V9 to V10 Migration in the Financial Markets

[epimazzo]

Hello everyone!

I'm in charge now for a project that has basically the responsibility to migrate Progress database from V9 to V10 with SQL and Oracle clients. This specific scenario is very common in this market and I came here to look for opinions that can light me up during this challenge. ;p
Scope is about 30 to 40 clients in the financial markets, all those basically investment banks whose need migrate their plataforms cause V9 is no more supported by Progress. What happens is that I really need the migration path cause the environment is critical, lots of interfaces and business products.

So, I appreciate any comments that help me out.

Thanks in advance.

Eduardo

 

[TomBascom]

Just a thought but if it's really that important you might want to hire an experienced consultant who actually knows how to do that sort of thing rather than picking up a few tips online...

 

[epimazzo]

Hi there Tom!

Well, I actually thought that a statement like this would come to mind soon....;p

If I do that, I'd pass the stick to someone else and then loose my chair.
I'm a project manager in IT field with expertise in infrastructure but I know that I have only apply my PM skills to get there....just need some initial tips!

Just a thought but if it's really that important you might want to hire an experienced consultant who actually knows how to do that sort of thing rather than picking up a few tips online...

 

[TomBascom]

That's my #1 tip.

Bring in someone who is experienced in the domain. That's what good PM's do. I've worked with good ones from time to time :awink:

 

[epimazzo]

Tom,

Getting advantage on your statement, how was your relation to the project team in terms of cost? I mean, directly or indirectly? How's PM dealed with that?

Just tell me how it worked...

That's my #1 tip.

Bring in someone who is experienced in the domain. That's what good PM's do. I've worked with good ones from time to time :awink:

 

[TomBascom]

Financial Services firms tend to be very structured and careful about these things.

In most cases the PM is probably about 50% allocated to the project. Occasionally 100%. Depending on the organization, the way they work and the specific goals of the project you'll have a lot of people from other departments involved too. Usually a DBA and/or a consultant, someone from the HW & OS side of things, possibly a SAN administrator, probably a programmer and several people from QA & testing. The allocations of these people vary considerably, again depending on the specific goals of the project.