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EASOFLOW

A Guided Tour

V2013052130” pitch - Easoflow is a Web collaborative portal for SWVSEs, which growth is slowed down due tosynchronization problem in software development tasksor a lack of organization in project management.Easoflow.com is a solution standardizing projectmanagement and software development processesthrough a simple and guided streamlining of the newstandard ISO/IEC 29110.

Current Context for SW VSE’s

● Communication with External

Stakeholders is difficult !

� How to agree on the expected results?

� How frequently to update customers on � How frequently to update customers on

status and progress

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Current Context for SW VSE’s

Communication with Internal Team is difficult !

● Hard to keep development team focused on project vision

� Feature creeping by development team

● Hard to achieve efficient parallelism in development effort by work team

� who leads the architecture?

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Easoflow is Unique

Simple Guidance to streamline project lifecycle activities to the new standard ISO/IEC 29110 – Entry profile

1. Standardize the execution of activities and tasks of project management and software implementation

2. Collaborative platform � Explicit communication2. Collaborative platform � Explicit communication3. Align an enterprise to ISO 29110 transparently

NO Change in team’s usual daily dev. WorkNO hidden or indirect costs in training, in human or financial resources

** VSE can keep their flexibility and dynamism **

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1. Easoflow combines management of Projects, Requirements & Changes

● Project Management tools often focused on planning only

with No capabilities to execute the plan� Easoflow enables planning & also following/enacting the plan

● Requirement & Change Management tools often propose

their own scheduling featurestheir own scheduling features� Easoflow unifies project management and requirement & change

management on a single plan and schedule


2. Easoflow orchestrates the work

● Enable systematic execution of a project plan and

authorise re-planning

● Allow to follow recognised

development lifecycle approachesdevelopment lifecycle approaches● Iterative and incremental

● V cycle or Waterfall

● Provide a dashboarding of the

project execution


3. Easoflow alignsVSE practices to ISO29110

● Transparent execution of ISO29110 Entry Profile● Automated task assignment

● Communicate important information across dev. team

● Allow customer to add and to adapt requirements● Allow customer to add and to adapt requirements

● Keep all stakeholders up-to-date on real project status


ISO 29110 – A Guided Tour

ISO 29110

● ISO 29110 is an international standard to provide a set of processes to manage software development in VSEs.

● Profiles: Entry, basic, intermediate and advanced. ● Entry and basic are published by ISO● Project Management Process● Software Implementation Process● Software Implementation Process

● Entry � increased flexibility and agility● Intermediate profile will add 3 Processes:

Resource Management, Process Management and Project Portfolio Management

Easoflow currently implements the ISO29110 entry profile

ISO 29110 – Entry Profile

● ISO 29110 entry profile fits for ● Small size projects OR

● Small Enterprises with no experience on software processes

● Benefits are:● Benefits are:● An agreed set of project requirements and agreed set of products

delivered to the customer

● Systematic simple development life cycle● Project Management

● Software Implementation

ISO 29110 : Project Management

ISO 29110 : Software Implementation

EasoflowIteration Planning in relation to ISO29110 processes

Iteration 2

Iteration 1

Iteration 3

Easoflow– The Demo

Easoflow – The Personas

Dave – 30 years oldCEO max 25 employees – 2 years existenceSW house solution providerP&L responsible

Lea – 28 years oldProject ManagerWorks with 5 developers and reports to Dave

John – 28 years oldWorks for a commercial enterprise

Purchase Manager


Works with 5 developers and reports to DaveDelivers a solution meeting the customer needs

Tom – 23 years oldSW developerImplements his SW bits accordingto Lea’s directives orhis own experience

Purchase ManagerCustomer in search for a SW solution

Jerry – 40 years oldSW developerImplements his SW bits accordingto Lea’s directives orhis own experience

Easoflow - The Collaborative Workspace

DaveCEO

JohnTom

Subscribe to a WorkspaceInvite members and manage rolesDelegate project leadingCreate and Launch project workflowsGet progress and up-to-date project status

Proceed and complete assigned tasksRegister and update change requestsGet progress and up-to-date project status

EasoflowJohn

Customer

LeaProject

Manager

TomSW

developer


Add new /change requirementsInvolve for validation tasks Receive/exchange deliverablesGet progress and up-to-date project status

Initiate and follow the ISO29110 norm by cycle/iteration using simple workflowsAssign tasks to the work team and customerGet progress and up-to-date project status

Easoflow – Project & Workflows

• ISO 29110 Project Management

Projects• Project initialization

Project � Stadium Event Agenda

Workspace

Iterations

• ISO 29110 SW Implementation

Stadium Event OrganizationVersion 1.3

Iteration � 3 Implement Feature ABC

CyclesManagement

Stadium Event AgendaCycle � Version 1.3


Demo Scenarios NOT AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC VERSIONInteraction Design of Easoflow under constructionNew Videos Available with V1 Release

● Scenario 1: Signing up, Creating a Workspace and a Project, Invite people and assign roles

Easoflow - Scenario 1_player.html

● Scenario 2: Create Cycle, Plan project and iteration, Launch iteration● Scenario 2: Create Cycle, Plan project and iteration, Launch iterationEasoflow - Scenario 2_player.html

● Scenario 3: Requirement Analysis, Specification, and ValidationEasoflow - Scenario 3_player.html

● Scenario 4: Monitor Project Progress and record project dataEasoflow - Scenario 4_player.html

● Scenario 5: Assess & Control Project and re-plan to stay in-lineEasoflow - Scenario 5_player.html


Easoflow– Release & Roadmap

Currently revamping the interaction design of Easoflow

… V1.0 - Field Release - Q4.2013

Roadmap for later versions● Field feedback (current beta tests and initial customers)

● Follow-up of ISO29110 evolution

● Interfacing with internal ALM tools from an customer enterprise


EASOFLOW

A Guided Tour

V2013052130” pitch - Easoflow is a Web collaborative portal for SWVSEs, which growth is slowed down due tosynchronization problem in software development tasksor a lack of organization in project management.Easoflow.com is a solution standardizing projectmanagement and software development processesthrough a simple and guided streamlining of the newstandard ISO/IEC 29110.

easoflow - a guided tour public

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