Release Planning – from Requirements to Deployment November 16 th, 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

AGENDA 1.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 EPM 1.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