Showing posts with label Roles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roles. Show all posts

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Product Owner - Position

The Agile / Scrum software development methodology has many predefined roles. The Product Owner is one of them, and Product Owners are a part of the Scrum team. People, Ideas & Objects will have many Product Owners. One for each of 20 possible Scrum teams. [Eleven defined modules of the Draft Specification, User-Interface, Architecture, Data model etc.]

Project Owners are "pigs" in the scrum world. Pigs, unlike Chickens, have everything invested at the breakfast table. An appropriate term in my opinion. Their job is simple, satisfy all stakeholder concerns. Working with the many Account Managers of producers and their users, the Community of Independent Service Providers, (CISP) and their Scrum Team members. Product Owners will be the individuals who magically prioritize the developments to meet the changing needs of the producers.

By adopting Oracle technologies People, Ideas & Objects inherits their entire technology stack. An Open yet integrated technology stack like no other. Making the Draft Specification and subsequent designs executable is no small task, we are grateful for the vision and execution of Oracle Hardware & Software. We are also constrained by those technologies, and it will be the Product Owners that feel those constraints the most.

By adopting Oracle we will have an advanced tool set and infrastructure to deal with. Our developers and particularly our Product Owners will have to be intimately familiar with Oracle technologies. This is the standard means of Oracle application delivery in the marketplace. There is a substantial marketplace of Oracle consultants available to People, Ideas & Objects and associated communities. In addition to the need to be familiar with the Oracle technology stack, Product Owners will need to be intimately familiar with the oil and gas industry, generic business needs and their "products". I'm just glad I already have a job at People, Ideas & Objects.

By way of a scenario, as the Product Owner of the Petroleum Lease Marketplace (PLM) Module a day might look similar to this... The Product Owner reviews a small sample of email messages, and prior days edits to the wiki. Edits and comments from the 500 Account Managers and 27,000 users who use the PLM. Account Managers are at times representative of the collective desires of these 27,000 users. These users have compiled a wish list of 1,000 user stories of what they need and want in the PLM software. Although daunting, the solutions to each can be represented by making 15 major changes in the PLM. The Product Owner has been blogging about these 15 proposed changes, for a number of weeks. These changes are also passionately felt by many of the members in the CISP. As always, major changes in the software can be brought into production with one two-week sprint. The Project Owner has recruited a representative group of users from 12 producers to work with the developers during that sprint. The Product Owner sets tomorrow for the team to begin these developments. Suddenly she realizes it's 7:30 in the morning and she has to get ready to catch a flight to Europe for the bi-annual People, Ideas & Objects user conference...

A little creative license is handy. If your an enlightened producer, an oil and gas investor or shareholder, who would be interested in funding these software developments and communities, please follow our Funding Policies & Procedures, and our Hardware Policies & Procedures. If your a government that collects royalties from oil and gas producers, and are concerned about the accuracy of your royalty income, please review our Royalty Policies & Procedures and email me. And if your a potential user of this software, and possibly as a member of the Community of Independent Service Providers, please join us here.

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Monday, February 01, 2010

Account Manager Position

The Account Manager Position is a senior position within the People, Ideas & Objects organization. Senior from the point of view of their understanding of the oil and gas industry, senior from the point of view of how well they understand the producer firm(s) they represent. Note that they are representing the producer firm and not a specific Joint Operating Committee. Ideally these individuals will be seconded to People, Ideas & Objects from the producer that they originated from.

Account Manager's are the conduit between the members of the Community of Independent Service Providers (CISP) and the users that are resident and employed at the producer firm or within a user community. If members of the CISP need clarification on a finer point of the producer's needs, they will contact the Account Manager for that producer who will secure the users necessary to clarify the point. Alternatively, a user who has an idea on how better to do their job can contact the Account Manager who will provide the CISP members and People, Ideas & Objects developers to be at the disposal of those users.

Users can and will be members of the producer firms, and not necessarily part of People, Ideas & Objects. User groups may be comprised of 100% of the producer firms staff. CISP resources are members of People, Ideas & Objects from the point of view that they have custody of the applications current and future software applications design. Starting with the Preliminary Specification and continuing on with tuning and delivering innovative People, Ideas & Objects software products to the industry.

Members of the CISP will source payment for their design and analysis work from People, Ideas & Objects directly. They will also bill the producer firms for the work they conduct at the producer firms on behalf of People, Ideas & Objects. Roles such as training, implementing and assisting the producer staff with the People, Ideas & Objects applications. Users will be compensated for their time in any and all activities by either the producer firms, as a member of the CISP or as a consultant outside of the CISP. People, Ideas & Objects will provide tools in which users can affiliate themselves and organize themselves in generic membership forums.

If your an enlightened producer, an oil and gas investor or shareholder, who would be interested in funding these software developments and communities, please follow our Funding Policies & Procedures, and our Hardware Policies & Procedures. If your a government that collects royalties from oil and gas producers, and are concerned about the accuracy of your royalty income, please review our Royalty Policies & Procedures and email me. And if your a potential user of this software, and possibly as a member of the Community of Independent Service Providers, please join us here.

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