Information Systems Transformation

Chapter 9. Federal Agency Case Study - Role of Modernization in a Greenfield Replacement/COTS Project

Contents

• The Plan 224
• Project Phase One — Initial Assessment: Enterprise Assessment 227
• Project Phase One — Initial Assessment: Detailed Assessment 233
• Project Phase Two — Detailed Assessment 241
• Project Phase Two — Transition Plan and Deployment 244
• Lessons Learned 245
• Summary 246

ABSTRACT

Richard Nixon was in the White House, Watergate had yet to hit the headlines, and the war in Vietnam was still a reality when a group of university graduates set out to build a financial system for an agency of the U.S. Federal Government (“Agency”). That system became the financial system of record for the Agency and continues to run to this day, performing ...