Use this Concept of Operations template (CONOPs) to describe the purpose of a proposed system, its environment, function, access, roles, resources, and other information stakeholders will need to fund the proposed system.

Use this template to:

• Assist stakeholders in determining if the proposed system should be developed
• Serve as the basis for the Functional Requirements Document
• Communicate the user’s expectations to buyers and developers
• Describe the proposed system, identify user classes, modes of operation, and clarify conflicting user requirements
• Build consensus among user groups, buyer organizations, and/or among developers.

Concept of Operations: Table of Contents

1.1 Document overview
1.2 Background
1.3 Identification
1.4 Goals, objectives & rationale
1.5 Points of contact

2 Current System
2.1 Background
2.2 Scope
2.3 Policies and Constraints
2.4 Description of current system
2.5 Modes of Operation
2.6 Users classes & other stakeholders
2.7 Support Environment

3 Justification
3.1 Justification for change
3.2 Description of required changes
3.3 Priorities among the changes
3.4 Changes considered but not included
3.5 Assumptions
3.6 Constraints

4 Proposed System
4.1 Background, objectives, and scope
4.2 Operational policies and constraints
4.3 Description of the new system
4.4 User classes / categories of users
4.5 Modes of operation
4.6 Deployment and support environment
4.7 Non-functional requirements
4.8 Requirements traceability

5 Use Cases & Operation Scenarios
5.1 Process descriptions
5.2 Events
5.3 Use Case

6 Impacts
6.1 Risks
6.2 Issues
6.3 Operational impacts
6.4 Organizational impacts
6.5 Impacts during development

7 Analysis of the Proposed System
7.1 Improvements
7.2 Disadvantages & limitations
7.3 Alternatives

Contents & Format

The template pack includes the following documents:

MS Word

• 2 x Concept of Operations Templates - 30 pages each

Product Specifications

• File Format: The templates are in Microsoft Word (.docx) format.
• File Size: The zip file is 1 MBs.
• Opening the Files: You don’t need any special software to unzip the files. To unzip: right click on the file, click Extract, and save to your computer.
• Images: All images in the templates are copyright free.