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Migrating from Instantis 8.0 to EnterpriseTrack 8.7
Prepared by:
Thomas Cutting – Volantic, Inc
John Aragon & George Van Der Veen - BBCN
BBCN’s Customer Story
Session ID#: 200960
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Introductions
■ John Aragon
▪ SVP Implementations Manager, BBCN
▪ Project Sponsor
■ George Van Der Veen
▪ PM, Technology Advancement Group, BBCN
▪ Administrator
■ Thomas Cutting, PMP
▪ Project & Process Lead, Volantic, Inc.
▪ Configuration & Migration
Agenda
■ Background
■ Upgrade Decision Process
■ Delivery Plan
■ Implementation Reality
■ Migration Migraine
■ Lessons Learned
Background
BBCN Bank was formed in 2012 through the merger of two similar
sized banks. The new Bank found itself with a large number of
complex technology projects and a strategic plan that held out the
possibility future bank acquisitions.
Solution needed to address:
■ Over 100 projects to be tracked – range in size and complexity
■ Organization growth requires improved project management
methodology
■ Monitoring and reporting project status using Excel spreadsheets – ▪ Difficulty sharing spreadsheets on complex projects with multiple
managers
▪ Ineffective for tracking time and progress for complex projects
▪ Periodic management status reporting of all projects very time
consuming
■ Corporate objective to implement a standardized portfolio/project
management process in line with the FFIEC IT Examination
Handbook
Background
Vendor evaluation and selection:
■ Q4 2012 – 3 EPPM offerings considered, Instantis hosted Version
8.0 selected
■ Q1 2013 – configuration, on-boarding, training, testing and
implementation
Production configuration designed to support project management
methodology:
■ Large, Medium and Small projects supported
■ Four-phase waterfall project structure with milestones and tollgates
■ Standard activity templates built into Instantis
■ Standard project document templates created
■ Consolidated status reporting and dashboards created
■ Project initiation information captured in Instantis
■ Project workflow (Charter -> Proposal -> Project) implemented
Upgrade Decision Process
■ Performance
■ Update ―Slippage‖
■ Workflow Simplification
■ Re-author of templates and roadmaps
Delivery Process
Design • Review current Environment
• Document To Be
Build • Alpha in Sandbox
• Verification
• Beta on SaaS
Deploy • Training
• Production Move
• Migration
• Turn Over
Implementation Reality
■ Design
▪ Mirrored 8.0 in Sandbox
▪ Identified changes to incorporate
▪ Idea and Proposal functionality
■ Build
▪ 8.0 through 8.6 error messages a challenge
▪ 8.0 could not be exported / imported to later releases
▪ Oracle upgrade SaaS new environments to 8.7 mid-build
▪ LDAP unable to use multiple directories
▪ Changes in design for Activities, Roadmaps and Resources
Implementation Reality
■ Deploy
▪ Move to Production Mode limited UDF options
▪ Oracle Data Center Migration
— Delayed roll out slightly
— Smooth transition, good communication
▪ Transfer projects via MS Project
Migration Migraine - Resources
■ Simple concept
■ Changes to resource types, roles, etc. made it more challenging
■ Do-able, just time consuming
Migration Migraine – Projects
■ Transfer projects via MS Project
▪ Required MS Project 2007
▪ Created MS Project enabled template to align with old project
▪ Match Text26 to Text29 to 8.7
▪ Clear Text 30 for all Activities leaving WBS structure values
Migration Migraine – Projects
■ Simplified most
▪ One phase for Small Projects
▪ Stripped entire project and kept only project level security code
(text30)
Lessons Learned
■ Get on Oracle’s radar early and communicate dates
■ Design for simplicity and grow
▪ Original environment designed well but overkill for what was
actually used
▪ Ensure the pieces are activated for future use
Reconfigure Mode Capabilities
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Strategic
Consulting
• Assessments
• Requirements
• Roadmap
Training
• On site
• Virtual
• On Demand
Implementation
• Processes
Optimization
• Change
Management
• Installation
Technical • Integration • Cloud
Management • Custom Apps
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