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Preview: The Neuma Unified Process

Does your organization have a well defined Sofware Development or Quality Management process? Why change it just to suit your SCM/PM tool? CM+ Release 6.0 with NUP gives you the freedom to quickly map your existing processes into a truly integrated suite of applications. Every project automatically inherits the new process. Every user understands his or her role and workflow. Every project stakeholder now has immediate and complete visibility to the project status.

The Neuma Unified Process (NUP) provides a framework to model your software development process in CM+. With NUP, you can rapidly configure CM+ so that your team follows industry best practices for software quality and rapid development.

The NUP provides process building blocks consisting of Phases, Disciplines, and Activities. With these building blocks, you establish a development lifecycle model where your team executes the activities, generating Deliverables, and completing Milestones along a project schedule.

The Activities, Deliverables and Milestones are mapped to key CM+ configuration settings resulting in a tailored system. This gives you an efficient tool to track and manage all aspects of the project. As well, it gives each of your team members a tool configured for their role, clearly laying out the workflow activities that they are responsible for.

Phases, Disciplines and Activities

The NUP first breaks down your development organization into industry best practice disciplines allowing for efficient grouping of activities. The NUP then breaks down the development cycle into key phases, again following industry best practice. During a phase, the people in each discipline are responsible for executing the activities necessary to move the project along. Throughout each phase, important decisions are made based on the completion of project deliverables. These decisions determine if the project moves forward.

Supporting Parallel Release Streams with NUP

The NUP gives you the ability to focus activities to specific release streams while maintaining visibility to the wider product picture.

Tracking Project Deliverables

With NUP, many deliverables can be generated from information elements tracked directly in the CM+ applications. For example a project schedule can be generated from the activities defined for that project. Other deliverables are tracked in the CM+ Document Tracking module (Enterprise only) as managed documents, undergoing formal change, review and release cycles.

Tracking Project Milestones

The NUP aligns project milestones with key information element states (which are in turn tied to workflow steps), so that the milestone can be completed as soon as all its linked information elements are promoted to the correct status. The linking is accomplished through a report or query that consolidates the tracked information for review. For each milestone, NUP also inserts a CM+ activity into your WBS so that project-scheduling information can be tracked for the milestone.