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.
Process > Rapid Application Development
Siebel Implementation with RAD Iterations
A total roll-out of Siebel, including Rapid Application Development phases, testing, training and even change management is in this comprehensive Microsoft Project plan.
RAD Customer Business Service System Project Plan
This comprehensive project plan proposes a Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach to implementing a complete customer business service system (processing of customer contacts, accounts, billing, etc.). It reports the findings of a six-week planning/investigative phase and forecasts the analysis, design, construction and testing phases of the project.
Rapid Application Development Project Plan
Rapid Application Development (RAD) is designed to deliver systems very quickly. Project scope, size and circumstances all determine the success of a RAD approach. Use this Microsoft Project plan for your RAD project.
Rapid Training Development Risk Areas and Management Tasks
Reduce costs of project training by using Rapid Training Development (RTD). Reduce the risk inherent in RTD by using this guide.
PMXPO 2012
gantthead is once again excited to be bringing you our annual virtual conference and exhibition on Thursday, May 17, 2012. It's your opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and gain valuable knowledge all from the comfort of your home, office-or home office. Registration is FREE, so take a minute now and make sure you don't miss out on what promises to be one of the highest-value conference experiences in project management this year.
gantthead is once again excited to be bringing you our annual virtual conference and exhibition on Thursday, May 17, 2012. It's your opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and gain valuable knowledge all from the comfort of your home, office-or home office. Registration is FREE, so take a minute now and make sure you don't miss out on what promises to be one of the highest-value conference experiences in project management this year.
A Time-Driven Rapid Product Development Process for Business Results
From Gartner PPM Summit 2006
In this session, Kraft Bell, Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, discusses the importance of change and process design principles in acheiving success in rapid product development.
Prototyping
This plan will help you if you are using Rapid Prototyping as a software development process. This method is gaining a lot of popularity among software companies; a Web-based application is used as an example.
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...
A Time-Driven, Rapid Product Development Process for Business Results
From Gartner PPM Summit 2007
Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst Kraft Bell examines nonintuitive inhibitors to product development, foundational principles for product development and change, and practical frameworks and tools for rapid NPD.
Agile and Scrum: Why Not?
Some love 'em. Some loathe 'em. But these frameworks and schools of PM thought are here to stay. What benefits and challenges do they present? Read on for both sides of the alternative equation...
webWAVE Ongoing Development Project Plan
Now that you've built yourself an intranet, you'll have to maintain it. This Microsoft Project plan will help you do just that.
What's Agility Anyway?
Agile practices are not intrinsically “value-adding” — they must be aligned to business needs and goals in order to provide true value. By measuring their agility based on compliance with a particular method, organizations may prevent their teams from adapting practices to suit projects with different characteristics and needs.
Self-Documenting Code Checklist
Code is a developer's signature on a software project, and not all developers play by the rules of good coding standards. Ensure that your development team leaves a coding legacy that not only implements the application at hand but can be understood by others and maintained during future development cycles.
HarperCollins Chooses Innotas
HarperCollins needed an intuitive solution that could manage and track its Digital Technology Services work for over 100 global users. With Innotas’ on-demand IT Governance solution, the publisher was able to manage both strategic projects and sprints with the same tool.
The Art of Software Delivery
The key criteria used to determine the successful outcome of a project applied against other engineering disciplines are also applicable to software ones. If we know that, why do software projects have a poor track record of delivery? Read on to find out how we can improve it.
Becoming Lean-er in Lean Times
Despite this global recession, the competitive landscape keeps becoming more urgent and faster paced. You will be expected to keep managing new projects to keep your organization competitive--but will do so with less (and exhausted) resources, tight budgets and more scrutiny for success. How does one meet such challenges and succeed? One of the agile practices tailor made for such an environment is the Lean method.
Cracking the Code
Developers have been slow to adopt it, but code generation is coming into its own. This article will examine improvements which make this technology a better bet than ever before and discuss which projects can benefit most from code generation.
Application Lifecycle Resourcing?
Should your development teams stay with a product from birth to retirement, or should there be “expert” teams for the different needs of each stage of the lifecycle? Here we look at the advantages of both--and the real world factors that you also need to consider.
Post-Project Review Form
Your application development project is over, and there were costs incurred and lessons learned, all of which should be recorded to better plan and estimate future development projects. Use this form to capture this essential information.
Distributed Application Development Project Plan
Imagine if you could get the stages and steps of a Distributed Application Development methodology distilled into a ready-to-use Microsoft Project plan. You can! Download it now.
Application Architecture Assessment Checklist
Need some help assessing the architecture of your applications? Look no further.
Custom Application Implementation Strategy
Implementing a custom application requires a comprehensive strategy. This guide will aid you in developing and administering that strategy.
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.
BPMS: The New Rage
Do you even know what it stands for? You should...Business Process Management Systems represent the next wave of development.
Seven Signs
Headed for trouble? Here are some ways out of the mess. This article will revisit seven of the most common causes for project failure, consider their solutions and provide some techniques you might have missed such as developing an ERD from Day One, and driving the user interface based on the structure of your data.
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Information System Project
This detailed Microsoft Project plan will help you plan and execute the conversion of a legacy information system to a new distributed application system. It uses the gantthead Distributed Application Development Process, customized for the Environmental Industry.
Application Development Tool Selection Form
If you and your team have a bunch of application development tools to evaluate, use this form to make the job easier.
Application Development Project Plan Overview
Summarize at-a-glance the purpose and approach for undertaking an application development project, for the benefit of your senior level management as well as your customer.
Vendor Outsourcing Evaluation Checklist
Outsourcing your software development project is risky, but it can be a cost-effective business move if you select your outsourcing partners very carefully. Use this checklist of criteria to evaluate a candidate vendor's reputation, stability, capability, cost and overall ability to deliver.
System Architecture
You'll be able to see what interfaces with what by looking at these diagrams.
Distributed Application Preliminary Design Review
Are you prepared to design? The end of the analysis phase is a milestone in an application development project, prime time to assess the accuracy and completeness of the business models and technical design thus far. Use this comprehensive review form to catch all the red flags and guide the development of design specs.
Quality Management Systems Procedures: Software Development
This procedure defines all the activities involved in software development, from design through unit testing.
Raven Professional
Solution provides a robust desktop environment for defining and validating business requirements, and then generating the associated requirements specifications.
The Social PM Approach
Product development requires a unified, collaborative team effort. A social project management framework, combined with the right social tools, helps to connect team activities to the product development process and stakeholders. The benefits include increased visibility, more accurate estimates, responsive, real-time analysis and streamlined workflows.
Software Development: Traditional or Alternative?
How do you align the method to the natural attributes of a project? First, you have to understand the various software development project approaches. This article provides an overview of several popular SDP approaches and identifies some basic criteria for selecting one approach over another.
Extranet Project Plan
Here is an example of a complete web site development project plan, from Requirements Planning (Discovery) through Deployment.
Application Portfolio Management: Governance, Process and Execution
From Gartner. In this session from the June 2005 PPM Summit, Jim Duggan, Research Vice President for Gartner, looks at the elements of governance, assessment and operational processes that successful implementations have exploited.
Rally Agile ALM Platform
Rally Software has extended its Agile ALM platform to meet the needs of global organizations with customization options, full traceability with build and source code, and corporate dashboards to create a single source of record for progress and quality.
PPM Solutions: April 2011
A wide variety of technology solutions and services are available to help organizations implement, customize and improve their project portfolio management processes. Here is our April roundup of recent announcements from Daptiv, HP, Oracle, Planview and PowerSteering.
Agile Advances
New tools and techniques are helping even the most traditional and geographically dispersed companies adopt agile approaches to software development. And it’s none too soon, as technology and economic trends raise the bar on rapid communication and positive return-on-investment.
GUI Design Standards
The key to making your application usable is a standardized, well-designed graphical user interface (GUI). This example defines GUI design standards and guidelines for an application built with Oracle Forms 5.0.
DAD Systems Documentation Plan
This Microsoft Project plan reflects the activities for documenting the functionality of a distributed application system in a retail environment, i.e., order processing, pricing, inventory, shipping, customer and distributor administration, marketing, etc.
Data Warehouse Total Implementation Plan
Stolen from Real Life (a data warehouse development project for a waste water treatment management system), this Microsoft Project plan takes you through the construction of a complete data warehouse from start to finish.
Design Process Checkpoints
Does your project team and your client know what the project milestones should look like? Describe the progressive milestones and their relationship to the rest of the project, as in this example of the design phase of an application development project.
Project Team Training Plan
Improved deliverable! Use this training plan to prepare your project team to hit the ground running and get the just-in-time skills, business policy and application training they need to do the job.
Agile Quality Assurance: Making the Mind Shift
QA in an Agile environment is very different…are your teams ready? Here we look at how QA needs to evolve in order to best support Agile development practices.
Financial Application Development Plan
Developing a complex financial application with many processing modules is the stuff of which nightmares are made. There are lots of steps, each with its own headache. Take two aspirin and use this sample Microsoft Project plan to help you through.
DAD Package Implementation Plan
Are you implementing a package in a distributed application development environment? You need a plan for the full implementation cycle, from planning and requirements analysis through deployment. Here's a sample from a Warehousing/Shipping environment.
Finalist Vendor Directory
Get ready for the playoffs. This directory describes those application package vendors and their products that have made it to the final evaluation round for your development project.
PMI Project of Year: Prairie Waters
Completed two months ahead of schedule and $100 million under budget, the CH2M HILL-led Prairie Waters Project has received Project Management Institute's 2011 Project of the Year Award.
