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Organizations face unprecedented challenges as they bring out new products or services to the market. Market uncertainty, collaborating in a multi site environment, shortened product life cycles and broader product and services portfolios are a few of those challenges. To successfully manage multiple projects, a systematic approach is needed to overcome these challenges and deliver relevant products and services.
GDE Project streamlines all the product development or service delivery processes like project planning, delivering, monitoring and reporting. It has been carefully engineered to handle iterative product development cycles and to foster collaboration in a virtual team setup.
 GDE Project is a customizable solution to suit the needs of different organizations. The module allows many different types of projects, such as services, research, support, and Phase-Gate, to be managed through standard and customized templates. It also will allow you to customize your flavors of 6-Sigma, Lean, etc.
Phase-Gate (Stage-Gate®) Process: GDE Project adopts the Phase -Gate Process, which is used in more than 75% of N.American companies to drive new products into the market. Checks and balances are built into the system that ensure product development risks are identified at the earliest and managed effectively.
SCRUM Methodology: Scope changes during the development stages are inevitable. Scope creep can be effectively managed using smaller but multiple iterations during development stage. GDE Project uses SCRUM methodology for all deliveries. This helps organizations adapt to the changing market requirements easily.
Stakeholder Management
GDE Project is based on ‘Push’ technology where the relevant information is pushed to the stakeholders through custom dashboards. Unlike generic project management solutions, GDE Project features can be leveraged by everybody involved in product development or service delivery and not just project managers.
The table below illustrates how GDE helps individual stakeholders in meeting business objectives:
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R&D Director
Portfolio Manager
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Portfolio Dashboard |
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Red Flag Report |
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SCRUM Report |
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Resource Visibility |
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Project Progress Report |
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Comprehensive view of all the ongoing projects, their |
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current status and also the health. |
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Prioritize the projects in the portfolio and take corrective actions for off-track projects at the earliest. |
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360 degree view of all the project activities on a daily basis. |
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| Project Manager |
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Plan |
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RASCII |
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Resource Visibility |
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SCRUM Report |
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Project Progress Report |
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Define the high level schedules, key milestones, build the right team. |
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Define the stakeholders, their roles/involvement and an elaborate stakeholder management strategy. |
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Monitor the project health on a daily basis. |
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Automated and simplified management reporting at the ‘Push’ of a button. |
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| Project Leader |
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Resource Visibility |
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Task (Plan – Assign) |
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SCRUM Report |
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Ensure all the resources are optimally utilized |
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Ensure project and resource visibility across stakeholders. |
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Plan and assign iterative tasks. Monitor the deliveries. |
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Simplified management reporting. |
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| Team Member |
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Task (Deliver) |
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SCRUM Report |
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Deliver the tasks and promote ones work across the organization |
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Hassle free delivery reporting. |
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Escalate issues and ensure managerial involvement. |
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In short, GDE Project:
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Ensures timely and on -budget deliveries of your projects |
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Simplifies management reporting |
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Optimizes resource utilization |
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Integrates all project activities |
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Provides comprehensive set of utilities for stakeholder management. |
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Shares best practices across your projects portfolio. |
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Maximizes your profits by meeting business objectives. |
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