From Specification to Implementation (III)

Continuing with related post (From Specification to Implementation) I will described the last processes implementation in a public organization supported with RedMine.

The final photo (today, forward work will be done) consist on:

A set of processes:

• Project Planning (CMMI)
• Project Monitoring and Control (CMMI)
• Requirements Development (CMMI)
• Requirements Management (CMMI)
• Release Management (ISO 20.000)
• Defect Management 

A group of roles (RedMine roles):

• Sponsor
• Expert User
• Functional Director
• Project Manager
• Project Team 
• System Manager
• System Team

And several management elements (RedMine trackers):

• New Initiative
• Goal
• Project Plan
• Requirement
• Requirement Change
• Sprint
• Release
• Version
• Defect
• Request for Change (development)

With these three group of elements the new methodology is ready to be used. The relationship between then is described in the following picture:

Further related documentation have been generated: templates, reports, user manual, change management... and everything is supported with wiki and document functionality.

From Specification to Implementation (II)

Starting from previous post, several approach could be done to get a process implementation in any organization.

From our experience, the process implementation consist on the following main steps:

• Initial Situation: this set of task consists of several techniques and work focus on identifying organization needs, how the organization is working, strengths and vulnerabilities.
• This work generates a document that identifies such things and propose a improvement process divided in three scenarios.
• Process Implantation: once the goal of the first implantation has been defined, the work will be lead by defining working group for each process, in order to identify in detail how tasks activities are being delived nowadays, and how could be unified, attended and systematized to reach users needs and organization goals

Process Implantation finish when the organization has several process implanted with:

• Entries
• Outputs
• Tasks
• Roles
• Reports
• Metrics
• A tool or a set of tools that support it
• Training sessions - Change management
• Initial support

From my point of view the supporting tool is the key to organize any process, and it will allow:

• Monitorization
• Measurement
• Regulation
• Support
• Collaboration

Any ticketing tool will help to fit your needs, we have used RedMine as project management tool and we have good experiences with it.