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Oracle Unified Method (OUM)

Since retirement for Oracle legacy methods, there was lot of queries on OUM vs AIM ,
therefore this will help reader to know more about new method.

The OUM aka Oracle Unified Method supports the entire Enterprise IT Life cycle,
including support for the successful implementation of every Oracle product.

It is a robust, technology agnostic methodology Oracle Methods

Based on industry standards and field experience


Highly scalable to support project or program specific requirements
Iteratively developed through a continuous, evolutionary process

OUM Principal

This is based out of five main principles

1. Business: Focus on the business and assure stake holder acceptance and delivery
of the developments efforts.
2. Architecture: Define architecture before resources are committed for
development and implementation.
3. Adaptability: Encourages adaptability for scalable delivery across small and
large projects possessing disparate resources and skill levels.
4. Implementation: Provides rapid implementation techniques to ensure business
solutions in short time frames
5. Standards: Leverage the Unified Modeling Language and the Unified Software
Development Process

OUM is able to

Support the complete range of Oracle technology projects including

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)


Enterprise Integration
Custom Software
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
Business Intelligence (BI)
Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise Application Implementation
Software Upgrade

Currently Oracle Consulting using this methods, tools support a complete range of
technology engagements.
In Summary... OUM structure

is a comprehensive set of method materials that is applicable to any type of


information technology project.
is a plan-based method that includes overview material on various approaches
and standards.
It includes base guidelines for focus areas, views, phases, activities, processes and
tasks, as well as work product descriptions.

OUM basically have focus areas and there underline phases and processes , in summary

OUM FOCUS AREAS

These 3 Focus Areas provide a frameworks for enterprise level planning, project and
program management and implementing .

1. Envision Focus Area deals with development and maintenance of enterprise level
IT strategy, architecture, and governance. This also assists in the transition from
enterprise-level planning and strategy activities to the identification and initiation
of specific projects.
2. Manage Focus Area provides a framework in which all types of projects can be
planned, estimated, controlled, and completed in a consistent manner.
3. Implement Focus Area This focus Area provides a framework to develop and
implement Oracle-based business solutions .

Next let take a quick overview for Implement Focus area which got replacement of old
methods like AIM Foundation, AIM for Business Flows, Compass, Results Roadmap,
etc.

Understanding OUM's Implement Focus

This focus area typically based out of milestone based approach.Typical Milestone are:

Life cycle objective milestone


Life cycle architecture milestone
Initial operation capability milestone
System in production milestone
Sign-off milestone

As mention earlier this comprises of 5 phases and 14 processes, details as follows:

OUM Project Phases

The Workflows within an OUM project are categorized into five phases: Inception,
Elaboration, Construction, Transition, and Production. These phases are described below:
(A) Phase I: Inception :As the first phases in the project life cycle.Major goal of this
phase is to achieve concurrence among all stakeholders on the lifecycle objectives for the
project. Kick off's, review , high-level business requirements along with initial project
plan is being targeted in this phase only.

(B) Phase II: Elaboration :This is the second phases in the project life cycle, where
major focus would be to develop the detailed requirements models, partition the solution,
develop functional prototyping, and baseline the architecture of the system.

(C) Phase III: Construction :As the third phases in the project life cycle, Construction
focuses on design, implementation, and testing of functions to develop a complete
system.

(D) Phase IV: Transition :This typically consist from installation onto the production
system through the UAT and launch of the live application, open and ready for business.

(E) Phase V: Production : The goal of the Production phase is to operate the newly
developed system, assess the success of the system, and support the users. This includes:
monitoring the system; acting appropriately to ensure continued operation; measuring
system performance; operating and maintaining supporting systems; responding to help
requests, error reports and feature requests by users; and managing the applicable change
control process so that defects and new features are prioritized and assigned to future
releases.

OUM Process - Typically OUM process defined as "A discipline or sub-project that
defines a set of tasks related by subject matter, required skills, and common
dependencies". A process usually spans several phases in an approach.

All OUM tasks are also organized into processes that group related tasks together. Project
team members are assigned to these groupings according to their specialization and
background. OUM includes the following 14 processes
1. BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS [RD] Objective of the Business Requirements
process is to identify, refine, and prioritize the business requirements for the
proposed system
2. REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS [RA] Objective of the Requirements Analysis
process is to further analyze the requirements identified during the Business
Requirements process as the basis for analysis and design.
3. ANALYSIS [AN] Objective of the Analysis process is to analyze, refine, and
structure the system requirements via the Analysis Model.
4. DESIGN [DS] Objective of the Design process is to translate requirements into
a system design that meets all functional and supplemental requirements.
5. IMPLEMENTATION [IM] Objective of the Implementation process is to
develop the final system, through a number of iterative steps.
6. TESTING [TE] The Testing process is an integrated approach to testing the
quality and conformance of all elements of the new system.
7. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT [PT] Objective of the Performance
Management process is to define, construct, and execute an effective approach to
managing performance throughout the project life cycle.
8. TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE [TA] Objective of the Technical
Architecture process is to design an information system architecture that realizes
the business vision.
9. DATA ACQUISITION AND CONVERSION [CV] Objective of the Data
Acquisition and Conversion process is to convert all legacy data necessary for the
operation of the new system.
10. DOCUMENTATION [DO] Objective of the Documentation process is to
develop documentation that augments product manuals with information about
custom software and business procedures.
11. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT [OCM] Objective of the
Organizational Change Management process is to identify the human and
organizational challenges of the project in order to mitigate risk.
12. TRAINING [TR] Objective of the Training process is to adequately train the
project team to begin the project and train the users to run the new system.
13. TRANSITION [TS] Objective of the Transition process is to install the system
and go production.
14. OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT [PS] Objective of the Operations and Support
process is to monitor and respond to system problems to fix errors and
performance problems and plan enhancements.

Believe with this method companies get simplified project management, improved
planning, reduced risk which make them manage project within time within Budget.

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