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RAPID PROJECT DELIVERY SERVICES
CONTENTS
Rapid Project
Delivery Services
Rapid
Delivery of Enterprise
Architecture Projects
Rapid Delivery Technologies for EA Projects
Project
Consulting Services
Project
References
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RAPID
PROJECT DELIVERY SERVICES
Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd (IES)
provides education and consulting services world-wide, using methods and
technologies that enable you to achieve rapid delivery of projects into
production. These services are delivered on a Just-In-Time basis according to
your project schedule, so that required skills are acquired by your project team
just before they need to be applied to the project. This ensures that they gain
the latest knowledge and their skills are fresh and current.
Our Rapid Project Delivery Services comprise
workshops and consulting services. These workshops are presented inhouse and can
be conducted on-site - or off-site if needed - at a time and a location of your
choosing. Each course is designed and tailored to address your project's
specific education needs. We will train all your project team members in the
skills that they need to apply in their assigned project. These team
members include business managers and business experts as well as IT project
staff members. Use the following links to decide which services apply to your
project.
Rapid Delivery of Enterprise Architecture
Projects
A rapid-delivery Enterprise
Architecture project progresses through a number of project phases,
depending on your specific environment and needs. Many clients
prefer to begin with an initial 5-day Project Overview inhouse course titled: "Rapid
Delivery of Enterprise Architecture" so that managers and
all project team members gain an overview of the various project
methods and phases that will be undertaken.
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Project Overview: Rapid Delivery of EA (5 Days)
This course provides an overview of all EA project methods and phases
through workshop-based training over 5 days - for
joint training of managers, business experts and IT staff in the concepts, project methods and
technologies for rapid delivery of Enterprise Architecture. It includes
the following courses:
Following this initial training, most
projects begin with the Strategic Modeling and EA Portfolio Plan
(EAPP) Phase. This typically takes 20-25 days on-site, depending on
the options requested. Priority business activities that are identified from
the EAPP by management for early delivery then progress though the
following workshop phases: Business Planning Workshop (Optional);
Tactical and Operational Modeling Workshop (Required);
and Activity and
Process Modeling Workshop (Optional).
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Strategic
Modeling and EA Portfolio Phase (20 Days)
This phase includes
the facilitated development of a Strategic Model and the delivery of an Enterprise Architecture
Portfolio Plan (EAPP) Report for rapid delivery of priority areas, defined and
documented uniquely for your enterprise.
The resulting Strategic Model and EAPP Report is used to identify key business
activities or business processes as priority subprojects, for rapid delivery
into production in 3-month increments using the workshops described below.
This typically takes 20 days on-site, or 25 days if a tailored
Governance Analysis Framework is also needed for use in the
Business Planning Workshop, next.
This workshop is required. It develops
the Strategic Model and documents the EAPP Report so that priority
subprojects can be identified, for early delivery through later
workshops.
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Business
Planning Workshop (5 Days)
This 5-day hands-on skills-transfer workshop in Business Planning methods transforms Strategic Plans into actionable and accountable Business Plans at
all management levels, for priority delivery.
These plans can optionally be captured
during the workshop in a
modeling tool for later use in the workshops below. The plans can also
be expanded to define personal scorecard measures for Balanced
Scorecard and Strategy Maps. They can be used for the definition and completion in
3-month increments of a
tailored Governance Analysis Framework to address Sarbanes-Oxley Internal
Control Reporting and other Corporate
Governance needs of your enterprise.
This workshop is optional, but is
recommended so that the business plans that will be used as a
catalyst for the project reflect the latest refined strategic
directions for the enterprise.
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Tactical and
Operational Modeling Workshop (5 Days)
This 5-day hands-on skills-transfer workshop
covers Business-Driven Data Modeling
methods to transform priority subprojects into detailed Logical Data Models
for rapid delivery.
This workshop applies the business data modeling skills
that are learned, using your project as the case study source. It
can optionally use a modeling tool to
expand the Strategic Model detail - for priority subprojects identified in the
EAPP Report - into fully attributed Logical Data Models. These data models can be
further analyzed, prioritized, generated and delivered as Physical Databases for your DBMS environment in
3-month increments.This workshop is
required. It is used to ensure that priority subprojects can be
defined in greater data model detail for early delivery.
- Activity
and Process Modeling Workshop (5 Days)
This 5-day hands-on skills-transfer workshop
covers Activity Modeling, Activity Based
Costing and Process Modeling methods to define and cost priority business
activities, then define the required business process logic for
implementation.
This workshop
shows you how to expand priority business activities - identified in the EAPP Report
- into Activity Models, along with Activity Based Costing. It can
optionally use a modeling
tool to apply the activity modeling skills learned, using your project as the case
study source. The resulting
Activity Models can be further transformed into Process Models. If required, executable code can
optionally be generated automatically in target languages
using a code generation tool, along with some
manually-written code, for delivery in 3-month increments.
This workshop is optional; however
it is highly recommended so that the priority business activities and processes
that are needed for early delivery be first defined in this workshop environment.
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Rapid
Delivery
Technologies for EA Projects
The rapid delivery of priority
subprojects into production in 3-month increments - as discussed for
Rapid Delivery of
Enterprise Architecture Projects above - assumes that the latest
technologies will be used. The following courses can be tailored and
presented inhouse for your project team members and other interested
staff.
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Enterprise Integration Technologies (2 Days)
This 2-day course covers integration technologies for
rapid delivery of Enterprise Architecture using XML, Enterprise Application
Integration (EAI), Enterprise Portals, Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
SOA uses Business Process Management (BPM) languages such as Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL), Business Process Modeling Language (BPML),
Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI) and Business Process Specification
Schema (BPSS) for ebXML. The course covers concepts, vendor products and strategies for
these technologies.
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Enterprise and e-Government Portals (3 Days)
This 3-day course covers the concepts,
technologies and strategies that are used by Enterprise Portals and
e-Government Portals for Collaboration, Content Management, Business
Intelligence and Enterprise Integration. Enterprise Portals can provide a
rapid delivery capability for Enterprise Architecture projects. The course discusses vendor
strategies and product capabilities for many Enterprise Portal and Content
Management products.
This 1-day course covers the implementation of
priority activities and processes using rapid delivery technologies based on XML,
XSL, XSLT and EAI. It addresses Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
using Business Process Management (BPM) languages. The course covers concepts, vendor products and strategies for
these technologies.
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PROJECT CONSULTING SERVICES
We provide Project Consulting Services in the various
methods and technologies that are presented in the Rapid Project Delivery Services above.
These include Quality Assurance consulting services associated with Just-In-Time
Project Team Training above, as well as Project Management and Technology Consulting Services.
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Quality Assurance Consulting Services
Associated with the workshops discussed in
"Rapid Delivery of Enterprise Architecture Projects", we also provide
Quality Assurance consulting services. These quality assurance services ensure
that all project team members correctly apply the relevant skills learned, as
they move up the project experience learning curve after each completed
workshop. This typically involves 5 days' on-site consulting per month; with
this consulting support gradually being reduced as the team demonstrates its
project self-sufficiency.
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Project Management Consulting Services
Also associated with the workshops discussed in
"Rapid Delivery of Enterprise Architecture Projects", we provide Project
Management consulting services. These project management services use the
analysis of the Strategic Model as documented in the EAPP Report
- along with further analysis of the Tactical and Operational Data Models - to
derive project plans and project maps for close project management of priority
rapid delivery sub-projects.
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Technology Consulting Services
Associated with the courses discussed in "Rapid
Delivery Technologies for Enterprise Architecture Projects", we provide
Technology consulting services. This technology consulting advises on the
appropriate strategies and vendor products for use with relevant technologies
within your enterprise for rapid delivery projects.
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PROJECT REFERENCES
The Rapid Project Delivery
Services - used to develop a Strategic Model and Enterprise
Architecture Portfolio Plan (EAPP) Report, along with (as
needed) the Business Planning Workshop, Tactical and Operational
Modeling Workshop, Activity and Process Modeling Workshop and
Project Consulting Services as described above
- have been applied successfully in many projects within
Government, Defense and Commercial enterprises world-wide. The
following links provide an overview of some of these projects.
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