Process and project management

Project managers need to set priorities to the project investments and to put an exact estimation, to plan and manage resources. IBM provides exhaustive possibilities of processes management offering tools which provide a project life cycle management, repeatedly used processes with templates and guidance necessary for a project management and for providing the connection between development and operating activity, and tested methods of organizational transformations necessary for establishment of accordance between IT and business goals.

In organizations which work with projects, IT-departments' and project managers must provide permanent, forecast productive activity, determined by business-processes. The purpose is to obtain transparency in the projects with the aim of more rapid and exact decision-making. IBM Rational Portfolio Manager, newest product of IBM Rational family, unites procedures of vertical analysis «up and down» with procedures of project management, being based on principle «down-up». Using IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform and Rational Suite decisions for the application life cycle management, you will get complete conception about all IT-projects, that will provide a decision-making on the basis of exact and objective information.

Failures in projects realization are often caused by insufficient understanding of terminology, processes and their aims. The use of the single concerted process provides necessary single terminology and clear descriptions of responsibilities. IBM Rational Unified Process®, or RUP®, is the configured platform, describing a software development process, based on the most successful examples of development and taking into account the specific necessities of your project. Comprehensive IT-methods and planning and estimation facilities of IBM® Rational SUMMIT® Ascendant® complement confessedly guidance of RUP and provide development of high-quality software.

For realization of the single concerted process the IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform provides with integrated tools, necessary for more effective realization of team's joint activity. IBM Rational Suite is a full functional solution, including possibilities of Team Unifying Platform and facilities of visual design, code generation and analysis of application performance.

Not depending on the project type, this solution will more effectively support planning, managing and estimating the results of projects in area of IT and application development in the scales of enterprise.