Project Management

While every project has its own unique challenges, and every methodology has its own particular phases and activities, at the core of every successful project is good project management. At E-gineering, we fully understand and value the need for managing people, process and technology from start to finish through effective use of proven project management principles and best practices.

Whether your project warrants large-scale development and resource management through the use of heavyweight methodologies like the Rational Unified Process (RUP) or whether your project requires a lightweight and nimble approach such as eXtreme Programming (XP), E-gineering understands the ideologies of each and can provide resources with the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to orchestrate and delivery projects on-time and on-budget.

Traditionally, project managers have simply ‘monitored’ tasks and ‘managed’ top-down waterfall models and phases. We see Project Management as an essential ‘leadership’ role for driving results through a hands-on, continuously monitored, iterative process of planned deliverables and measurable results. Good project leaders do more than just “keep track of the project plan” and “schedule meetings”.

When projects get in a crunch, it’s too easy for many to dig in and work their way out of a hole by increasing development hours and “working harder not smarter”, which usually results in missed budgets, timeframes and a compromised solution. It’s much harder to proactively foresee and plan ahead and “manage” the project away from these holes by maintaining control of the project, budget, and scope. Through proper Project Management, E-gineering’s team of management professionals can provide your team with these critical planning and leadership skills, leaving developers free to do what they do best – build software! Our project managers all started out as programmers, so they understand the intricacies of the development process. And our experienced technical architects also understand the PM lingo, so they can further compliment the project management process to further ensure your project’s success.

We have found a project can have a very good pool of technical resources, but it takes good technical project management to achieve or exceed the desired results. Accordingly, we believe that it is inefficient to manage a software development project if you don't understand the principles of programming. Our managers can achieve more productivity with your team because we understand the software development process. We’re able to carefully streamline the development process through tight interaction and “bridging the gaps” from developer to architect to project manager, in a way that achieves maximum productivity with lower overhead.

From project beginning to end, regardless of the chosen development methodology, all projects have the same basic phases: Initiation, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing (Project Management Institute). All projects have most, if not all, of the same set of deliverables: Scope/Vision document, Project Charter, Requirements Documents, Technical Designs & UML Models, Issues Lists, Risk Documents, Status Reports, Defect Lists, Change Requests, Client Sign-off and Quality Assurance Reviews, Resource Schedules, Project Milestones, and the all-important Project Plan.

The E-gineering team will ensure that all of these phases and tasks are included to reflect the needs of your unique project, based on scope, resources, and schedules. Our management professionals are committed to providing a superior level of value and service to every client and in fulfilling the E-gineering vision of providing uncompromised integrity, excellence, and valuable trusted relationships.

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