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The HERMES Method

HERMES is a method of managing, developing and executing projects in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

 

The advantages of HERMES

HERMES describes a concrete process using a phase based model, specifies for each phase the required results and the specific roles. HERMES improves transparency, eases planning and execution of projects. 


The phase model

  • To enforce a well structured project, HERMES divides the whole process in 6 phases: Initialisation, Pre-analysis, Concept, Realisation, Deployment, Finalisation.
  • The project phases orientate themselves around the results to be created and around the decision-making points of a phase to emerge from them, where the results of every phase run together.


Two project types

HERMES distinguishes two types of projects:
  • System development for solution implementation from scratch;
  • System adaptation for purchased solutions.

The phase model is different for each project type.


Submodels for the transverse functions

The transverse fonctions and processes are described in the form of submodels. They are the same independently of the project type. They apply to most Information and Communication Technologies projects :
  • project management
  • quality assurance
  • risk management
  • configuration management
  • project marketing.

 


Three views

In a project, the agreed upon results must be produced, the process must be evident and the roles have to be lived. For these reasons, a HERMES project is considered from three perspectives (views):
  • View to procedures: How is the work performed ?
  • View to the obtained results: What is produced ?
  • View to the various roles: Who is doing what ?
Specialist Staff: hermes@isb.admin.ch
Last update:  16.03.2009