Technical Strategy / PBS

"Clueless" writes:

1) can you clarify what I'm expected to do for the Technical strategy please? The product lifecycle process seems to already be descibed in the case study (Alton Landscape). I'm a bit clueless about this and am wondering what I'm supposed to write. Is "Technical Strategy" referring to how to use human resources to deliver the project?

In "recipe" terms, the Technical Strategy is the piece of writing that explains what is to be done with the ingredients. If the life-cycle prcess model is the skeleton, then the Technical Strategy is the body around it. It will naturally cover the human resources as well as material ones.

2) The PBS of deliverables. Is this simply just a list of task headings with their deadline? Is it really that simple or does it need to be elaborated on?

Recall that the Deliverables are those items that are presented to the customer, and that there may be a number of diverse deliverables (the garden, the operations plan, etc.). PBS of Deliverables means a Hierarchy (systems, sub-systems, components) of the product using the Deliverable items as the roots of the hierarchy.