The Production Accounting System (PAS) Project is a co-venture with Devon Canada, EnCana, Husky Energy, Talisman Energy, and CGI to build, maintain and enhance a single solution to be used by these companies, over the next 10 to 20 years. This solution is intended to increase efficiency, improve the quality of information by providing end users more time for data analysis and ultimately result in the ability to make better business decisions. The new system is being developed as an industry solution that will be available to other oil and gas companies that operate in Canada.

The development work is being carried out by a dedicated on-site team of 30+ professionals, including representatives of the four oil & gas companies, who provide the business expertise. The project began in October 2003 with a definition phase and the 2 year development phase began in April 2004. The application is being developed in a 3+ tier architecture based on J2EE standards, on an Oracle database, utilizing an Agile Development methodology. The governance of the project includes an Advisory Board which meets twice monthly to review progress and give strategic direction and a PMI standards based approach to reporting progress.

This presentation will focus on the challenges faced in applying PMI PMBOK principles to a project using Agile practices such as SCRUM and XP to develop the application.