Administering Cloud EPM: The Platform Beneath the Business Processes · Module 17 · The EPM Center of Excellence
Lab: assess the capability and write the one-page proposal
Lesson 195 of 201 · 2 min
An hour, and the last deliverable is one page. Eight of them. A completed capability assessment for Northwind against the Lesson 3 inventory: current state, owner, gap, priority. A proposed CoE structure: roles as functions, who holds each, DEPUTIES NAMED. A single-point-of-failure analysis, with the risks stated in BUSINESS terms. A standards list naming every artifact the CoE would own, with reference to where in this course each was built. A change control minimum: what requires approval, from whom. An operating model: intake, prioritization, cadence, the line with functional owners. A ONE-PAGE PROPOSAL TO NORTHWIND'S CFO, USING THE MEASURED RECOVERY TIME FROM MODULE 12 AS THE LEAD ARGUMENT. And a set of adoption measures the CoE would report quarterly. The acceptance criteria. The assessment identifies SPECIFIC gaps, not general weakness. Every role has a deputy. The single-point-of-failure analysis is in business terms, not technical ones. Every standard traces to an…
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In this module: Module 17 · The EPM Center of Excellence
- 1Why the last module and not the first
- 2What a Center of Excellence is
- 3The capability inventory
- 4Staffing and roles
- 5Standards and governance
- 6The operating model
- 7Making the case
- 8What breaks
- 9Lab: assess the capability and write the one-page proposal