The four to seven week plan turned into an actual elapsed time for the project of 20 weeks. The timeline broke down as follows:
Weeks of July 19 and July 26 — Completed functional and technical specifications
Weeks of July 26 through October 4 — Created all the adapters and exposed them as web services
Weeks of October 4 through November 19 — BPEL orchestration, testing of end-to-end BPEL processing and fixing issues
November 19 — Demo to Oracle team and insurance company middle level managers
November 23 — Presentation and demo to IT leadership at the insurance company
The resources required and the actual hours required from each resource were as follows:
Resource type |
Time effort |
Explanation for additional effort |
---|---|---|
Oracle SOA Suite and BPEL Process Manager |
160 hours |
Interacting legacy web services and MQSeries much more time-consuming then originally thought. |
Oracle Legacy Studio and Oracle Connect |
120 hours |
Three installations of Oracle Connect were... |