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Leadership in Distributed Software Development Project Management
EPAM has invested over 120 man-years since 1999 into the development of its proprietary project management tool – EPAM Project Management Center (EPAM PMC) – which provides strong support to our software engineering projects delivery model. Today EPAM PMC is ideal for reducing risks and giving budget and scope control for Iterative and Agile development methodology.
The EPAM PMC covers all software project development stages providing a superior environment for the distributed project team, the project manager, other project stakeholders and the customer. Its modules align with the project lifecycle stages as follows:
EPAM PMC Features:
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Multi-site, multi-project capabilities |
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Activity based software development lifecycle (SDLC); providing full traceability between artefacts (Requirements, Tests, Bugs, Issues, Risks, Documents) and actual activities. Activities can be branched and hierarchical. |
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Project role based access control, comprehensive & flexible. Open to EPAM, client and 3rd parties |
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Fully configurable workflow engine with built in notification/messaging, integrated into all modules |
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Extensive reporting and KPIs, highly configurable |
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Integration with MS Project and Outlook (tasks and email) |
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All open web service based APIs to allow integration with open market tools to fit your existing practices where necessary. |
Appreciated by EPAM's numerous clients and independent authorities, EPAM PMC is one of the key pillars of our distributed project management process which provides transparency and visibility into the principal software development project deliverables, resource management, team messaging, project related documents and files, bug tracking, and build-control. Unmatched transparency of development team operation facilitated by EPAM PMC promotes collaboration and partnership, not adversarial “client-vendor” atmosphere. While complete traceability provides significant time savings and TCO reductions for business users and IT management during change management for the development lifecycle as well as maintenance, enhancement and support.
An essential part of the adopted software engineering process, EPAM PMC was pivotal in helping EPAM through the SEI-CMMI assessment making the company the first organization in Europe certified to CMMI® Level 4.
The combination of EPAM PMC and other EPAM proprietary internal applications (like Build Engineering Portal, EPAM Utilization and Project Staffing Analyzer, Hardware Utilization Analyzer, Functional Testing Framework, Help Desk Center, and a whole set of Knowledge Management systems) add significantly to the end deliverable value which our clients get from any number of staff in any location.
E.g. a combination of EPAM PMC and EPAM Build Engineering Portal enables EPAM’s team to reduce errors, increase quality and make software more extensible, easier to maintain and less time consuming and less expensive to support. They also provide accurate, comprehensive performance reporting and KPI enablement for every production resource, thus simplifying and accelerating personal assessment and training path. PMC and BEP significantly reduce the overhead of communications and oversight for both clients and EPAM’s staff.
Many of our clients estimate that the depth of features, level of integration and the unmatched traceability in EPAM’s internal tools delivers 12-18% efficiency/cost savings on total cost to deliver work.
"EPAM's PMC makes the geographical distance between our production team and development team a non-issue. Our in-house production team easily reports bugs and enhancement requests to our remote development group. Requirements documents and graphics are easily uploaded for cross-team reference. We can also specify the urgency and priority of requests. Because each bug and enhancement is assigned a unique ID number, we can effortlessly track the progress of any issue. The EPAM PMC is a truly valuable tool for quality assurance and project and task management."
Michelle Casey
Director, Product Management
LasVegas.com
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Successful IT Outsourcing:
Dividing Labor for Success |
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Proprietary Project Management |
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| "EPAM Systems, a leading Russian service provider, manages several hundred projects. EPAM PMC is robust enough to influence a company’s decision to choose EPAM. EPAM’s system facilitates the entire project cycle and is well integrated."
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