Project Management Methods

• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Support for all knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide: Projektron BCS covers knowledge areas such as project integration, time, costs, quality, resources, communication, risks, procurement and stakeholder management.
• Project life cycle management: Support in all process groups – from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control to completion.
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Creation of a detailed task hierarchy to structure the project.
• Earned Value Management (EVM): Comprehensive performance, time and cost analyses, including SPI and CPI.
• Risk Management: Identification, analysis and monitoring of risks according to the risk management plan.
• Change management: Implementation of an integrated change control process for managing project changes.
• Stakeholder analysis: Recording and management of stakeholders and their requirements in the stakeholder register.
• Reporting and communication: Automated reports such as status reports, progress analyses and project-related communication plans.

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• Tailoring tools: Efficient adaptation of the V-Model XT to project specifics through static and dynamic tailoring – flexible and audit-proof.
• Role and rights management: Clear assignment of responsibilities for clients, contractors or combined roles according to V-Model XT.
• Project structure and product management: Hierarchical mapping of products, intermediate results and their responsibilities in the graphical product network plan and work breakdown structure.
• Milestone and Quality Gate Management: Precise planning and visualization of critical decision points for transparent project implementation.
• Process Visualization and Workflows: Creation of customized workflows and BPMN processes to support specific project type variants and building blocks.
• Resource and Capacity Planning: Efficient management of resources and capacities for complex system development projects.
• Integrated document and change management: Automatic documentation of all activities, changes and progress – complete and traceable.
• Real-time controlling and reporting: Transparency through dashboards, target-performance comparisons and earned value analyses for informed decisions and the highest quality.

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• Requirements management: Projektron BCS ensures that all requirements are fully documented and linked to tests and changes.
• Standardised workflows: companies can standardise and control their development processes according to the Automotive SPICE specifications.
• Risk management: project risks are identified, evaluated and continuously monitored by the system.
• Document management: Projektron BCS enables complete, traceable documentation with versioning history management.
• Resource and capacity planning: The software supports companies in optimally managing personnel and material resources in order to avoid bottlenecks and use resources efficiently.
• Project planning: Projects can be planned in a structured way in milestone-based development plans with clear dependencies and deadlines.
• Quality assurance: Processes and results undergo automated testing and release mechanisms to meet ASPICE quality requirements.
• Configuration and change management: Changes to software, hardware and documentation can be traced at any time thanks to versioning, logs and baseline plans.
• Multi-project management: Companies retain control over parallel development projects, can view all relevant KPIs across projects, avoid resource conflicts and use synergies.
• Reports and KPI dashboards: Real-time reporting with ASPICE key figures: Projektron BCS provides clear dashboards and reports and enables you to perform real-time reporting with ASPICE key figures.

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• Life cycle support for the entire PMflex project life cycle: Manage your projects efficiently from initiation to completion with features for goal definition, risk management and resource management to efficiently manage each phase of the project life cycle.
• Efficient risk management and continuous process optimization: Identify, evaluate and systematically minimize risks and continuously improve your processes through regular reviews.
• Documentation, templates and collaborative tools: Access centrally stored documents, edit Microsoft Office files in your browser and use reusable templates. Document solutions and promote collaboration within your team.
• Dynamic resource and role planning: Assign resources dynamically and monitor utilization. With a detailed role and rights concept, you ensure that every role, from product owner to project manager, is clearly defined.
• Reporting and transparent communication: Create project reports and status updates with a single click. Integrated CRM mail functions and defined viewing rights ensure a controlled flow of information to all stakeholders.
• Organisational chart and project organisation: visualise the project structure and precisely assign responsibilities to ensure a clear distribution of roles and project organisation.
• Flexible tailoring and project-related templates: adapt project methods to different project classes and save plans as templates for future-proof standardisation of your processes.
• Agile method integration with PMflex-Agile: Use agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban boards or hybrid approaches to respond flexibly to project requirements and work iteratively.
• Adherence to compliance and security requirements: Protect your sensitive data with access controls and encryption to fully meet the security and compliance requirements of your projects.

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• Clarity in roles and responsibilities: Define PM² roles such as project manager, client and steering committee with clear access rights and responsibilities.
• Manage resources in a targeted manner: Plan and manage resource capacities based on PM² guidelines for optimal project utilization and strategic prioritization.
• Manage stakeholders according to PM² criteria: Use stakeholder registers and communication plans to systematically manage expectations and influencing factors.
• Support life cycle phases: Accompany your projects through all PM² phases – from initiation and planning to completion – for seamless process monitoring.
• Tailor project requirements: Flexibly adapt projects to your organization using PM²-compliant templates and customizable wizards.
• Prioritize portfolios according to PM² standards: Structure projects based on strategic criteria and maximize the benefits of PM² portfolio management.
• Visualize and prioritize: Use the project portfolio diagram to evaluate and prioritize projects according to strategic direction.
• Manage programs comprehensively: Implement the PM² program guide for targeted control and monitoring of program progress.
• PM² Agile in action: Combine agile and classic PM² methods with BCS tools such as Scrum and Kanban boards for flexible project implementation.
• Stay secure and compliant: Ensure compliance with PM² data protection and compliance standards through detailed access controls and secure data processing.

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