| Features Closely Manage Relationships Real-time dashboards help you monitor, manage and measure the critical factors impacting your application development process. Key dashboard services include: Project Health Executives and other stakeholders can evaluate project performance at-a-glance and instantly know what issues need to be addressed. This portfolio view grades success indicators like quality, change requests; cost and schedule variance; team assessments; and project financials like budget and profitability. To gain a more measurable view into these indicators - and how they fare against team goals or Service Level Agreements (SLAs) - we provide tangible metrics for each, and let you drill into them to discover what's affecting their performances: Cost and Schedule Variance: Real-time benchmarks measure performance against projected schedules and budgets. Requirements Traceability: Monitor how product requirements are being completed throughout the delivery process. Quality: Evaluate the success of each test cycle throughout a project. Upcoming Milestones: Instantly correlate project progress with scheduled milestones. Productivity: Track how effectively issues, changes, requirements, and other project deliverables are being resolved and how fast and accurate these tasks are being completed. Changes: Check the status and projected financial impact of change requests. Resource Utilization: Analyze resource availability being allocated across a single project or multiple projects being performed on the Artifact Network. Assessments: Project managers, clients and team members can provide a layer of insight into these metrics by ranking, and commenting on, their satisfaction with core issues affecting their project's delivery. View enterprise dashboard screenshot (opens new window). View service provider dashboard screenshot (opens new window).
Proactively Manage Project Performance Our integrated set of project management and application life-cycle tools let you view and manage granular elements impacting the software delivery process. You can proactively deliver requirements as planned, ensure budgets and schedules stay on target, track and resolve changes and defects, and identify the right resources at the right time. Some of the integrated services you'll find include: Project Management: Empower project managers to keep projects on course - delivery dates, scope and budget - and their clients/users satisfied. With Artifact, project managers can manage milestones, SLA baselines, project and sub-project plans, tasks and resources. And the Microsoft Project import/export service enables you to get started quickly, and continue using Microsoft Project to manage tasks and milestones. View screenshot (opens new window). Resource Management: Manage and assign resources, track skill sets, and evaluate performance and satisfaction ratings. View screenshot (opens new window). Time Recording: Capture time to automatically update project plans, update billing systems, or track total project costs to estimates. View screenshot (opens new window). Document Management: Manage project documents in a central repository, including check-in/check-out, version control, and track changes. Based on Artifact's CodeShareTM product, link documents to requirements, defects, and test plans to ensure that all project data stays in sync. View screenshot (opens new window). Requirements Management and Traceability: Record and analyze requirements and trace their progress throughout the project to ensure they're being delivered as planned. The workflow engine notifies relevant team members and stakeholders of requirements that are changed, approved, or remain outstanding, helping head off issues before they affect your project's success. View screenshot (opens new window). Issue Tracking and Defect Tracking: Successfully manage the lifecycle of each issue and defect to its resolution. You can even get a head start by importing issues and defects from an existing project. View issue tracking screenshot - view defect tracking screenshot (opens new window). Change Management: Keep expectations in-line by managing and monitoring each stage of a change request, including cost tracking, schedule impact and the approval process. View screenshot (opens new window). Test Management: Manage each stage of the testing process to ensure quality, report progress, and correlate test results to defects and completed requirements. View screenshot (opens new window). So if you're interested in deploying these project management and monitoring solutions, and discovering how it can help you get started on building a successful global application delivery process you can: Take the next step: |