The deployment team, led by selected members from the planning team, will need to develop their plan for the actual deployment. The deployment plan consists of a set of technical instructions in a specific order of what will be deployed, what the dependencies are, and how it will be deployed. Setting up server hardware, installing operating systems, and installing and configuring the Office Communications Server software is part of the implementation process.

The deployment team will consist of IT members from nearly all technical areas of the company. As mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, a lot of expertise needs to be brought to bear on a project the size that Litware is implementing. Having a good project manager and a detailed schedule is key to making sure the rollout of Office Communications Server is successful. The project manager has developed a master schedule, as shown in Figure 14-9. All other teams will work within this time line for their own planning for the deployment of the project and will likely submit their own time lines to further define subtasks within the overall project.

Figure 14-9. Time line for the overall Litware, Inc. Office Communications Server rollout