Project Management Methods

• Task Overview: Design an effective Daily Scrum with customizable Task Overview and graphically display your sprint progress in the Burndown Chart with Cumulative Flow Diagram.
• Digital Scrum Board: Move individual activities from the User Stories on the digital Scrum Board with easy drag & drop control.
• Product Backlog and User Stories: Structure and refine the requirements for your product using the Projektron BCS Product Backlog with epics, user stories and sub-requirements through to activities and acceptance tests.
• Sprint Planning: Projektron BCS takes the development speed of your team (velocity) and the estimated story points of your user stories into account during sprint planning and informs you of capacity bottlenecks.
• Sprint Backlog: Drag and drop user stories from the Product Backlog into the corresponding Sprint Backlog.
• Scrum assistants: suitable assistants accompany you in your Scrum projects and sub-projects, when dealing with individual Scrum structure elements and during Sprint planning.
• Resource management: reserve staff capacities for individual sprints or ear entire Scrum project.
• Sprint Calendar: Automatically create regular meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demo (Review) or Sprint Retrospective in the Sprint Calendar.
• Integrated time tracking: let your Scrum team book incurred efforts directly to the processed user stories, subrequirements, activities and acceptance test.
• Ticket system with Scrum functionality: create a user story directly from a ticket and add it to a product backlog or link tickets to user stories, epics or subrequirements.

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• Visual project management: Use the Kanban method with the Kanban board in BCS to visualize the processing status and organization of tasks in the project or tickets to tasks.
• Kanban view in "My Area": Get a compact overview of the tasks of a project, their processing status, priority and the processing team already on your personal dashboard.
• Easy handling: Simply drag and drop your ticket into the next column to change the processing status and the associated responsibility. You can create a new ticket with just one click on the board.
• Team planning in the Kanban Board: Assign employees to different tasks in seconds via drag-and-drop.
• Maximum customizable board: Define number and names of your processing statuses and create swimlanes in the Kanban board for internal priority, customer priority or ticket type.
• Kanban and Scrum: Use the Kanban board in BCS also as a Scrum board or as a Scrumban board to drag and drop Scrum structure elements, e.g. activities from user stories, to change processing status or prioritization.
• Work-in-progress limits: define WIP limits for tasks and tickets flexibly (upper limit for tickets or tasks of a status) to not overload your team.

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• PRINCE2 Assistant: BCS supports you in all management phases of your PRINCE2 projects.
• Quality Register: record criteria in the Quality Register and define who is responsible for checking and accepting the quality criteria.
• Tolerance limits: As project manager, set tolerance limits for project values together with the steering committee and monitor them in the project overview using the tachometer display.
• Project phases: Create a clear schedule for your PRINCE2 project and define the colors for the phase display yourself.
• Resource management: Reserve staff capacities for work packages, project phases or your entire PRINCE2 project.
• Change management: Members of the steering committee can view, review and approve open items with a single click. Escalate approvals and changes to the steering committee on tickets.
• Business Case: Easily export your entire business case as a report from Projektron BCS.
• Project Roles: Display fixed project roles in your PRINCE2 project as an organization chart.
• Graphical network diagram: Visualize predecessor and successor relationships of related products.

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• Goal Definition: Use forms in BCS to easily define your specific overall and sub-goals.
• Goal hierarchy graphic: Keep an eye on all goals thanks to the dynamic goal hierarchy graphic in Projektron BCS.
• Project environment analysis: BCS supports you with graphical overviews during project environment analysis in project preparation.
• Stakeholder management: In BCS, you plan the appropriate communication strategy for each stakeholder group in the appropriate martix.
• Risk management: Plan appropriate countermeasures and let BCS support you in risk management through all project phases.
• Work breakdown structure: Visualize your project structure in the graphical work breakdown structure or in the clear tree view.
• Schedule: In the interactive Gantt chart, you can see the critical path, project progress and cross-project dependencies.
• Resource planning: Projektron BCS reliably shows you any resource conflicts and impending resource bottlenecks. Easily perform resource-based scheduling.
• Reporting: Generate various project reports quickly and directly with the reporting functions in BCS and send them directly from BCS to PMO or steering committee.
• Phase Plan: Visualize phase transitions and milestones in the Gantt chart and in your schedules with BCS.
• Multi-project overview: BCS offers you a control center for your multi-project management, in which you can see at a glance in which phases your projects are currently located.

More about project management according to IPMA and GPM with BCS

• Configuration of standard scenarios: Design specific scenarios for your Hermes projects by creating templates for projects. Projektron BCS supports you with a wizard.
• Milestones as quality gates: Define the phases for your Hermes project centrally and create milestones as quality gates.
• Assured quality management: Use system-controlled workflows and checklists to support your employees and ensure the quality of the project.
• Hermes and Scrum: Hermes offers a module for agile development with Scrum. In BCS, you combine both project management methods easily.
• Uniform role model: Easily create the roles you need for your Hermes project and define the rights for the individual roles specifically.

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