Change Management Tools
Need change management tools for an
information management project and want
practical suggestions to ensure rapid project delivery?
Change management tools include all of the software and associated
tools required to support an information management software
development project.
Change management
requires:
 Change management methodology;
Change management process;
Project templates;
Project scheduling tools;
Project estimating tools, to support
accurate
estimating;
Project collaboration tools to ensure
effective
communications among team members; and
Document management and storage
repositories.
Requirements
management requires:
Software tools to create and manage
requirements; and
Some mechanism to trace requirements
thru
design, development and testing.
Data
modeling
requires:
Tools to create and manage conceptual,
logical
and physical data modeling tasks;
Repositories to store data models;
The capability to create database data
definition language; and
The capability to compare physical
data models
with database schema.
Data
analysis
requires:
Data profiling software; and
Data quality tools.
Database
software requires
Relational database management software
(RDBMS) and data management tools capable of:
Storing large data volumes; and
Security software tools to protect data
Database
development tools require
database development software with the ability to support database
developers creating and maintaining database procedures.
Data
movement
(ETL) software tools require:
Data
integration software tools to schedule the extraction of data from
source systems and transforming and loading it into appropriate staging
areas, data warehouses and data marts; and
Repositories to store ETL software and
common
routines.
Master data
management tools requires
software
Capable of moving master (reference)
data from
systems of record to other systems which may need it; and
Synchronizing all data between
systems
as required.
Business
intelligence tools requires software applications capable
of supporting:
Business intelligence solution deign;
Analytic business intelligence use;
Business intelligence reporting; and
Decision support requirements.
Quality
assurance requires software-testing tools capable of
supporting:
The creation of test cases and scripts;
The initiation of software testing; and
Defect management and reporting.
Metadata
management requires tools capable of supporting the
storing, maintaining, accessing and management of business and
technical metadata.
Configuration
management requires
tools capable of:
Supporting a configuration management
database
so that the impact of change can be quickly determined; and
Software
management to ensure that production release process moves the correct
software versions into production and/or can “back-out” appropriate
software in the event of some form of failure.
Search tools require
software capable of providing project team members with a
“search
it” tool so
they can quickly find relevant project
documentation or
information as required.
Change Management
considerations
One
of the key change management tasks is to ensure that all of these
tools are available for team members and that appropriate licenses are
purchased in a timely manner to prevent delays.
Ensure that any tools used on a project conform to the information
management framework approved technology standards list.
Summary...
Change management tools include all of the software
and associated tools
required to support an information management software development
project. It is imperative that these tools are available when required
and that change project team members are experienced with their use or
have
appropriate training.
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