The following is a proposed outline for a project/product plan. It tries to take all aspects of creating and sustaining a product into consideration.
Brief description of what the product does and what problem it is supposed to solve.
Describe who the customer would be for this product and why they would use it.
A very coarse overview of the Development plan:
what are the pieces that have to be developed?
What is needed to build it?
A very high-level timeline, i.e. Prototype, major integration points, Alpha, Beta, Final Release?
very high level over of the plan for how to test, e.g. "get a thousand monkeys and lock them in a room with the product"
(first, second, third tier, etc)
what are the SLAs?
What operations resources are needed for the respective SLAs?
How do we maintain it? upgrade it? release patches, new versions?
How do we market it to the MIT community? How do we make peole aware of it, how do we offer incentives to use it?
highlight dependencies on other groups, HW, SW, etc.
Risk/Mitigation strategy for each