Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment

November 16th, 2010

Presenters

Wendy L. Shannon Director, CRS Program, PMO Global Payments

Robert Kelly Senior Project Manager, PMO Global Payments

Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment

AGENDA1. Housekeeping

2. Defining and Modeling a Release Plan

3. Modeling Deliverables on the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)

- Tricks to Clearly define the deliverables on the WBS

4. Resource Pool utilization and EPM (Enterprise Project Management)

- How to handle resource contention on EPM

Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment

Defining and Modeling a Process

1. What type of questions to ask?

2. How to handle external dependencies

3. Creating a milestone with a duration and a resource

Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment

Modeling Project Phases 1. Initial GAP analysis

2. Requirements Section

3. Design Section

4. Develop and Unit test Section

5. Deployment Section

Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment

Resource Pool Utilization and EPM1. Adding a resource with an existing assignment to

a new project on EPM

2. View resources status

3. Avoid conflicts with resource allocation

Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment

Conclusion– With the use of Microsoft Project and EPM, we

have demonstrated how to model the ‘Release Planning Process’. 

– We highlighted a standardized reusable template, a clear concise way of defining deliverables and external dependencies as well as how to avoid conflicts with resource allocation on multiple plans.

Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment

Wrap Up / Questions?

Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment