IENVO EDGE delivery methodology
Explore. Design. Generate. Evolve.
Four customer-facing stages, seven operational phases. Every phase ends with named deliverables and an acceptance checkpoint you sign off. EDGE is IENVO's own framework, informed by PMI-aligned governance and Agile practice.
Engage & Initiate
Agree objectives, stakeholders, governance and the engagement model before work begins.
Activities
- Initial consultations
- Stakeholder identification
- Business objectives
- Initial scope and risks
- Project governance
- Engagement model selection
Roles involved
Engagement lead, Project manager
You receive
- Project charter
- Stakeholder register
- Initial scope
- Governance framework
- Preliminary risk log
Your responsibilities
Nominate a sponsor and product owner; confirm decision-makers and availability.
Discover & Assess
Understand current processes, systems, data and integration points through structured workshops.
Activities
- Executive workshops
- Business process discovery
- Technical and current-state assessment
- Integration and data discovery
- Requirements workshops
- Feasibility and gap analysis
Roles involved
Business analyst, Solution architect
You receive
- Discovery assessment
- Business requirements
- Process maps
- Technical findings
- Risks, dependencies and recommendations
Your responsibilities
Provide access to stakeholders, documentation, systems and sample data.
Architect & Plan
Define the target solution, security and integration design, backlog and roadmap.
Activities
- Solution architecture and technology selection
- High- and low-level design
- Data, integration and security architecture
- User experience
- Backlog and MVP definition
- Delivery roadmap and release planning
Roles involved
Solution architect, UX designer, Project manager
You receive
- Solution blueprint
- Architecture diagrams
- Prioritized backlog
- Delivery roadmap and estimates
- Acceptance criteria
Your responsibilities
Review designs, prioritize the backlog and approve architecture decisions.
Build & Iterate
Develop, configure and integrate in sprints, with a working demo at the end of each one.
Activities
- Sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Development and configuration
- Integration
- Code reviews and CI/CD
- Automated testing
- Sprint demonstrations
Roles involved
Engineers, QA engineer, Scrum master
You receive
- Working solution increments
- Sprint summaries
- Updated backlog
- Test evidence
- Progress reports
Your responsibilities
Attend sprint reviews, give timely feedback, and make backlog decisions.
Validate & Prepare
Prove the solution is ready: functional, integration, performance, security and user acceptance.
Activities
- Functional, integration and regression testing
- Security and performance checks
- Data validation
- User acceptance testing
- Defect remediation
- Cutover rehearsals
Roles involved
QA lead, Release manager
You receive
- Test results and defect reports
- UAT evidence
- Release checklist
- Cutover and rollback plan
- Readiness decision
Your responsibilities
Provide UAT testers, execute test scripts and approve the release.
Launch & Transition
Deploy to production, migrate data, train users and hand over operations.
Activities
- Deployment and production configuration
- Data migration or cutover
- Go-live verification
- User training
- Documentation and knowledge transfer
- Hypercare
Roles involved
Release manager, Trainer, Support lead
You receive
- Production solution
- Deployment records
- Documentation and training materials
- Support runbooks
- Operational handover
Your responsibilities
Communicate the change internally and make users available for training.
Operate & Improve
Monitor, support and keep improving the solution as your business changes.
Activities
- Monitoring and maintenance
- Incident management
- Service reviews
- Enhancement planning
- Optimization
- Adoption monitoring
Roles involved
Service manager, Support engineers
You receive
- Defined support services
- Operational reports
- Improvement backlog
- Recommendations
- Service reviews
Your responsibilities
Report issues through agreed channels and prioritize enhancements.
Delivery transparency
You always know where your project stands.
Weekly status, sprint demos, a shared RAID log, milestone sign-offs and resource timesheets. Governance cadence is agreed during Engage & Initiate and runs until operational handover.
- Discovery workshops
- Project roadmap
- Architecture reviews
- Agile sprints
- Sprint demos
- UAT
- Deployment
- Support
- Weekly reporting
- Sprint 6 scopeON TRACK
- Integration buildON TRACK
- Data migrationAT RISK
- UAT preparationPLANNED
- Release readinessPLANNED
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