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This is a lightweight getting started guide for our team while formalized training material is being developed. |
How to Start Creating Your OTL
Object List and Task Outline
Start with a list of your objects. When you believe you've captured all your deliverables, start an outline to elaborate your tasks. Include the whole SDLC for development tasks. Formal testing planning would be a set of its own objects. Concurrently or after, build your milestone list. Below is an example of the objects (deliverables) and a task outline for the migration project itself. I started with the object list and its types and through collaboration with the team we talked through the tasks. This provided a good starting point for the detailed tasks in the OTL template itself where things became more clear, estimated, adjusted, and scheduled. We included the red PMO touchpoints here because I used this later in the task descriptions to call out the parties involved.
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| Object | Object Type | Tasks |
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| FIS Migration Plan | Project Plan |
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| Methodology Training Session | Training Session |
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| Ontology Training Session | Training Session |
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| JIRA OTL Training Session | Training Session |
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| Professional SCRUM Training | Training Session |
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| Project OTLs+ | Project Plan |
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| Retrospective | Closeout Document |
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| Project OTLs+ | Project Plan |
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| Retrospective | Closeout Document |
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Milestones
Milestones come out of your communication plan. What do you need to tell your stakeholders? You might want to have things like kickoff, final delivery, but during planning you might have a major go / no go decision point. Maybe you want to communicate when certain modules are ready. Below is an example of the milestones for the migration project itself.
| Milestone | Date |
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| Projects & Leads Identified and Methodology Selected | 3/17/2017 |
| Estimated Project Schedule | 4/9/2017 |
| Leads Start OTL Development | 4/110/2017 |
| FIS Schedule Finalized | 4/25/2017 |
| FIS Engine Started | 6/2/2017 (ballpark estimated) |
The Full OTL Template
The following is an example of the 3 types of rows you will find useful in generating your OTL.
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