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System Configuration and Build

Alpha Financials is using a Hybrid Agile delivery approach for requirements, design, development and testing. Beginning in October 2019, there will be multiple functional and technical development cycles (sprints) during which functionality is built for UC Merced’s system. Each sprint begins with detailed requirements gathering and ends in a demonstration of a completed object or feature during the sprint review. Alpha Financials is configuring the following Cloud Financial modules for UC Merced: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Grants Management, Contracts, Project Portfolio Management, Collections, Purchasing, Fixed Assets, and Planning and Budgeting.

The project will perform detailed process design on all modules ahead of entering into sprint cycles. Our approach to detailed process design heavily depends on our Finance team and their deep understanding of UC Merced’s mission and unique campus considerations. The team is also reaching out to subject matter experts from across campus to inform the Oracle modules’ functionality and to ensure campus reporting needs are integrated in the design. Within each sprint, the team will validate requirements elicited, complete design, build and test specific elements of functionality. Separate testing activities will be used to execute pre-integration and regression testing cycles (when sprints are complete and functionality and business processes can be tested as a whole).

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