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Dominik Malzacher, Movyn John, Anita Gu, Cille Schliebitz

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31 Jan 2025

Overview

Learn about the typical phases in delivering Fluent OMS projects from Discovery to 'Go Live'.

Key points

Comprehensive Discovery: Ensure thorough gathering of business requirements and precise backlog generation to set a solid foundation for the project.
Robust Testing: Conduct System Integration Testing (SIT), Performance Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate all aspects of the solution.
Client Involvement: Engage clients early, especially before UAT, to familiarize them with the user interfaces and gather their feedback.
Successful Launch: Execute a meticulous production deployment, including data staging and validation testing, to ensure a smooth 'go live' transition.

Typical Project Lifecycle

At a high level, a typical project lifecycle consists of discovery and solution design, implementation, testing and launch. An example project timeline showing the different phases is shown below.

Discovery is the initial phase of the project. This phase involves gathering business requirements, generating the backlog, and updating project estimates and schedules.
Implementation covers configuration, development and testing phases.
System Integration Testing (SIT) is used to test individual integrations between systems (i.e. end-to-end). Performance Testing is used to confirm the peak volumes for orders and inventory loads.
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is where the business signs off on the end-to-end business scenarios and reporting. Typically, the client is onboarded just before UAT, so they can effectively use the web apps (Fluent OMS and Fluent Store) user interfaces during testing.
Launch and 'go live' carry out the production deployment, data staging and validation testing phases of the project lifecycle

Preferred approach

We recommend taking the waterfall approach during the discovery, including solution design. A shift toward agile with sprints should occur when project implementation begins. We also highly recommend keeping the initial phase as short as possible, so we encourage you to define a minimal viable product (MVP) scope.

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Project Roles and Responsibilities

Project Estimation

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Fluent OMS Project Phases

Fluent OMS Project Phases

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