ERP software project management and development of countermeasures

[Abstract] ERP ERP software as the infrastructure supporting the entire ERP system in support of the right ERP software management platform to establish only one may be effective. ERP system is facing a very complex business needs, which proposed the Development of ERP software a very high demand. In order to enhance the operational capacity and management level, successful strategies to achieve business transformation, have the necessary project management of ERP-based software Development, combined with practical work on the project to analyze the various steps to customize the process.

[Keywords] project management ERP software project Development

One, and users with confirmation that the project objectives and scope
Based project management for ERP software project Development, the initial step with the main goal is to confirm the user's objectives and scope of the project in the initial step, project members need to build ERP software scope and boundary conditions, including the software operating vision vision, and user acceptance criteria and included in the product does not contain content, the key distinction between the ERP system use cases, an initial estimate of the overall project cost and schedule; identify potential project risks; preparation of a project support environment.

The initial steps to achieve the goal, project personnel need to carry out the following activities:
ERP software project to clarify the scope of the project scope includes two meanings: ERP software functions and the implementation of ERP software Development scope. Project members need to capture the environment, the main requirements and constraints defined on the basis of the functional scope of ERP software, according to the formation of functional range of the scope of software development work performed. The functional scope of ERP software, ERP software products are recognized to the acceptance conditions prevail.

Planning and preparation for the commercial reasons. Assessment of project risks, project from a business perspective fully into account the cost / benefit to determine whether the project can be profitable, it is estimated the project the resources needed to determine whether the existing conditions to complete the project, to assess the various options selected.

Development of project proposals. Project formulation options for personnel, time for preliminary planning. Consider the defining element of a variety of projects, so you can estimate the cost, schedule and resources to prove the feasibility of the solution in order to refine and To implement this solution during the build.

Preparation of a project environment. When the project proved feasible, and after an initial program, you can prepare a formal development project environment. To develop the project process to determine which parts to improve the process, choose to develop a variety of software to be used hardware tools.

The end of the initial steps to assess the results of steps. Lifecycle milestone assessment is based on the artifacts generated by the project, project management for ERP software based on project development, the life cycle of ERP development milestones should include a list of project risks, commercial reasons, software development plan, iteration plan, iterative assessment, development process, development of infrastructure, the prospects for the business model ERP user, the demand for ERP software, use case model and other parts. Lifecycle milestones are measured in standard : ERP software development projects on the scope and user agreement, preliminary estimates project cost and schedule, and obtain the user's understanding and consent, and ERP software users to agree on the functional requirements, identify project risks and develop preventive measures.

Second, the construction ERP software system architecture
ERP for project-based management of software development refinement step is to construct the main objective of the ERP software system architecture for a large number of steps after the detailed design and implementation of components to provide a solid foundation to achieve the goal of refinement steps, project personnel need to carry out the following activities:
Sufficient detail to establish the use case model, to further understand and validate the user demand for ERP software, the user needs to ensure adequate and stable enough.

ERP software architecture constructed in the basic use cases need to be identified in the case, the designer should be defined as soon as possible the architecture of ERP software, verify the feasibility of, and ERP software architecture to establish a baseline.

ERP software for the construction of steps to develop a detailed iteration plan to ensure the implementation of ERP software, according to the status of the project steps to improve the development process and put into the development environment, including support for the team in building the necessary steps to develop processes, tools and automation support.

Third, based on the architecture to clarify the remaining requirements and complete the ERP software system development
Based project management for ERP software project development, building steps based on detailed steps to create the main objective of the ERP software architecture, to clarify the remaining requirements and complete ERP software systems. To achieve the goal of building steps, project personnel need to carry out the following Activities:
ERP software system to build the project's development at this time has been in full swing, this is the most time-consuming, manpower and other resources of the steps the project should be prepared to resource management and control, optimizing the development process in the build process, often the design model modification and optimization.

Test ERP software systems, according to the needs of users of ERP software and system design, arrange test cases and organize testing activities in control conditions to assess user acceptance of ERP products release. With the progress of construction steps, each composed of ERP software system unit been developed, need to follow the initial steps in the project and user acceptance of negotiated conditions to test the product. Links to free download http://www.hi138.com
The end of the build step, to assess the results of steps. RUP milestones of this step is called the initial operational capability milestone-based project management for ERP software project development, the initial operational capability milestone based on the work piece should include risk list, software development plan, iteration plan, ERP software, deployment, test cases, test assessment, support materials, business users, ERP software design models, ERP software and ERP product data model unit of deployment of initial operational capability milestone measure The standards are: development of the ERP product releases is to meet user requirements, development of the ERP product release is already stable enough and mature enough to deliver ERP implementation project team and users, the actual consumption of resources and planning compared to the still accepted.

Fourth, ensure that the ERP software can meet the requirements of business users
Based project management for ERP software project development, the main objective of the transfer step is to ensure that ERP software to meet business users or the requirements of ERP implementation project team the project need the following activities:
Into the enterprise environment, the deployment of ERP software, providing enterprise users with support materials, such as user manuals, training materials, etc.; field test can be delivered ERP products, created for the new ERP software product releases, get user feedback, adjust the product based on feedback .

The end of the transfer procedure, to assess the results of the step products are the most important piece is a milestone release of products and customer support materials. A milestone product release criteria for assessment are: business users and project team to implement ERP systems ERP software evaluation and satisfaction, the actual consumption of resources development projects and plans to spend compared to the acceptable.


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