Software & Storage

Software and Storage development organizations today combat continually shrinking product life cycles, unpredictable shifts in demand, rapid commoditization, changing customer / marketplace requirements and technical disruptions. On top of this, product managers are demanding customer driven initiatives, financial feature justification / ROI and wholesale reprioritization of the release / feature portfolio. Team leaders are trying to manage increasingly specialized skill sets across distributed development sites, only to find that a critical resource is pacing the entire schedule. It's no wonder the "agile" flavor of the month club seems to grab the attention of many organizations, provide limited benefit to a small team, only to be unseated by the next passing initiative.

To succeed in this challenging development environment and provide sustainable long term benefit a comprehensive schedule driven solution enabling real process change is required. Development teams must be able to quickly and flexibly plan, manage and re-prioritize release schedules and resource / skill commitments in a shared centralized environment. Release schedules must distribute accountability across the entire team and deliver portfolio status and financial visibility to management while providing role based decision support dashboards for the entire team. Each team must be empowered to manage specialized work items and schedules, adjust resource / schedule priorities, react to change and collaboratively track status to ensure predictable results.

CrossPoint delivers a solution that meets the demanding requirements of software and storage development organizations enabled by a traditional top down or team-based bottom up implementation approach; in either case roll outs are structured to provide early wins helping to build solution momentum and advocacy while enabling successful project execution. CrossPoint provides the following solution capabilities enabling on time delivery for your development organization:

• Flexible, real-time scheduling that connects diverse cross-functional teams across organizations and skill sets
• Schedule visibility at all levels - portfolio, project and task - including status, issues, changes and financials
• Increased accountability via distributed plan management at program, team and individual contributor levels
• Reduce risk through early insight into potential program slippage enabled by the CrossPoint calculation engine
• Accurate financials for project / feature justification, ROI's and software capitalization
• Visibility to what resources are really working on - track and manage all work items: project tasks, unplanned work, action items, escalations, issues, risks, and others...
• Flexible process management supporting organizational goals and best practices - Six Sigma, ISO, flexible development practices
• Program traceability for regulatory compliance, SOX, FASB, as well as internal metrics - product management approvals
• Schedule impact analysis - assess the schedule / resource impact for changing project requirements, resources and priorities
• Self documenting projects and tasks capture full execution history, collaborations and attachments as a natural bi-product of system use
• Ease of use - CrossPoint was designed from the ground up for real-time schedule and resource management, ensuring that all users benefit from the solution with minimal administrative overhead

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