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Help! They Expect Me to Be an Oracle Projects Business Analyst
- 1. Help! They Expect Me to Be an Oracle Projects Business Analyst! Session 12760 Louise Abdulkader Projects People International
- 2. Visit our new blog at www.OracleProjectsBlog.com • Projects People International, LLC. was founded in 2004 to assist project centric organizations in finding the best resources for their Oracle system requirements. The term “Projects People” has become synonymous with the people, both users and consultants, who are passionate about the Oracle Projects Suite products. Keeping abreast of the features and functionality emerging with each new release, in addition to understanding the ever expanding integration points and products, requires a commitment that far exceeds just using or implementing the applications. It is this dedication to the Projects Suite products that labels some people “Projects People.” www.projectspeople.com
- 3. The Role of an Oracle Projects ‘Business Analyst’ How to Support (Really Know) Oracle Projects Oracle My Support Resources Other Resources Available KEY POINTS
- 4. The Good News First
- 5. Consistently Ranked as one of the best and most in demand Jobs in America BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, proposes the following definition of a business analyst: "An internal consultancy role that has responsibility for investigating business systems, identifying options for improving business systems and bridging the needs of the business with the use of IT."
- 6. Business Analysts are ‘Knowledge Workers’ •Analyzing data to establish relationships •Assessing input in order to evaluate complex or conflicting priorities •Identifying and understanding trends •Making connections •Ability to brainstorm, thinking broadly (divergent thinking) •Ability to drill down, creating more focus (convergent thinking) •Producing a new capability •Understanding cause and effect •Creating or modifying a strategy Knowledge worker roles Knowledge workers bring benefits to organizations in a variety of important ways. These include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_worker
- 7. • The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) describes the role as: "a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals." “someone who apart from gathering Business requirements, also assists in Integration and Acceptance Testing, supports the development of training and implementation material, participates in the implementation, and provides post-implementation support. “
- 8. Oracle Specific Methodologies • As an Oracle Business Analyst it is important to understand the framework of Oracle’s Application Implementation Methodology (AIM) and the Oracle United Method (OUM) • This will enable you to effectively communicate with industry consultants and experienced Oracle resources
- 9. AIM was retired in 2011
- 13. Enterprise Analysis • Purpose: Identify and propose projects that meet strategic needs and goals • Tasks: Identify Business Need, Determine Solution Approach, Define Solution Scope, Develop the Business Case
- 14. Build a Business Blueprint • What are the desired reporting goals? What needs to be measured? What are the key performance indicators? • What do people need to do their everyday jobs efficiently and accurately? • What is mandatory – internal and external?
- 15. Greatest Deficiencies • Root Causes for the following: • Manual Processes • Reconciliation Problems • Inaccuracies in Data • Financial Closing Delays
- 16. Elicitation • Purpose: Explore, identify, document and confirm stakeholder needs • Task: Prepare for elicitation, conduct elicitation, document results, validate results
- 17. Preparation and Planning • Identify all stakeholders • Finance, Project Management (PMO or Program Control), Human Resources, Contracts, etc. • Never forget the “Single Source of Truth’ concept
- 18. Back To Basics • Sometimes what you really need is less…Simplify • Use standard functionality or extensions to replace manual or difficult processes
- 19. Requirements Analysis • Purpose: Elaborate stated requirements to sufficient level of detail to accurately define the business need • Tasks: Organize, prioritize, specify and model results, establish use cases
- 20. Enumerate Your Requirements • Make it testable under all scenarios • State all assumptions and known constraints for validation • Define source of requirement, i.e. Is it statutory, corporate governance, defined policy, customer mandated, etc. • Focus on desired results
- 21. Solution Assessment • Gap Analysis – Mapping requirement to existing functionality • Include any known information regarding planned product enhancements • Include alternatives considered – Is there another way to achieve results?
- 22. Invaluable Resource Technical Resources Will need your assistance in finding information
- 23. Billing Extensions Lots of information related to design concepts for extensions Provide Information to Technical Resources
- 24. The Not So Good News • You will never feel you have the time to explore new features and improve business processes if you spend your time chasing down exceptions and working on Production Support problems…
- 25. What Makes Projects Different? • Projects is a full suite of products fully integrated with many other E-Business Suite Projects • There is functionality in Projects that is often misunderstood, misconfigured, misused or unknown
- 26. Oracle Projects
- 28. Sixty-Two References to Exception Reports Every process produces exception reports
- 29. Have a Smooth Closing… • Period Close Advisor: E-Business Suite (EBS) [ID 335.1] • Period Close Procedures And Exceptions in Oracle Projects Release 12 [ID 1336233.1]
- 31. Read and Understand the Step by Step Guide
- 32. Read Everything and Look for Conflicting Information
- 33. •How To, Troubleshooting Guides & FAQ’s •Knowledge Searches •Product User and Implementation Guides •Diagnostic Scripts and Guides •E-TRM Electronic Technical Reference Manual TOOLS OF THE TRADE Oracle’s My Support Site
- 34. Transaction Import Everything you need to know for troubleshooting and training Diagrams for use in Documents
- 35. Electronic Technical Reference Manual E-TRM E-TRM
- 36. Training for Diagnostics Anyone can use diagnostics!
- 38. Patch and Form Version Info
- 39. Linked In Groups • OAUG Conference Paper Database • Blogs: www.oracleprojectsblog.com Search for Oracle application blogs • Oracle Technology Network
- 41. THANK YOU !!