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Unified Method (OUM)
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OUM has evolved to become the single methodology for all Oracle
products – supporting the entire Enterprise IT lifecycle. Every
successful project depends on a mature, enriched methodology. OUM is
your map to success!
OUM is Oracle’s standards-based method that enables the entire
Enterprise Information Technology (IT) lifecycle. It provides an
implementation approach that is rapid, broadly adaptive, and
business-focused. OUM includes a comprehensive project and program
management framework and materials to support Oracle's growing focus
on enterprise-level IT strategy, architecture, and governance
OUM is available to Oracle PartnerNetwork Diamond, Platinum, and
Gold Partners as a benefit of membership.
Key Benefits
More Focused Effort
– OUM enables projects to clearly define business scope and needs
to create architectural models of the enterprise. This planning
results in tighter scope control, more accurate business
understanding, and a firm foundation for client acceptance.
Built-in Flexibility
– By combining activities and tasks in different ways, OUM can be
applied to many types of information technology software development
and implementation projects.
Saves Time –
Seasoned information technology practitioners representing years of
experience have contributed their knowledge to OUM. Project teams
can take advantage of this experience by leveraging these leading
practices along with industry standards.
Higher Quality –
OUM subscribes to an iterative approach that incorporates testing
and validation throughout the lifecycle, rather than testing for
quality only at the end of the project.
More Cost Effective
– OUM facilitates improved control of project expenses by using a
flexible work breakdown structure that allows you to perform only
necessary tasks.
- Reduced Project Risk – Implementing an
iterative, broadly applicable method mitigates requirements
mismatch. A key focus of each iteration in OUM is to identify and
reduce the most significant project risks. This ensures that the
most critical risks are addressed as early as possible in the
project lifecycle, which results in a measurable reduction of
schedule and budget risks.
What's in Oracle Unified Method
The Oracle Unified Method offering provides you with a
comprehensive toolkit:
Overview Material – Provides an
overview of OUM's approach to IT projects, including the industry
standards upon which OUM is based.
Guidelines – Phase, process,
task, role, and work product guidelines cover every aspect of an
Oracle-based business solution.
Templates – Templates enable
fast and easy creation of high quality work products.
- Tailored Work Breakdown Structure – These standards enable
an easy start in managing your project.
OUM Principal
This is based out of five main
principles
Business: Focus
on the business and assure stake holder acceptance and delivery of
the development’s efforts.
Architecture:
Define architecture before resources are committed for development
and implementation.
Adaptability:
Encourages adaptability for scalable delivery across small and large
projects possessing disparate resources and skill levels.
Implementation:
Provides rapid implementation techniques to ensure business
solutions in short time frames
- Standards: Leverage the Unified Modeling
Language and the Unified Software Development Process
OUM is able to…
Support the complete range of Oracle technology projects including
Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA)
Enterprise Integration
Custom Software
Enterprise Performance Management
(EPM)
Business Intelligence (BI)
Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise Application
Implementation
- Software Upgrade
Currently Oracle Consulting using this methods, tools support a
complete range of technology engagements.
OUM
FOCUS AREAS
These 3 Focus Areas provide a frameworks for
Enterprise level
planning,
Project and program management and
Implementing
.
Envision
Focus Area deals
with development and maintenance of enterprise
level IT strategy, architecture, and governance.
This also assists in the transition from enterprise-level planning
and strategy activities to the identification and initiation of
specific projects.
Manage
Focus Area
provides a framework in which all types of projects can be planned,
estimated, controlled, and completed in a consistent manner.
- Implement Focus
Area This focus
Area provides a framework to develop and implement Oracle-based
business solutions .
Next let take a quick overview for Implement Focus area which got
replacement of old methods like
AIM Foundation, AIM for
Business Flows, Compass, Results Roadmap, etc.
Understanding OUM's
Implement Focus
This focus area typically based out of milestone based approach.
Typical Milestone are:
Life cycle objective milestone
Life cycle architecture milestone
Initial operation capability
milestone
System in production milestone
- Sign-off milestone
As mention earlier this comprises of
5 phases and
14
processes, details as follows
OUM Project Phases
The Workflows within an OUM
project are categorized into five phases: 1) Inception,
2) Elaboration,
3) Construction,
4) Transition,
and 5) Production.
These phases are described below:
(A) Phase
I:
Inception
:As the
first phases in the project life cycle. Major goal of this phase is
to achieve concurrence among all stakeholders on the life cycle
objectives for the project. Kick off's, review , high-level business
requirements along with initial project plan is being targeted in
this phase only.
(B) Phase
II:
Elaboration
:This is the
second phases in the project life cycle, where major focus would be
to develop the detailed requirements models, partition the solution,
develop functional prototyping, and baseline the architecture of the
system.
(C) Phase
III:
Construction
:As the
third phases in the project life cycle, Construction focuses on
design, implementation, and testing of functions to develop a
complete system.
(D) Phase IV:
Transition
:This typically consist from installation onto the
production system through the UAT and launch of the live application,
open and ready for business.
(E) Phase
V:
Production
: The goal of the Production phase is to operate the
newly developed system, assess the success of the system, and support
the users. This includes: monitoring the system; acting appropriately
to ensure continued operation; measuring system performance;
operating and maintaining supporting systems; responding to help
requests, error reports and feature requests by users; and managing
the applicable change control process so that defects and new
features are prioritized and assigned to future releases.
OUM Process
- Typically OUM process defined as "A discipline or
sub-project that defines a set of tasks related by subject matter,
required skills, and common dependencies". A process usually
spans several phases in an approach.
All OUM tasks are also organized into processes that group related
tasks together. Project team members are assigned to these groupings
according to their specialization and background. OUM includes the
following 14 processes
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
[RD] – Objective of the Business Requirements process is to
identify, refine, and prioritize the business requirements for the
proposed system
REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS
[RA]– Objective of the Requirements Analysis process is to further
analyze the requirements identified during the Business Requirements
process as the basis for analysis and design.
ANALYSIS [AN]–
Objective of the Analysis process is to analyze, refine, and
structure the system requirements via the Analysis Model.
DESIGN [DS] –
Objective of the Design process is to translate requirements into a
system design that meets all functional and supplemental
requirements.
IMPLEMENTATION
[IM] – Objective of the Implementation process is to develop the
final system, through a number of iterative steps.
TESTING [TE]–
The Testing process is an integrated approach to testing the quality
and conformance of all elements of the new system.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
[PT]– Objective of the Performance Management process is to
define, construct, and execute an effective approach to managing
performance throughout the project life cycle.
TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE
[TA]– Objective of the Technical Architecture process is to design
an information system architecture that realizes the business
vision.
DATA ACQUISITION AND
CONVERSION [CV]– Objective of the Data Acquisition and
Conversion process is to convert all legacy data necessary for the
operation of the new system.
DOCUMENTATION
[DO]– Objective of the Documentation process is to develop
documentation that augments product manuals with information about
custom software and business procedures.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
MANAGEMENT [OCM]– Objective of the Organizational Change
Management process is to identify the human and organizational
challenges of the project in order to mitigate risk.
TRAINING [TR]–
Objective of the Training process is to adequately train the project
team to begin the project and train the users to run the new system.
TRANSITION [TS]–
Objective of the Transition process is to install the system and go
production.
- OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT [PS]– Objective of
the Operations and Support process is to monitor and respond to
system problems to fix errors and performance problems and plan
enhancements.
Believe with this method companies get
simplified project management, improved planning, reduced risk which
make them manage project within time within Budget. Next post will
more the details for other Focus area. Keep watching this space.
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