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Development Services

Introduction

OAG's development services is designed to provide added flexiblilities and fully integrate the EPM and Financial systems with your business needs.

Technical Approach

OAG, in partnership with your Project and Finance Teams will tailor and deploy your Enterprise Project Management and Finance Systems to provide dynamic web based and custom enterprise project management planning, tracking, organizational and reporting capabilities. Using a phased approach (MSF – Microsoft Solutions Framework), to gather and document information regarding implementation of your EPM Solution.

The phases outlined in the technical approach are broken into discrete stages mapped to tangible deliverables:

Planning

The planning phase marks the system design stage of your project. During this phase, OAG will review the information and deliverables of the envisioning phase, such as functional specifications, and system configuration.

As part of this phase, OAG will review other requirementswith your team such as hardware and software requirements. The planning phase also includes business process development which will correlate your business processes with EPM procedures. The design process gives the team a systematic way to work from abstract concepts down to specific technical detail. This begins with a systematic analysis of user profiles which describe various types of users and their job functions (operations staff are users too).

These are broken into a series of usage scenarios, where a particular type of user is attempting to complete a type of activity, such as scheduling and building project plans. Each usage scenario is broken into a specific sequence of tasks, known as use cases, which the user performs to complete that activity. The results of this critical exercise are the System Design and System policies and procedures.

Development

During the developing phase OAG accomplishes most of the configuration and/or building of the EPM solution. However, some development work may continue into the stabilization phase as a response to testing. The developing phase involves more than installation and configuration. The existing IT infrastructure will also be reviewed during this phase.  In this case, your team will be responsible for any infrastructure requirements needed to enable and support the EPM solution.