A medium-sized IT organization with offices in Hyderabad and Gurgaon services clients in the US. It follows CMM standards and works on ERP projects using in-house workflow tools. Projects were facing increased costs from frequent changes. The organization adopted Scrum for some projects but had difficulties meeting CMMI standards. A solution was needed to allow Agile practices while maintaining CMMI compliance and integrating with existing systems. The organization implemented the Unleash project management tool, which provides Agile and waterfall tools, meets CMMI standards, and can integrate with their SAP systems. Change management was key to ensuring team adoption of the new environment.
Post Implementation Audit would help organization to evaluate whether project objectives were met, to determine how effectively the project was run, to learn lessons for the future, and to ensure that it realize maximum possible benefit from the project. PIA would assist organization to effect needed changes in organizational plans & processes and realize potential operational & strategic benefits. In ERP re-implementation projects, PIA's critical role is to redefine the ERP project scope, promote learning & system acceptance through user training & stakeholder commitment to the project.
Post Implementation Audit would help organization to evaluate whether project objectives were met, to determine how effectively the project was run, to learn lessons for the future, and to ensure that it realize maximum possible benefit from the project. PIA would assist organization to effect needed changes in organizational plans & processes and realize potential operational & strategic benefits. In ERP re-implementation projects, PIA's critical role is to redefine the ERP project scope, promote learning & system acceptance through user training & stakeholder commitment to the project.
Upgrading to 9.2 - Setting Yourself Up For SuccessCedar Consulting
With the last major upgrade your organisation will ever perform, Sarah Hurley will talk you through top tips to plan and execute your move to 9.2 leaving yourself ready to hit the ground running with Selective Adoption.
We invited people to join us to share their experiences implementing Oracle Fusion HCM and to learn about how an adoption strategy can positively influence the success of their SaaS-enabled Transformation projects.
WHAT IS RE-ENGINEERING?
EXAMINATION AND ALTERATION OF A SYSTEM TO RECONSTRUCT IT IN A NEW FORM REORGANISING AND MODIFYING EXISTING SOFTWARE SYSTEMS TO MAKE THEM MORE MAINTAINABLE
Presentation "Analysis, design and development of ERP-systems: abstract 1.0"ph.d. Dmitry Stepanov
It's induction session dedicated to problem domains of ERP-system realization, including low level modelling techniques based on responsibility to project processes; basic development concepts to compile programs; all testing approaches to test software and cutover strategies to go-live. Source website: http://stepanovd.com/training_erp_1-0en.html?lang=EN.
Upgrading to 9.2 - Setting Yourself Up For SuccessCedar Consulting
With the last major upgrade your organisation will ever perform, Sarah Hurley will talk you through top tips to plan and execute your move to 9.2 leaving yourself ready to hit the ground running with Selective Adoption.
We invited people to join us to share their experiences implementing Oracle Fusion HCM and to learn about how an adoption strategy can positively influence the success of their SaaS-enabled Transformation projects.
WHAT IS RE-ENGINEERING?
EXAMINATION AND ALTERATION OF A SYSTEM TO RECONSTRUCT IT IN A NEW FORM REORGANISING AND MODIFYING EXISTING SOFTWARE SYSTEMS TO MAKE THEM MORE MAINTAINABLE
Presentation "Analysis, design and development of ERP-systems: abstract 1.0"ph.d. Dmitry Stepanov
It's induction session dedicated to problem domains of ERP-system realization, including low level modelling techniques based on responsibility to project processes; basic development concepts to compile programs; all testing approaches to test software and cutover strategies to go-live. Source website: http://stepanovd.com/training_erp_1-0en.html?lang=EN.
This MPM® Certified Master Project Manager for Information Technology certification program is a 32 hour program which includes examination that must be taken at the end of the program. Unlike others, this program integrates project management knowledge areas with the processes defined in the system development life so an IT Project Manager can utilize the processes, tools, techniques, and key project management areas of knowledge needed to successfully manage software development projects.
Mainframe DevOps—the development challenge
Embracing change can be easier to say than do for mainframe organizations. Resource priority on the mainframe is given to production rather than dev and test. Current tooling, processes and practices may be cumbersome, linear, iterative and slow—but they will also be long-established.
New efficiencies from mainframe environments
By embracing modern development tooling and contemporary testing capability, organizations can achieve DevOps levels of efficiencies and see new returns on mainframe investments. Working collaboratively, teams can deliver more releases faster—and in parallel.
Efficiency, collaboration and flexibility—the pillars of mainframe DevOps
Adopting a DevOps culture and modern tooling can remove bottlenecks and enable parallel development at scale while preserving quality and process integrity and managing mainframe cost.
Conig® v1.5 Converged Information GovernanceYalcin Gerek
CONIG® (Converged Information Governance) is a governance framework developed by TAC A.S. addressing information and related technologies. Its main focus is INFORMATION. CONIG® is based on models that are widely used for Information Technologies, Corporate Governance as well as Business Governance.
The following document contains case study related to the startup my friend started, DIGITERIA.NET . Due to the changing nature of our startup, we moved to ERPAL, which is a web based ERP solution, ideal for small/medium enterprises.
CMMI Implementation with Digité EnterpriseDigite Inc
In an increasingly competitive world, software organizations must implement effective
processes to deliver useful and reliable software in time and within budget. IT organizations are
adapting CMMI models to help them streamline their software development activities. Digité
Enterprise platform has successfully supported corporate clients over the past two years to
manage more than a billion dollars worth of software projects. Digité Enterprise now supports
organizations implementing CMMI by providing support for CMMI process areas and key
practices implementation. To understand how Digité can help your organization in its CMMI
implementation roadmap, read on…
CMMI with Digité Universal Process FrameworkDigite Inc
For organizations embarking on process improvements based on the CMMI model, tool such
as Digité will help them quickly deploy processes and achieve level of execution consistent
with CMMI goals. Using process compliance metrics, organizations can assess their current
readiness for certification and discover areas of improvement. For CMMI-certified
companies, Digité provides flexibility through the UPF to convert their organizational
processes into Digité templates and manage them over time.
2. Unleash Team strongly believes in customer data and information
confidentiality.
All the information used in this case study has been studied and
approved by the end client and does not divulge any information
which did not receive approval of the client’s executive department.
3. Context and the setting
A medium sized IT and ITES organization based out of HiTech City,
Hyderabad mostly servicing clients based out of US follows CMM
standards, employing about 4000 members in their Hyderabad
office in addition to another 3000 members in the Gurgaon office.
The work involves several ERP projects based on huge databases
and web based e-commerce technologies. Requirements by the
customers are usually agreed in advance and executed as per the
needs.
4. Context and the setting
Many of the projects are multi-year fixed price contracts and are
executed using the work flow tools developed in house, which
consists of change control systems and tracking mechanisms.
While changes are common and have always been accommodated
to ensure customer satisfaction, they have started becoming more
frequent along with price erosion due to competition to retain
existing contracts.
While efficiency improvements are happening continuously the
changes, specially towards the later part of project are increasing
the costs tremendously.
5. Context and the setting
The organization has decided to follow Agile practices to better deal
with changes and few projects have adopted Scrum methodology
for projects execution. This seemed to have improved the ability to
work more efficiently with respect to changes, but the CMM
standards proved difficult to follow and Audits have pointed out
many discrepancies in the systems which need to be addressed
urgently. Specially the documentation of meeting notes and work
flow changes with tracking needed better methods.
Various tracking techniques like mobile camera pictures etc were
done to meet CMMI standards in the interim. The scrum practices
like planning and retrospective were manually planned on physical
calendars which had to be done manually for different projects.
6. Problem Statement
A solution was urgently required which would allow the organization
to continue following the internally developed work flow systems for
projects execution and allow a few teams to adopt Agile practices.
Due to the nature of Industry and competition involved, the tools
have to be CMMI compliant and be able to integrate with the
existing work flow systems. Preference is for systems which allow
greater automation of various projects and work with SAP systems
already in place in the organization.
7. Solution with “Unleash”
Unleash is a complete project management system which has tools
for change controls, waterfall and Agile project management. The
tools is CMMI level 3 complaint with Audit trails and automated
mechanisms for creation of road maps, release schedules, iteration
planning, review and retrospective schedules defined and assigned
to the individual team member calendars. A work dashboard to
manage portfolios, programs and “episodic events” is available.
Since the tools are based on cloud, it is easy to integrate and has
the ability to synchronize with SAP systems by automated reading
of excel files generated by SAP through scripts which run in
automated mode every midnight.
8. Solution Methodology
The following solution methodology was followed for integration of
“Unleash” into the client’s PMIS already in place, managed by PMO.
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9. Lessons Learned
• It was realized that the implementation of solution was a challenge
but the biggest challenge was a lack of focus on “change
management” required for the team to adopt to new environment.
• The project management trainings provided have gone a long way in
helping team members adopt the new systems. Many members had a
lack of awareness of Agile methodologies and had persisted with
usage of command and control systems. These were addressed as a
part of change management and were realized to be a key aspect of
ultimate client success.
10. Data Concerns, Contracts and solution
The customer has agreed to have our system be implemented on
their servers with a two year contract to have any changes be made
by our team.
The contract can be renewed after two years with an option to
completely buy the source code, for in-house customization by the
customers IT teams.