Oracle E-Business Suite Project Management Best Practices

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Course Overview

If you're a project manager that is new to E-Business Suite project management, this course is for you. We will highlight why an EBS project is so special and so very different. If you're already an EBS project manager looking for some tips and guidelines to make your future projects even more successful, this course will address your goals as well.

After completion of this course, you'll be ready to get started planning your project and you'll know what to expect and look out for during the project lifecycle to ensure the success of your project.

Course Goals

• To provide students with a solid understanding of Project Management best practices for Oracle E-Business Suite implementations.
• To help project managers understand how managing an E-Business Suite project is different from other projects.
• To complete group break-out sessions and exercises in an interactive, instructor-led environment.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of project management concepts

Who Should Attend?

• EBS Project Managers
• Project Managers new to EBS implementations

Course Materials

• Student Handbook

Duration

• Two (2) days

Course Outline

• Methodology Overview
  • Apps Methodologies vs. Waterfall or Agile Methodologies
• Project Charter
  • Why is it so critical?
  • Defining Critical Success Factors
  • Defining Quality Criteria for the implementation
• Project Planning for E-Business Suite
  • Plan Evolution, Iteration and Maturation
  • Project Blue Prints - Why they are so important for EBS
  • Typical Apps Methodology and Project Phases
• Defining the Team Structure
  • Functional vs. Technical Groups
  • Business Process Flow Oriented Groups
  • Executive Team and Leadership to Drive Project Success
• Risk Management
  • Common E-Business Suite Risks
  • Risk Monitoring
  • Risk Reporting
• Reporting Project Status
  • Key Things to Monitor
  • How and What to Report on for an EBS Implementation Project
• Scope Management
  • Map and Gap Analysis
  • Vanilla vs. Customization
  • Who is Responsible for Monitoring and Managing Scope?
• Managing Organizational Change
  • Organizational Change Management Plan
  • Monitoring for Resistance - How to Identify when it's Occurring
• Planning for On-Going Support
  • Governance and System Access Levels
  • Planning for Post-Production Support