Now with the project management tools concepts as well as the high level requirements of your
application defined in exercise 1 you are now asked to build a solution that can help your
company to achieve its data infrastructure strategy. As you can see in this table,
typically as a prime project manager or lead developer you will need to work with
the management team to confirm the enterprise strategy and business needs. Then you will partner
with operation department teams and managers to help your company to meet these business needs.
During this process some pain points can be identified and you will be asked to create
solutions to adjust those pain points. And finally you will need to find and use the
proper PI components to build the solution. In this exercise we've pre-filled the strategy
and business needs column so you can focus on the technology part using the real world example from
large energy companies. We will also provide you with the specific pain points that these companies
might be facing. Your task is to first think of a solution that may resolve the pain points,
then translate your solution into information about the project deliverable. And identify
the specific functionalities that you need to implement to the deliverable.
As mentioned in lesson one, one way to achieve the aforementioned business goals is to export
AF templates from the central AF server then import the templates to the satellite sites.
One technology advantage behind this export import method is that it will allow the
satellite AF servers to automatically pick up any new properties that are added. Today users
can selectively and manually reconcile AF template changes between the central
covering office AF server and remote satellite sites AF server using PI builder in Excel,
in order to keep track of object changes or deletions. However this manual method
can be very time-consuming and prone to human errors. It will be great to have an automatic
tool that allow users to maintain AF template changes in multiple remote satellite AF servers.
Now you have identified the pain points. We recommend you to pause the video here,
imagine you're a project manager and spend a few minutes to think
about what will be the deliverable and its key functionalities. Our
recommendation for you again is start small by building prototypes and don't try to boil
the ocean. Take the constraints on the scope, time and cost into consideration.
Once you're ready please move on to the answers.