Implementing 3DEXPERIENCE starts with a credible and holistic roadmap, considering associated interdependencies across PLM, ERP, MES and other domains, covering processes / data / people and platforms flows across the enterprise. A robust detailed implementation plan and execution framework are essential to ensure delivery success for organizations in “delivering value from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform”.
Based on scope and complexity, an upfront blueprint exercise might be required to perform the required risk assessments, define mitigation actions, workarounds and countermeasures, and validate the implementation budget envelope. This is an essential step to validate both business and technical assumptions, but also to drive the relevant business transformation and commercial mitigations.
PLM implementations are often referred as “discovery journeys” since detailed requirements can be identified late or as part of hand—on experimentations; hence the need to select the relevant agile or waterfall approach.
Implementing enterprise processes and tools to enable the development of quality products, and bringing them faster to market
Driving the PLM implementation to-plan, on-quality and to-budget, with open and transparent change management
Managing complexity while driving business transformation and technical complexity, from data migration to enterprise integration
Building trusted advisory relationships with stakeholders at all levels, from key-users to C-level, and across technical and support teams
Performing pragmatic discoveries and blueprint assessments, keeping the big picture in mind and planning accordingly
Managing business benefit realization throughout delivery, tracking potential implications to end-user experience and future cost of ownership
Capturing and decomposing business requirements into exhaustive functional and non-functional, aligning initial storyboard and use case interpretations with detailed technical and business change requirements
Understanding how the business operates, across multiple stakeholders, the modus operandi, associated processes, data flows, manual and automated interfaces across functions and enterprise platforms
Mapping and defining detailed business processes and associated methods; building and expanding on storyboard and high-level workflows with the required level of detail to drive low-level use cases and method implementation in 3DEXPERIENCE
Interpreting business requirements and use cases into solution high-level design and documenting the detailed design specifications to implement and test every module and solution element required to ensure the business requirements are met
Experimenting implementation ideas or workarounds in order to assess feasibility and integrity; building solution prototypes, with technical and / or paper studies, driving risk mitigation assessment and providing recommendations for next steps
Planning, designing and building platform configurations and system augmentations based on requirement trade-offs, governing non-invasive customizations, using approved APIs and connectors, aligning the platform authority of Dassault Systèmes
Building the relevant approach to change, release, migrate data or upgrade an application, platform or set of technical interfaces; drive business and technical interferences into a holistic strategy, including service transition to operations
Selecting delivery and engagement models within the boundaries of the agreed scope and commercial model; driving phased and / or iterative implementation steps or sprint, leveraging either waterfall or agile / scrum / SAFe methodologies
Building a body of knowledge to support both end-user and IT support functions in implementing, maintaining and educating the required functions; ensuring effective and consistent user education across the enterprise and supply chain
