PROGRESS REPORT AGAINST PF2004 ROADMAP
by Ravi Shankar, VP of
Software Development
In PF2004, the product development
charter presented was:
- IT Infrastructure improvements
- Exploiting the power
of Critical Chain
- Making Concerto easier
to use
Below is our progress report
against the charter. We met 100% of our IT commitments,
but failed to meet only 2 items in the functionality
area.
IT INFRASTRUCTURE
Security
þ Windows NT Authentication
System
Reliability
þ Improved DB Upgrade
þ Concerto as Service
þ Automatic Reconnection to database
þ Improved Error Logging
þ Support for Load Balancing
MS-Project
þ MS-Project 2003 support
Other
þ 508 Compliance
FULLY EXPLOIT THE
POWER OF CRITICAL CHAIN
Measurements
and Diagnostics
þ Flow Trend
þ Graphical Pipeline Status Report
þ Configurable Custom Fields
for Reason Codes
ý Pareto Chart of Reason Codes’ Impact
on Buffers
ý Due Date Performance Report
Pipeline
What-ifs
þ Duration What-Ifs in Pipeline
Project
Configurations
þ Subtask Improvements
þ Honor P2P in Pipeline
MAKE PRODUCT EASIER
TO USE
Execution
þ Project and Task Participants
þ Task Update History
Planning
þ Fixed Lead Time Tasks
þ Pipeline Enhancements
Resource
Portal
þ HTML Based L:C
þ HTML Based Task List
Other
þ Several customer requests addressed
PF2005 ROADMAP
The Flow Trend report has been found valuable by
customers for measuring performance at a resource
level without collecting a lot of data. While Portfolio
Status and Trend Chart provide a measure at a project
level, the Flow Trend shows how work is flowing at
the resource level and has become a part of the weekly
review process with some customers.
Going forward, we will continue adding functionality
to exploit the power of CC as well as ongoing enhancements.
Some of the salient functionality in the above areas
are mentioned below:
EXPLOITING THE POWER
OF CRITICAL CHAIN
Support a process
of ongoing improvement (POOGI)
Ø Web-based Buffer Diagnostics
module
Ø
Integrated
with Reason Codes
Support
TOC based Financial Measurements
Ø
Module
based on Dollar-Day/Flush concept (described by Dr.
Goldratt in “Critical Chain”)
ONGOING ENHANCEMENTS
Measurements
Dashboard
Ø Due Date Performance
Ø
Task
Update Compliance
Pipeline
What-Ifs
Ø
Resource
WIF
Project
Configurations
Ø
Subtasks/Sub-project
improvements
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