Objective
The interest of CECA, as the Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks, in this PIE lies in the development of its business strategy: to act as the sponsor of technological development and test site for new technologies for its 50 associated Savings Banks.
The objective of the project is to implement an organisational structure and a method to handle global changes to a complete software portfolio.
At present, Savings Banks (as well as a large number of other organisations) are facing critical global changes to face the year 2000 problem and to make themselves capable of handling the Euro single currency.
We will use these critical global changes as the baseline project to test the method by using it to adapt the applications of the payments area, the resulting method will then be used to adapt CECA's complete software portfolio and will be disseminated to its 50 associated Savings Banks.
THE EXPERIMENT
The PIE will consist of:
The implementation of an organisational structure that will be based on: The Euro2000 Steering Committee, The Euro2000 team, The adaptation teams and the Users team.
The implementation of a Method based on the following phases: 1) Applications Architecture Definition; 2) Planning and Prioritisation; 3) Change Management Set-up; 4) Detailed Situation Analysis and Solution Design; 5) Solution Implementation; 6) Test and Quality Analysis.
These organisational structure and method will be used to make the applications of the payments area capable of handling the Euro and be free of the year 2000 problem.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks, CECA, expects to obtain the following benefits from the process implemented trough this experiment:
Ensure that all its portfolio of applications is prepared to handle the Euro currency and year 2000 dates by 1999
Ensure that the best business sense and cost effective solution is taken for each application.
Guarantee that the conversion process will not cause problems to the applications in production.
Reduce risks of failure by ensuring that 98% of the required conversions are performed, tested and accepted by its business users.
Increase the productivity form the present level of 2 programs of 2.5000 lines corrected per day to 8 programs of the same size corrected per day.
Eliminate the person-application dependency which in-turn will increased the flexibility to use contracted programmers to speed up the work.
Decrease cost by reducing the labour for detecting potentially troubled situations by 70%.
Raise awareness and guarantee involvement from the senior management and business users in the resolution of this two critical problems.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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28028 Madrid
Spain