The purpose of this policy is to control application development and to ensure that the process is efficient, cost-effective, and aligned with the IT strategic plan. It applies to all custom application development for any enterprise business processes.

This sample states that a business case must be prepared for any custom IT application development and all custom IT application development must employ the principles of project management, including use of the project management methodology checklist. All managers must ensure that custom application development is justified and that design specifications match requirements.