical impact - Improved manageability - Improved quality of decisions - Cost effective - Based on automated, repeatable process

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