The plan is composed of two things: “define” and “plan”. This activity refers to the business value and application requirements. Specifically “Plan” activities include:

Production metrics, objects, and feedback

Requirements

Business metrics

Update release metrics

Release plan, timing and business case

Security policy and requirement

A combination of the IT personnel will be involved in these activities: business application owners, software development, software architects, continual release management, security officers and the organization responsible for managing the production of IT infrastructure. Some notable vendors and solutions that facilitate Plan include Atlassian, CA Technologies, iRise and Jama Software.