Our Plan, Part VII
What will we be doing when we start? The Preliminary Specification is a vision, a framework, a functioning business model. It’s defining characteristic is that it works. Many ideas run into difficulties when this or that is introduced which causes the model to break down. During the ten years of research I discovered those many areas that didn’t work and resolved them. The first thing we will be doing in development from September onward is expand on this business model and fill in the various processes and methods that the industry will actually operate. The details of how the industry works, based on the vision of the Preliminary Specification. This is why user community developments are such a critical aspect of usable software. If your area of expertise was in gas plant management and knew of the ways and means of how those operated from an accounting and administrative point of view then your skills would be needed in our user community in defining those elements in the software.
Our first deliverable will be an expansion of the Preliminary Specification in textual form. What our software development teams will be based upon is the “agile” software development methodology. Under which the key deliverable from the user community to the software developers is what is called the “user story” and is defined here. Initially these will be “epic” stories and need to be decomposed further down the road. Which of course we will do.
People, Ideas & Objects will begin assembling a software development team and capability on September 4, 2017. This will support the user community and enable them to collaborate and communicate in a preliminary manner. This will sort out some of the initial issues of setting up our environment. At the same time the user community will have access to an Oracle simulation that we will build that is a fully functioning cloud computing environment that consists of the Oracle Fusion Middleware and Applications that are the foundation of their applications. That way the user community will understand the environment they’re building their software within. And this environment will, over time, iteratively reflect the software developments that are the product of the user community and software developers efforts.
We will be talking about the role of product owners in the near future. The point I want to make now is that the user community will assemble somewhat around the Preliminary Specifications modules where their expertise exists. In addition, we will have other teams involved in other aspects of the development outside of oil and gas, and the Preliminary Specifications modules. Areas such as the data models that we will use and the user interface throughout the application. One of these areas that I would ask that we begin to gain some ground on quickly is in the area of just raw data. Consisting of the types of data that exist in the industry and bulk samples of that data so that we could run it through our Oracle simulation.
Note that I’ve not stated anything at this point about real estate. All of this work will initially be done virtually until such time as we have the opportunity to settle in our own location, based on People, Ideas & Objects and the user communities needs. The mindset of the user community will always be virtual. Never constrained by any physical or logistical issues. In the long run this will enable a capability in terms of speed that will be breathtaking.
The Preliminary Specification, our user community and service providers provide the dynamic, innovative, accountable and profitable oil and gas producer with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. Setting the foundation for North America’s energy independence. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here.