IBM SG24-7645-00 manual Project Planning, 7645ProjPlan.fm

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Chapter 3. Project Planning

This chapter describes various parameters that should be considered in planning an implementation right from technical options in terms of database, application server and operating system to required skills. A Maximo Asset Management Essentials implementation is assumed to be simpler and less time consuming than an enterprise wide implementation. The underlying assumption in this chapter is a basic implementation with out of box components for middleware, database and so on. After reading this chapter, the implementation team should be able to create a high level project plan with ballpark effort and time estimates for a typical implementation.

We have not created an implementation plan which fits for each implementation since all of them are different. Each customer is unique and the requirement set of each customer differs. However, for the purpose of this chapter and to maintain simplicity as Essentials is not supposed to be as complex as a Maximo enterprise implementation, the following parameters have been taken into consideration:

￿Infrastructure Selected

–Operating System - Windows®

–Database - DB2®

–Application Server - WebSphere

￿No integration with other third party systems

￿Existing data sets for data migration

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