








South African Revenue Services
www.sars.gov.za
Industry: Financial Services / Government
SARS Project
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Company / Client: SARS (South African Revenue Services)
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Project Name: IBM® Rational® Deployment
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Year Started & Project Duration: 2003; 24 Months
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Project Purpose / Goal: Providing SARS (Government Organisation) with an enterprise-wide solution enabling them to deliver early and frequent value across all their projects by embedding an incremental-iterative project delivery approach, underpinned by the IBM® Rational® Toolset
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My Role/s – This Project: Project Manager, Agile Coach & IBM Rational Toolsmith
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Project Budget: ZAR 4M
Client Achievements
Frameworks + Methodologies & Project Management Consultant:
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Successfully established a SDLC framework for the application development and operational departments – fully supported by the required templates in an EPMO scheduling tool (Microsoft EPM / Project Server).
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Successfully completed a knowledge transfer program to all business analysts for doing business modelling with UML and Erikson-Penker extensions.
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Tailored the software development process framework of the organization to match the specific needs of their various types of projects, using IBM® RUP® as basis
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Educated and mentored project members on best practices for software development – specifically focusing on agile principles and practices
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Ensured that, through quantitative measurement, valuable project experience was harvested and fed back into the software development process followed by a number of projects and programs
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Mentored client resources on aspects of configuration management, change management and business analysis
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Formally trained and mentored client resources in business modelling with UML
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Performed IBM® Rational® toolsmithing
Referrals
"Andre is passionately consistent at methodology utilization to achieve business project objectives at every level of the project. He demonstrated such a passion in the Revenue and customs business modeling projects we successfully executed for SARS."