One Project to Rule Them All

By Gábor Illés

Project managing a major ERP software upgrade project is a "once-in-a-lifetime" situation in many cases. It may take years or decades to get prepared for this achievement, and when it is done, PM's are often moving to other positions, letting the "young lions" to show off next time.

This major project happened to the author in 2016 and it was so different compared to any other earlier projects... So he decided to collect his thougths, impressions, lessons learned to save it for himself first, but also for those lions who will put the PM hat on in the future.

The book is an overview of the steps of a successful ERP software upgrade project with comments and recommendations, comparing approaches, methods, decisions that were working or were not, from project initiation to golive. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gábor Illés
• Release date: Jan 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201375027

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ONE PROJECT TO RULE THEM ALL

A Global Single Instance Project Story

By Gábor Illés

Debrecen

2017-2022

Copyright © Gábor Illés, 2022

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First edition: January 2022

To those great colleagues who made this large project happen.

Contents

Preface to the 1st edition

Intro

Project initiation

Project Planning

Leadership and Project Management

Project execution – JIRA

Documentation

Communication

Testing period

Exhausting. Sicknesses

Jira. Control.

Test case progress.

Reviewing the critical bug tickets regularly

Change control.

Resource leveling.

Communication of results.

Overtime at the weekend

Overtimes on workdays

Recharging the batteries vs working during vacation

Cutover Planning

Golive

Spaceship approach

Golive lessons learned

Epilogue

Preface to the 1st edition

5years ago, Christmas celebration was not as peaceful as in the previous years – day and night, my thoughts were around a project golive date that was less than a month away.

Since then, I have been planning to publish this little book. The reasons are simple: to share my story with co-workers, to give some advice to others who happen to get in the same shoes. But during the years my attention was always redirected. Till now, because I have decided to take the first step and publish my thoughts to the public finally. This is not a textbook nor an academic dissertation. A story with some lessons learned. Enjoy.

Debrecen, 18 December 2021

Intro

January 12, 2017. The day when we performed the business verification of the mock golive of the biggest system upgrade project of Bold Eagle Corporation [1] – on 3 continents. To reach a maximum level of performance the mock golive execution did exclude any unnecessary waiting times – this way it was a huge continuous never stopping

Reviews for One Project to Rule Them All

[László Dobos · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very interesting read, would recommend for Project Managers (especially in the IT area).