Agile planning with Asta Teamplan
Providing complete visibility over the entire development process is critical in a self-managed team environment such as software development companies. Effective project management avoids schedules slipping, costs overrunning, reduced product quality and unsatisfactory service.
Whether you follow traditional methods of development or the more modern methods of Agile Planning, Asta Teamplan supports them both. With Asta Teamplan’s intuitive project and resource management solution, you get planning, scheduling, tracking and reporting functionality that ensures your software releases are consistently delivered on time.
Asta Teamplan facilitates real-time project collaboration which is enhanced through the fully integrated web-based time and expense tracking solution. As a result, developers spend less time on reporting progress and more time on coding and testing.
The central database provides up to date dashboard reports showing progress on all associated tasks, tests and defects across multiple projects and teams. This pro-active way of managing your development schedule enables you to quickly adjust scope in response to changing priorities as well as comparing actual vs. planned ensuring you, the business and your customers are happy.
Benefits of Asta Teamplan for Software Developers.
Complete visibility
Built around a ‘live’ central database, both Developers and Project Managers are able to see the entire development process and status of features, quality, priorities and risks across multiple projects and teams. Real-time dashboards providing accurate project status reporting can be accessed via the network or remotely. Asta Teamplan connects organisations with regional or global offices and departments’ using remote users, ensuring no one is left out of the loop.
Enhanced communication
With nothing being done in isolation, Developers can be rapidly informed of any changes to the projects scope or schedule thus minimising any delays to the projects successful delivery. Having access to clear, accurate and specific project information helps Developers assess whether they are on track to deliver on time. If not, they are able to alert others and take appropriate action as soon as possible.
Tighter controls
Asta Teamplan provides a methodology to the way projects are planned, managed and executed. Historical project data helps to make persuasive cases about what can realistically be achieved within a specified time or cost restraint. Multi-user environments work far better when there is a central point of control over all project and non-project data.
Improved efficiency
Web-based timesheets enable Developers and QA Analysts to accurately record their time and expenses from any location. Once approved, projects are automatically updated within the central database. Developers can easily update project plans and effectively prioritise their workload accordingly. Online timesheets, automatic alerts and Microsoft Outlook are all channels for keeping both in-house and remote developers informed.
Better resource utilisation
Graphical histograms clearly show who is doing what, where and when making resource allocation and planning simple and effective. Developers can be accurately assigned to tasks based on their skills, charge out rates or availability for optimum productivity and profitability. With a more disciplined approach to resource utilisation, workloads can be pro-actively managed for both developers and the business as a whole.
Accurate planning
Asta Teamplan’s integrated system collates historical data from previous successful projects enabling accurate project planning in terms of duration, cost and resource requirements. By knowing the number of hours associated with tasks, you can base projects on effort required and not calendar time, taking into account possible interruptions such as emergency fixes, meetings etc.
Meet business objectives
Key performance indicators such as timeliness and quality of projects delivered can quickly measure individual Developer performance and overall company performance. Regularly tracking your planned vs. actual enables the project manager to assess current performance levels and make informed decisions/changes that ensure the business remains on track for meeting its strategic objectives.
Improved processes
Through greater visibility, improved communication and access to accurate live data, managers can be kept up to date at every stage of the project. Valuable information can be included in projects to support progress reporting. Asta Teamplan will flag up early warning signs on problems in meeting milestones, meaning you can tackle any issues before they start.
Business integration
Asta Teamplan’s project management and resource management system can integrate with current line of business systems such as test tracking systems. Automating these core processes can improve efficiencies, reduce administration tasks and free up staff to concentrate on more business critical tasks.
Manage risks
Asta Teamplan helps quantify project risks by assigning uncertainties to the tasks within a project. Regular risk analysis throughout the projects life cycle identifies risks before they impact, allowing Developers to take action and reduce the chance of projects being late or over budget. ‘What if’ scenarios enable Developers to adjust a projects scope, schedule or quality so as to best serve the customer and the business.
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