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Process Improvement Helps you
Grow your Business
As-One Enterprise
includes standard process documentation, checklists and
templates for tailoring based on SEI CMM Level 3 and allows
an organization to define its own standards while
seamlessly distributing the information to the targeted team
members. With As-One, you improve your process maturity by
providing and maintaining process information, best
practices, and lessons learned in the appropriate context
for your project teams.
As-One is meant to be used to perform everyday project
activities. Using As-One as your central project and
organizational tool will help guarantee that your
organization is performing at CMM Levels 2 and 3. All of the
objective evidence needed for certification is logically and
centrally captured in real-time through everyday events.
As-One also facilitates re-use. Historical data and project
documentation can be used for future project planning,
estimation, and implementation. Metrics are automatically
generated for use in project comparisons and quantitative
process analysis.
What As-One addresses in the market place:
Process improvement impacts the maturity of your
organization's product development capabilities. The more
mature your organization functions and appears to third
parties, the easier it is to grow your business. The higher
your maturity, the better your schedule and cost
performance, the lower your risk, and the less you must rely
on individuals to carry you through difficult times. You
stress your team and your physical assets less by having
better process.
Controversy exists around the efficacy of a canned approach
to process improvement. Some experts disagree that you can
simply buy and deploy processes without modification. We
believe that there are benefits from having structure to start
with. As-One solutions that integrates total project
management, along with a searchable knowledge library, and a
complete set of easy-to-tailor processes provide the most
effective framework for immediate and long-term improvement.
Many process and project management advocates struggle to
get buy-in from their senior management. While there is
proven value in managing projects with better process, not
every managers see the applicability to the projects under
their jurisdiction. The best way to get approval is to
show the importance and the benefits with pilot projects
that perform better and require less supervision. Once
senior management sees the improved project performance on
the pilot projects, they can see the applicability and the
benefits.
As-One provides a total project
management solution along with a framework for
process improvement "out of the box". The standard
processes, checklists, and templates based on SEI SW-CMM
Level 3 are provided with our Enterprise product and
allow organizations to tailor their processes to the SW-CMM.
As-One allows your team to be active in the use and
maintenance of the process, even providing a market
environment where it will be clear which processes are
used and which are getting outdated. If the organization
already has the established standards and processes in
place, As-One can handle that also. |
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As-One allows organizations to
define standards (regardless of the project type)
and seamlessly distribute the information to the
targeted team members. |
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As-One knowledge management
component allows organizations to provide process
information in-context. New or updated process standards
are automatically distributed to personnel based on the
project type, project phase, and the person's labor
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As-One allows the sharing of
best practices and lessons learned across related
projects throughout the entire organization.
As-One has a built in workflow process to allow
authorized groups to review and approve suggested
process updates and best practices prior to distribution
throughout the organization. |
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As-one supports strategic
Industry standards available for process improvement
and quality assurance include ISO 9001, and the Software
Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model
(CMM). Continuous process improvement is based on many
small, evolutionary steps rather than revolutionary
innovations . As such, the SEI SW-CMM provides an
excellent foundation for a software process improvement
program (although ISO 9001 has also been proven). The
SW-CMM provides a framework for organizing the
evolutionary steps into five maturity levels; initial,
repeatable, defined, managed, and optimized. In
addition, the SW-CMM is often required by Federal
agencies and the Department of Defense. The SEI provides
reports, technical papers, and annual meetings. There is
extensive consulting support available, and a there is a
formal industry assessment method and formal government
evaluation method. |
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As-One captures day-to-day
project management and engineering activities. Just
using As -One as your central project and organizational
tool in accordance with our SW-CMM processes will
guarantee your organization is performing at CMM Levels
2 and 3. A certification team will only have one place
to look for the objective evidence, because it is
logically and centrally captured in real-time through
everyday events. |
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As-One facilitates the re-use of
past project successes. Research is made easy.
Project documentation from previous projects can be
tailored for new projects. Historical data can be used
for future planning and estimation. Automatically
generated metrics can be used for project comparisons
and quantitative process analysis. |
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As-One leads and motivates the
organization to manage both vision and their
process, while allowing them to repeat
successes and learn from failures. Through continued
process improvement, the organization will continue
to improve the quality of the products and services
provided to its customers. |
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