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Guide-through and Just-in-Time Process

TOGAF^® ADM Process Navigator Guide-Through Process
Full Project Management Process with Just-in-Time Process
The TOGAF^® ADM Process Navigator. It covers the nine ADM phases.
Activities of an ADM phase. Each phase contains a set of activities required to perform in order to produce the corresponding deliverables.
Some activities require you to fill-in forms in order to produce deliverable.
Gap Analysis with ArchiMate^® 3. Look at the bottom right. It's a color legend that enables you to effective apply color code to elements in diagram.
Generate TOGAF^® ADM deliverable once your've completed the activities.
Architecture Repository is where deliverables being archived. While deliverables are automatically archived, you can also put a file into a drawer (in the Architecture Repository) manually.
The Project Management Lifecycle. There are five phases in total.
The activities involved in the Identification phase.
The use of Work Breakdown Structure in scope definition in Project Management.
Just-in-Time process template for TOGAF^® ADM.
Just-in-Time process template for PMBOK.

Challenges

Requires a lot of resources, investment, expertise and training to get a project started.
IT initiatives often mis-aligned with business strategies or perhaps not even adding any value to the business in the end.
Communication breakdown among stakeholders from different domains and disciplines
Standards, best practices and tools supported for enterprise architecture, project management and agile process are not integrated; resulting in separate and inefficient development platform silos.
Deliverable-based Process often involved many manual procedures which is tedious and time consuming.
Most of the software are inflexible and try to provide one-size-fits-all solution.

Our Solutions

Visual Paradigm's Guide-through process embeds instructions, input references and samples for performing the steps with the necessary tools bundled. Your team can kick-start EA and project management project with ease, regardless of your team's size.
Start your EA and project management with well established and widely used open standards and templates such as TOGAF, or PMBOK^{^®} that ensure the IT initiatives are aligned with your business vision, goals and strategies.
Visual Paradigm provides a collaborative and automated environment for you to manage stakeholders, assignment and scheduling of tasks with PERT chart, generating report with Just-in-Time Doc. Composer and archive completed deliverables automatically to the Documentation Cabinet.
Seamlessly integrate different standards, frameworks and processes. Your team can select any combination of them to fit your case.
Fully automated step-by-step guide-through approach together with the project progress indicator, telling you where you are, and what will be done next without any hassle.
You can follow standard processes or tailor your own design with a completely new process from scratch, our Just-in-Time process lets you adopt suitable templates, along with a simple operation by dragging work items around for minor touch-up.

Agile Software Development

Agile approach has gained a considerable amount of attention in the software industry in the current economic atmosphere, however the adoption of an agile approach is not without its complications:

Agile Software Development
Overview, relate and break-down complex software requirements into manageable user activities, user tasks and epics and subsequently to user stories.
Oversee the user stories of the entire product. Create, prioritize and re-locate user stories on-the-fly.
Estimating user story both in story points and hours at the same time.
Edit, prioritize, label user stories with easy drag & drop GUI. Manage and organize stories with multiple sprints and epics.
Keep an eye on the project's progress. View and update the progress of stories by drag-and-drop around the columns.
See the start and end dates of tasks, their inter-dependencies and progresses, make adjustment to their duration on-the-fly in the Gantt Chart tool.
Write user story statements under an Epic, and have user stories generated automatically.

Challenges

Regulated project and requirements.
Implementation of agile development increases in diffculity as scale of projects reaches enterprise level, especially with projects consisting of multiple virtual teams across the globe.
Prioritize project portfolio into a collection of programs and subsequently be developed and managed by different agile teams.
Manually plan, manage and update various backlogs, sprint tasks and communications for remote teams is quite tedious and time consuming.
Track the progress of sprints, update and summarize various statuses with whiteboard could be inefficient and time-wasting, and the information is often inconsistent and out of sync.

Our Solutions

Seamlessly receive user features from EA or Project Management process which can adequately address various enterprise issues including governance and standard compliance.
Task manager allows remote teams develop projects in parallel and manage tasks and multiple sprints effectively. It puts agile process live which can be accessed through desktop and over the cloud.
Fully automated agile process for product backlog grooming such as, decompose user activities into user tasks and epics, all in one page. You can further break down epics into a set of related user stories.
Make story estimate process transparent to promote fair and open policy, perform affinity estimation for user stories in terms of size and technology complexities. Perform spike investigation in the initial development stage.
Prioritize user stories into sprints and monitor progress with sprint board.
Assign task in the sprint board inline and check detailed "My Task" or "project view" by going to the task manager at your own choices.
Tasifier provides easy to conceptualized Gantt chart view which is always kept in sync with the list view in Tasifier.
In addition, the agile process is integrated with EA and Project Management seamlessly to avoid development silos.

Flexible Process customization and Integrations

Why do some people go for agile approach, while the other people prefer to follow a standard process, framework and methodology? Which one should we choose? It really depends on whether the requirements of target system is predictable or not. If the requirements are tended to be predictable, to follow a well-defined process would be fine, or otherwise, if the project has high risk or when upfront requirements are hard to obtain, then an agile approach is more desirable.

Nowadays, requirements tended to be dynamic and might change quickly, and thus, an agile approach with flexible processes should be adopted in just-in-time and just-enough manner. We might need our process to be more agile and able to be customizable from time-to-time for different problems or situations. If this is the case, then it is recommended to use Just-in-Time process. It consists a gallery of work items and forms that allow you to design variant of process templates. You can simply drag & drop work items or forms for the inclusion of exclusion of works into the activities of a process needed to be touched up flexibly just-in-time.

Agile Toolsets

Draw wireframes for website, desktop applications, Android tablets and phones, iOS tablets and phones.
Using Class Diagram for the design of an API. With no redundant widgets on the screen, you can design freely in a large diagram editor.
Model system behaviors with UML sequence diagram tool. With the use of the Resource Catalog diagram tool, a sequence diagram can be created quickly and effortlessly.
Represent business goals with UML use case diagram.
Build documents with Doc. Composer.
Design database with Entity Relationship Diagram. Take advantage of features like auto column, inline column editing, auto FK creation, etc.
Manage software development activities with Tasifier - our task management tool.

Different projects might require specific combinations of agile tools, various situation or the nature of the problem. An agile development environment should also include a rich toolset for developers to flexibly adopt them at their own choices. Visual Paradigm consists of a large set of agile tools to fulfill the needs of the entire software development process for your team. A selected group of major agile tools in Visual Paradigm are listed as following: