Project Management Solution

Digite ALM on SaaS: Project Management Solution

Planning, managing and executing projects is a reality in any organization today. Typical PM tools are great at project planning, but provide very little support for project execution, be it tracking all aspects of work on project or letting you monitor both planned and unplanned work. While the Project WBS is a great place to start a project, a lot of the work gets tracked through email and spreadsheet which can easily be overlooked when measuring the overall project status and cost.

If you are looking for a simple yet 'standardized' way to manage any kind of a project, Digité's Project Management solution is for you. Digité's Project Management solution combines the best of Digité's experience with its customers, their best practices and standards, as well as principles of standardized frameworks such as PM-BoK and CMMI. At the same time, it combines functionality that enable both easy Project Planning/ Management as well as effective Project Execution and Monitoring.

Digité's Project Management solution is a "best of both worlds" solution for organizations who want to follow and implement standard yet simple project management methods, as well as for the top management, which needs a consolidated view of all projects, without spending a fortune on disparate tools.
Digite Value Proposition

The Project Management solution from Digite combines a standard, codified but configurable project WBS, standardized workflows for typical activities such as risk management and document reviews, a fully pre-configured project dashboard that provides metrics ranging from Earned Value to Status Reports on various project aspects as well as composite Project Health metrics.

• Standard, configurable, project Work Breakdown Structure
• Choice of using standard MS Project integration or Digité's native scheduler - STaRT (Simple Task and Resource Tracking)
• Integrated Timesheet feature with auto-update to MS Project/ STaRT
• Full-fledged resource management and allocation features, along with skill based search
• Integrated project execution tools, with built in collaboration and workflow processes:
  • Issues Management
  • Action Items
  • Documents Management
  • Risk Management

• Collaboration through Project Wiki, Discussion Forums and Meeting Manager
• Comprehensive Search through project data and documents

Key Features of Digite Project Management Solution

Project Management Modules

• Project creation using the Project Management solution template
• Choice of using MS Project or STaRT for scheduling
• Standard workflow associated with each module along with user friendly views and filters
• PM processes that can be managed within SMB solution include: Action Items, Issues, Change Requests, Documents, Risks and Release

Task Tracking & Progress Reporting

• A standard set of phases and associated activities to be performed for overall management of the project packaged within the solution defines the project tasks

• Team members can update the progress on the tasks on a daily basis by reporting either '% Complete' or 'Remaining Effort', along with the 'Actual Effort' spent on the task. Digite automatically recomputes the task duration and its overall impact on the project

Project Execution/ Monitoring

• Do away completely with spreadsheet and email! Track all project work such as issues, risks and action items in a single repository
• Universal Inbox that provides a single view of all tasks across all projects to your team members
• Integrated document management lets you store, review and search through all project documents in a unified manner. No more searching for the latest version of a document!

Team Collaboration

• Integrated threaded Discussion Forums to discuss project issues/impediments.
• Project Wiki (Beta) to collaborate or exchange information on various topics.
• Project meetings management, minutes of meetings and action items.

Pre-configured Dashboards

Digite SaaS Solutions provide one of the most extensive set of metrics and reports, fully configured for immediate use.

• Reports
  • Traceability Report
  • Tasks Scorecard
  • Change Management Scorecard
  • Weekly Status Repo

• Charts
  • Project Health Component
  • Resource Loading
  • Effort and Schedule Deviation
  • Cost of Quality
  • SLA Mean time / SLA % compliance
  • Defect Status / Defect Leakage
  • Issues and Risks Status - By Category/ Priority/ Overall Status