Project Management Software

Control BPM Projects with SmartBPM® Processes

The Project Management Framework (PMF) helps business priorities drive best practices for SmartBPM and other agile projects, allowing managers and participants to scope, monitor, and report on projects. PMF handles project portfolios of task groups, tasks, issues, and bugs. SmartBPM controls provide outstanding visibility into PMF projects at every level.

PMF provides extensible project templates, including out-of-the-box support for Scrum projects. PMF integrates user stories and use cases from Application Profiler, and lets managers and product owners flesh out these stories (including Scrum story points) in PMF. The framework can also import projects from Microsoft Project.

Working on Projects

As projects progress, managers assign tasks to project resources, and PMF monitors completion. PMF provides a Web Services-based API allowing external tools (such as IDEs or code repositories) to post changes to PMF projects, manage the work list, and move items into or out of projects. Participants and managers can easily drag-drop tasks among task groups, allowing product owners to move items out of backlog into specific sprints. Dates can be added top-down from features and groups, or calculated bottom-up from lower-level tasks.

Monitoring and Reporting

PMF includes at-a-glance project dashboards along with dozens of reports, including health overviews, work summaries, and defect management reports. Projects are displayed in a dynamic tree-grid, rolling up hours, stories, and points, and showing more details as the manager drills down in the tree. Information from use cases and test cases is incorporated, providing reports based on completion and coverage of the original business requirements. Status details can also be exported for use in external project and tracking applications.

Pega’s agile BPM development methodology supports transformation projects from requirements through deployment with tools for directly capturing business objectives, model-driven architecture, Scrum-based project management and testing, champion-challenger piloting, localization and accessibility, and optimization and health management.

The Project Management Framework turns BPM on itself, speeding and simplifying project development. The framework brings business objectives to Scrum methodology in a model-driven environment to avoid requirements hand-offs and speed up changes, testing, and deployment.

Prerequisites: The Project Management Framework requires SmartBPM® version 5.5SP1 or higher. The framework interfaces with developer environments running SmartBPM® version 5.4SP2 or higher.