stages product development bpm suite - better processes in practice
DESCRIPTION
Stages is a BPM suite optimized for product development, system and software engineering, IT projects and other knowledge-intensive business processes. It allows users to define, manage, execute and control their processes while assuring compliance to standards like CMMI, ISO, SPICE or COBIT. Stages lets people understand and perform processes. It integrates with existing tools and platforms to automate the process execution. Stages is - integrated into the IT landscape - web based and cloud ready - proven in large scale global deployments Stages Sample Customers: Automotive: Audi, Volkswagen, General Motors, Daimler, Bosch, DENSO, Continental, ZF, Delphi, TRW, Johnson Controls, Webasto Medical / Healthcare / Rail: Siemens Healthcare, Thales, Bosch Innovations, NewTec Banking / IT: Credit Suisse, Atos Origin (ex Siemens Information Systems),GMC, DHL/German Mail Defense / Aerospace / Space: Raytheon Anschütz, Elbit Systems, Orbital Sciences, JAXATRANSCRIPT
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Stages Better Processes in Practice
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Stages – Better Processes in Practice
Stages• is a Business Process Management Suite optimized for
knowledge-intensive business processes(e.g. product development, systems/software/IT projects, organizational process frameworks and operating models)
• lets people easily understand and perform processes• integrates with existing tools and repositories to
automate processes• assures process compliance to governance frameworks
like ISO, CMMI, ITIL, COBIT and many more
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Stages Functions
Flexible
Architecture
Hierarchical
Processes
Distributed
Modeling
Consistency
Management
Release and
Versioning
Compliance
Management
Reports and
Dashboards
Measurement
Repository
Compliance
EvidenceUnified Work
Product Access
User Centric
Views
Team
Collaboration
Graphical
Modeling
Process
Visualisation
Process
Tailoring
Integrated Process
Execution
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Stages Concept
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Stages – Better Processes in Practice
Stages is
• integrated into the IT landscape• web based and cloud ready• proven in large scale global deployments
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Sample Use Cases
Enable Governance, Compliance and Transparency
Establish User-Centric Processes
Provide Quality Gate Process Execution
Provide Integrated Process Automation
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Governance, Compliance and Transparency
What usually happens:• Organisations publish policy, procedure and regulation documents• People find it very difficult to find the documents and use them in
their daily work
Why Stages is different:• Stages contains all kinds of process content and automatically
manages and maintains links between the different parts and layers• Compliance to CMMI, Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, ISO 62304, DO-
178/254, ITIL, COBIT, etc. is managed in the background
Your benefits:• People have a unique transparent source for all process content• Reduced efforts for demonstrating and assuring compliance
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Use Case: Process Governance for Projects
Application LifecycleProcess
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Use Case: Assure Compliance to Frameworks
Map standard requirements...
...to definedprocess...
...andidentifygaps.
...andidentifygaps.
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Use Case: Project and Program Management Methodologies
Project andProgram
ManagementMethodologies
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Use Case: Process Transparency
Whatshouldbedone
Whatshouldbecreated
Whatcanbeused
Who isrespon-sible
Automatic process visualisation, e.g. using Swimlane diagrams
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Sample Use Cases
Enable Governance, Compliance and Transparency
Establish User-Centric Processes
Provide Quality Gate Process Execution
Provide Integrated Process Automation
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User-Centric Processes
What usually happens:• Organisations publish abstract standard process descriptions
and process graphics in Visio or Powerpoint• People either follow only parts of the process or ignore it at all
Why Stages is different:• Process descriptions and process visualisations are tailored to
be project specific• Process is user-centric and lean, only the context relevant to a
user or role and for the specific project is shown
Your benefits:• People easily understand the process and what they need to
do in a specific situation• Better process acceptance and fidelity
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User-Centric Processes: Standard Process
Standard Process
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User-Centric Processes: Process Tailoring
ProcessTailoring
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User-Centric Process: Lean Process and Status
SimplifiedUser-CentricProcess
Status of documentin repository
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Key Use Cases
Enable Governance, Compliance and Transparency
Establish User-Centric Processes
Provide Quality Gate Process Execution
Provide Integrated Process Automation
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Quality Gates
What usually happens:• Organisations define abstract static project lifecycle with
milestones and quality gates• Documents required for quality gates are manually collected from
different repositories, checked and approved
Why Stages is different:• Milestones, quality gates and required documents are defined in
the project-specific process description• Required project documents and their status are automatically
shown, regardless where they are stored
Your benefits:• Consistent and efficient document check and approval• Harmonized access across different tools, platforms and
repositories
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Quality Gates: Definition in Lifecycle
Quality GatesQuality Gates
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Quality Gates: Documents and Status View
Required Documents for a Quality Gate
Unified view across different repositories
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Quality Gates: Unified Document and Status View
Project Documents
Unified view across different repositories
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Quality Gates: Direct Document Access
Direct access over different repositories
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Key Use Cases
Enable Governance, Compliance and Transparency
Establish User-Centric Processes
Provide Quality Gate Process Execution
Provide Integrated Process Automation
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Integrated Process Automation
What usually happens:• Processes are rigidly defined in Visio or Powerpoint and manually
configured or programmed into the execution tools• Process changes cause substantial efforts and have long cycle times
Why Stages is different:• Processes can be holistically defined and deployed to execution tools• People can work in their usual environment, the process supports
their daily work in the background
Your benefits:• Consistent implementation of processes across all execution tools• Instant and efficient propagation of process changes
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Integrated Process Automation: Process Definition
• Processes to be automated can be defined within theunified organizational process framework
• Modified and tailored processes can easily be deployed to the process execution tools
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Integrated Process Automation: User Environment
Sample Environment: IBM Rational Team Concert
User creates Change Request in the usual user
environment
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Integrated Process Automation: Active Process
• Work tickets are automatically created according toproject specific defined process
Work tickets are automatically created
according to the defined process in this project
Sample Environment: IBM Rational Team Concert
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Interfaces
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Systems• PTC Integrity, IBM Rational Team Concert (Jazz), MS Team Foundation Server
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Systems• PTC Windchill, Siemens Teamcenter
Configuration Management Systems• IBM ClearCase, Serena Version Manager (PVCS), MKS Source Integrity,
Serena Dimensions, IBM Telelogic Synergy, CVS, Subversion
Project Management Systems• MS Project, Primavera, ACTANO RPlan
Document Management and Office Suites• MS Sharepoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, PDF
Process Modeling and Process Improvement• MS Visio, ARIS, EPF, IBM Rational Method Composer, Appraisal Wizard
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Sample Customers
Automotive• Audi, Volkswagen, General Motors, Daimler, Bosch, DENSO,
Continental, ZF, Delphi, TRW, Johnson Controls, Webasto
Medical / Healthcare / Rail• Siemens Healthcare, Thales, Bosch Innovations, NewTec
Banking / IT• Credit Suisse, Atos Origin (ex Siemens Information Systems),
GMC, DHL/German Mail
Defense / Aerospace / Space• Raytheon Anschütz, Elbit Systems, Orbital Sciences, JAXA
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Summary
Stages enables you to
• simplify processes for people by making themeasy to understand, user-centric and project specific
• become more efficient by automating process execution and reducing manual overhead
• harmonize and integrate different tools, platforms and repositories
• manage the whole process lifecycle from definition to practical application
People can focus on process and content rather than tools and mechanics.
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