The Project Management Process

Agile project management is the preferred approach at Evozon. We focus on features rather than project tasks and do the planning incrementally, while exploring the vision of what the project is meant to do. The customer constantly influences the project management process with inputs on all the issues of importance, such as the feature under development, evolving visions of the end product, the requirements for the next stage of development, risk management, milestones, budget control, etc.

The project environment, the interfacing between the project and its environment, roles and responsibilities, the core facilities for the project, assumptions, dependencies and constraints, contingency planning and the technical process are carefully addressed by project architects and managers.

Issue trackers like JIRA, Bugzilla and GForge are used throughout the project for planning, monitoring and control.

Conference calls and meetings between the project owner(s) and the customer are planned frequently to address the most pressing project management issues.

Project Management also addresses the change management issue to ensure that changes are carried out in a controlled way. The project manager is responsible for change management.

Change Management is based on a generic process irrespective of the nature and scope of the change. The very same principles are used if there is a need to change a management system process or an approved project plan or approved requirements.

The phases of the change management process are:

• Receiving and recording the change request. Request may be submitted by a customer or it may be submitted internally. Depending on the situation, there may be a dedicated form for requests.
• Analysing and recording the consequences of accepting and/or rejecting the change.
• Decision making and recording the decision and justification. Check who has the authority to make the decision.
• Implementing the change and record the actions taken.
• Tracking the status of change requests to closure.

The details of the process may vary depending on the scope, but the phases and the requirement of keeping records during the process and of keeping stakeholders informed are always there.

 

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