Corporate Services for the Natural Resource Sector

Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Impact Analysis Checklist

Version 1.0

December 1, 2014

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 at a detailed level during the requirements phase of the project.

Project Name: ______Date: ______

Area of Impact / Potential / Known Impacts Description ( what the change is) / Stakeholders
(who is affected) /
High-level Impacts
(early project impact identification and communication planning) / List known business, business process, application and data areas that may be impacted by changes / stakeholders list for initial communication
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) / List specific business items that will be impacted by changes, describe the impact, mitigation plans / refine communication list
Mandate Impacts
Policy Impacts
Service Plan Impacts
Legislation Impacts
Business Process Impact
Financial Impact / Capital, operational, training
Workload / Resource Impacts
Information Quality Impacts
Privacy Impacts / See Privacy Impact Assessment under Initiation Phase of the SDLC
Records Impacts / See Records Impact Assessment under Initiation Phase of the SDLC
Organization/Administration Impacts
(early project through to implementation - planning, communication, risk mitigation) / For changes to organization, list and describe impacts to all affected business areas. e.g. for and organization boundary change list and describe, staff, applications, data, etc impacts / refine communication list
Org Structure Impacts
Org Support Impacts
Application Impacts
(includes application, data, database, warehouse impact assessment from analysis through to implementation phase) / List and describe application impacts. Be specific. Where will changes cause cross application, data, or business area impacts. / refine communication list
Application Impacts
Highly Used Corporate Applications (large number of users) / 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 Ministry application impacts (smaller number of users but still impact)
Reporting Application Impacts
External applications impacts (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 / (data is replicated to other than source database and changes may impact replicated data e.g. Biogeoclimatic (BEC) data replicated)
Capacity Impacts / (see NRS Capacity Plan deliverable in Requirements phase)
Data Warehouse Impacts
Business Intelligence
BC Geographic Data Warehouse
Standards / Infrastructure
Security Impact / See Security Threat Risk Assessment under Initiation Phase of the SDLC
Infrastructure Impact / 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

Reviewed by: ______

Project Manager Date

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Business Lead Date

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