People who really know me, realize that I don’t fall in love easily. Well, I do. But this time it’s different. Oracle released an impressively complete method to their Partners, called Oracle Unified Method.
There are a lot of methods in the world of Software Development, Project Management, Life Cycle Management and Enterprise Architecture. Most of them combine some ‘best-practices’ and are set up pretty general in order to make sense in a wide variety of projects. Those methods rarely combine different approaches to the Enterprise Information Technology Lifecycle. The Oracle Unified Method is a bit different, it combines Agile Principle and best-practices (on different subjects like Project Management, Life Cycle Management and Enterprise Architecture) with the real know-how on the complete Oracle Stack.
Organizations working with a wide variety of Oracle products, such as the SOA Suite, Database but also the complete Applications stack, really need the use of Oracle Unified Method (OUM) for their IT Strategy and IT Lifecycle. This framework offers a complete set of tools and practices that make managing a lot easier.
But it doesn’t end there. OUM is adaptive. And, as I see it, it can be changed and implemented in a wide variety of ways. It offers us the complete cycle in any Agile project and is based upon the Unified Process and DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method). In this way we can manage and steer our projects in a lean way. Just get the elements in the very complete OUM stack that you actually need. As the OUM is completely focused on business results and steers on agility it is said to be highly adaptive and manageable.
Soon, I will talk a little bit more on the exact ‘how’ Oracle Unified Method will help us deliver Agile Projects, based on the Oracle Stack.
