Project Management
Leadership, Practical Insight
Avantia has expertise to help you meet your IT objectives using our project management process and personnel. We can provide project management expertise at any point in the IT development process. The top reasons to invest in good project management are:
- Lessen the time to market
- Increased staff productivity
- Reduced response time
- Increased cost performance
- Reduced labor hours performance
- Increased quality
- More accurate project accounting
- Alignment to strategic business goals
- Increased customer satisfaction
- More accurate schedule estimating
Avantia can provide project management expertise at any point in the IT development process.
Planning and requirements Definition
There are two key aspects of this phase: (1) planning which includes the need to develop or significantly enhance a system is identified, feasibility and costs are assessed, and risk and project-planning approaches are define and (2) defining the functional requirements that the system will need to address.
Design
During this phase, functional requirements are translated into preliminary and detailed designs. Decisions are made to address how the system will meet functional, physical, interface, and data requirements.
Development and Testing
The system is validated through a sequence of unit, integration, system, and acceptance test activities. The objective is to ensure that the system functions as expected and user requirements are satisfied.
Implementation
During this phase, the new or enhanced system is installed in the production environment, users are trained, data is converted (as needed), and the system is turned over to the user.
Operations, Tuning and Maintenance
The emphasis of this phase is to ensure that user needs continue to be met and that the system continues to perform according to specifications. Routine hardware and software maintenance and upgrades are performed to ensure effective system operations.