General Definitions for Siebel Objects
If you're just getting to know Siebel, this is a good place to start. This simple glossary of terms related to Seibel Enterprise Applications will give you a good foundation.
Application Development > Objects and Components
System Scope
This matrix will help you determine which systems and their components will be replaced, changed or impacted by the new application package.
Techniques to Facilitate Reuse
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! It's not just an environmental slogan, it's a project manager's dream. Document standards as to how to reuse development objects and approaches on your project, as in this IEF-based client/server example.
Data Warehouse Business Objects Standards
This example will help you put in place logical as well as physical database design standards for building data warehouses using Business Objects.
Business Scope
This document outlines the Business Scope, which is a description of the area of the business to be supported by the application package, including the specific business activities to be supported, the business objects to be managed and the organizations and sites to be supported.
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Web-Style Application Administration
For the workforce that is widely dispersed, sharing application development, design and testing responsibilities goes beyond the normal struggles that hit most project teams.
Achieving Organizational Alignment
The elusive achievement of organizational alignment in corporate America is striking. What is needed is the development of an organizational structure and culture that dynamically self-adjusts and recalibrates to an ever-changing environment.
Data Warehouse Asset Management Data Mart Plan
This excellent Microsoft Project plan will help you implement a complete life cycle project to design and build a data warehouse.
Presentation Model Form
Here is a straightforward guide for designing the windows, dialogs and controls of your application's GUI, with the rationale for selecting specific GUI objects based on user tasks.
Application Developer's Architecture Checklist
An important part of developing an application is designing its overall architecture. Use this checklist as a measure of insurance that your software architecture design is sound and will properly enable and support the application and its users.
Test Sign-Off Form
Has your system been properly tested by phase (unit, integration, user acceptance), and do you have the formal sign-off of approval to proceed?
Configuration Management Hand-Off Form
The system is ready for testing, and you'd better check to see if everything is there. Formalize the hand-off process between the development team and the testing team with this checklist and signoff form.
Feature Teams
On multi-team development projects, there are significant advantages in having each team organize around the end-to-end delivery of features as opposed to working on separate components. Fewer handoffs reduce waste and integration-related risks. And feature teams have a clearer understanding of the impact of design decisions. However, in some circumstances, component teams offer benefits.
Components of a Statement of Work (SOW)
The statement of work (SOW) encompasses the goals, scope, deliverables, cost and schedule estimates, stakeholder roles, chain of command and communication guidelines for a project. Learn how to put a quality SOW together by studying its components.
Computing the Cost of Component Strategies
This Powerpoint presentation dishes up formulas to help you make a bullet-proof business case for component-based application package development and deployment.
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New board members will join nine returning members to help guide the organization’s growth in the coming year.
Technical Architecture Components
Itemize the software and middleware tools, hardware components and communication components that comprise your technical architecture, with justification for choosing each.
Workgroup Workflow Planner
This form is designed to assist a project manager with ensuring that every workgroup is prepared to function at peak performance prior to the start of work. The planner uses a quick but detailed analysis of the components of workgroup performance success. The items evaluated are typically controlled within a project.
The SOA Project Manager
Project managers usually tend to focus on the methodology for executing the technical part of the project. However, a good understanding of a practical SOA landscape and its associated challenges can help a technical PM make the SOA adoption on technology projects run even smoother.
Alternative Frameworks
Ever stop to ponder all the different PM frameworks that have been developed over the years and which one you should be using in your organization? Is there really one best framework out there? The options are dizzying, so here we take a look at four of them in depth. What can they do for you? Remember, one size does not fit all...
Ensuring Quality in the Brave New World of SOA
To understand Services Oriented Architecture and its implications on quality assurance, one must look at how software has evolved over the years.
Siebel Implementation With RAD Component Plan
Are you implementing Siebel and feel the need for speed? This Microsoft Project plan superimposes a rapid application development (RAD) component on a standard Siebel implementation.
Installation and Removal Procedures
Make sure there is clear documentation on how to install and, if necessary, remove all system components.
Installation Package
What is needed to install the customized package or system and make it operational? Here's a checklist to guide you.
System Change Specifications
Legacy systems must be modified to integrate a new application package. Use these tables to define, track and prioritize the changes to each legacy system and system component.
Integration Test Plan Outline
Here is a solid outline of a plan for testing individual development components in context with the overall system.
Distributed Application Partitioning Form
If you're developing a distributed application system, this form will help you make strategic design decisions on how to partition system components.
Security Requirements Form
Ensure that your application, network and database is secure from unauthorized user access. Define your security requirements with this specifications form and checklist.
Database Information Gathering Questionnaire
This Database Information Gathering tool is a vital component of hardware and software deployment. Use this questionnaire as primary guidance. Then include any other requirements that suit your particular business specifications.
Common Component Change Request
Use this Common Component Change Request Form to track all component change requests.
Developing an Information Systems Strategic Plan
The ulimate goal of any organization is to keep its stakeholders happy. That's how you thrive in business. This presentation explains how you can design your IS function to uphold the objectives of the organization in meeting this most important goal.
The Right Frame of Reference
You wouldn't build a skyscraper without the right structural framework. Likewise, developing applications and systems means knowing the frameworks to build on.
Full-Integration Product Design
As products become increasingly complex, design teams must integrate a wide range of expertise throughout the development process. This offers new opportunities for innovation while helping to carry the vision all the way through to production and curtailing late compromises.
Workgroup Workflow Troubleshooter
Performance issues cropping up in your workgroup? Stop them before they get out of control using this form.
Performance Management Checklists
Evaluating, correcting and planning employee performance is essential to your role as a leader. This extensive set of checklists will help you with all your performance management details.
Project Reporting Guidelines
Reporting is an underlying component of the project control system that affects all other components. As a project manager, you need to keep track of the work accomplished and what needs to be done. An effective reporting mechanism would be helpful in reducing the number of problems within a project.
MOM Meets DAD
The next generation of Internet systems may need more than just DAD to succeed. Fortunately, MOM can help.
Application Architecture Assessment Checklist
Need some help assessing the architecture of your applications? Look no further.
A PM’s Software Utility Belt
Projects can be delivered without software tools, but it sure makes it easier if you have a few tools in your pocket to make project execution a little easier. Inside you'll find four key tools you can apply on everyday engagements.
Project Plan Development Checklist
Creating a project plan is an essential, multifaceted step in your software development project. Use this checklist to make sure you've addressed the critical components and the things you might not readily think of to create a plan that will ensure a successful project.
In Communication We Trust
Regardless of your communication style and the means through which you decide to communicate to customers, the important component of any message you send requires that you build a component of trust into every exchange.
What a Difference a Year Makes
Staying on top of technology trends is one of the biggest advantages a CIO can grab. Here's a look at what's hot for this year, so you can keep your sites on the ever-moving technology target.
Roll Your Own DAD!
When you're starting a development process, you have to start somewhere. Academic is one way to go, UML or OPEN might be a more practical way. The DAD process on gantthead might be your first step. Here are some thoughts to get you headed in the right direction.
Getting Down and Scrummy
How can you adapt Scrum-like tools and techniques within a Waterfall project management environment? What can you do to reduce resistance and reap the benefits Scrum has to offer? In short, how can you get down and Scrummy within a Waterfall world? Here are some ideas you might find useful.
Process Management Application Rollout Plan
Improve your organization's process management capabilities by implementing a toolset that stores your customized methodologies as reusable, improvable processes and converts them into detailed project plans. Here's a Microsoft Project Plan for implementing just such a toolset.
Data Cleansing
Stay clean and secure with this data cleansing project plan.
Data Cleansing Plan
Stay clean and secure with this data cleansing project plan.
Development Projects List
What projects do you need to conduct to fully implement the application package you've selected? Might be a big job -- better assess what and when.
Application Package Technical Environment
Know the technical foundation on which you will be setting up your application package -- do a gap assessment of the existing and new technical environment.
Package Release Strategy
You'll need a strategy to define how, when, where and what pieces of the new application will be released to the organization.
