How to be Successful with Essential

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Have an objective and a value outcome

• To be successful with Essential its important to define a realistic set of objectives to ensure that value is achieved quickly and then built on once embedded.
• The Essential Delivery Cycle outlines a set of steps that can be followed to ensure an objectives is achieved. It should be completed in an iterative fashion – each step is explained further and has supporting documentation and videos on the following pages
• It is important that each objective, or value drop is delivered with the maintenance method in place and the value measured before moving onto the next iteration
• Steps to ensure failure include:
  • Trying to do everything/too much at once
  • Capturing data just because you have it without a defined reason or a means of keeping it
    updated
  • Not setting up your viewer or portal with the views that are relevant to the user
    group

The Essential Delivery Cycle

Jump To

1. Identify Stakeholders and Concerns
2. Prioritise Delivery
3. Identify/Define the Views that will support Delivery
4. Identify any Meta Model extensions required and the impacts
5. Identify the data required, data sources, and population method
6. Plan Training/Consultancy
7. Extend Launchpad and build integrations and views as required
8. Complete Portal and Repository set-up
9. Capture data
10. Embed EA data management process to ensure data is maintained
11. Measure Value

Updated 21 November 2024

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