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Every enterprise faces diverse project management challenges as far as tracking and managing their deliverables from different technology vendors is concerned. Problems such as tracking the status of each deliverable, implementing and following processes, responding to vendor’s claims on time and lack of a proper alerting system often plague project managers. What project managers require is an effective and sophisticated solution that can meet all their challenges and pain points efficiently and here are some tips that provide some ways and means to such these challenges. • Rather than jumping at a commercial off the shelf (COTS) solution, enterprises should look out for such software that can provide them with automated customized views, filters and reports for all their project management processes. A solution with doesn’t require any coding, scripting, database knowledge or web programming or the involvement of any IT resource. • Such an application lifecycle management solution should follow multiple processes for different entities and automate their various functions such as action items, change requests, configured items, deliverable transmittals, issues tracking, etc. • The solution should essentially be user friendly and its configurations should allow users to implement business applications easily. So be it implementing an application with various inter-dependent processes that requires custom fields, views, filters and reports via a simple drag and drop browser based interface that doesn’t require a database schema changes or coding. • ALM solutions that can reduce an enterprise’s overall organizational uncertainty level and increases productivity can prove beneficial for any enterprise. Such solutions ensure that deliverables need not be tracked manually and it encourages a proactive rather than a reactive mode of tracking deliverables. • There should be zero issues falling through the cracks, therefore the solution you finally opt for should take care of all the housekeeping and overhead tasks and improve the predictability of the deliverables. • The solution should provide enterprises with a detailed audit trail of every change in the processes, therefore a transparent and open system where every person knows where and why a particular process is held up and what can be done to move it. • The solution should improve the efficiency and productivity in processing the deliverables considerably, both in terms of cycle time and the manpower effort for the enterprise. • An optimized solution can bring about overall reduction in errors and omissions due to the workflow tasks were at least 10%. It workflow process automation solution should reduce time required to monitor and supervise other users for enterprises. Also read about enterprise service bus (ESB) at Wikipedia.
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