CCSS Methodology

CCSS strives to develop products/tools/utilities using SDLC methodology - Rational Unified process for its clients/customers. RUP is a process by which user requirements are elicited and software satisfying these requirements is designed, built, tested and delivered to the client. RUP Process is used when a new application is being developed or a major enhancement is being done to an existing application. CCSS would concentrate at least three of the below mentioned disciplined if in case of minor change in the client system setup.

CCSS uses RUP as a major tool for streamlining its development efforts which happens at different phases of project.

Rational Unified Process:

The four phases of RUP are

Phase 1- Project Initiation (Inception): This is the explanatory phase of the project. Project scope namely in-scope and out-of-scope are described at this stage. In this phase, CCSS professional collects and understand business requirements, detail the project plan and agree upon a high level statement of work. This would help to identify the project's primary objectives, assumptions, constraints, deliverables and acceptance criteria leading to a mutual agreement between CCSS and its client.

Phase 2- Technical Design (Elaboration): In this phase, the architecture of the system is designed. The goal is to translate requirements and specification into a technical solution to produce Technical Design. High-level requirements are drilled down to low-level requirement using different tools like use-case diagram, ERD diagram, activity diagram etc. based on the nature of work.

Phase 3- Construction: In this phase, complete development of the system based upon the baselined architecture takes place. In larger projects, several construction iterations will be developed in order to divide the use cases into manageable segments that produce demonstrable prototypes.

Phase 4- Transition: This phase includes testing of the product in preparation of release and fine tuning the product and taking care of issues like configuring, installing and usability issues. The focus of this phase is to ensure that software is available for its end users.

Phase 5- Post Project Support: Specific timeframe in which CCSS professionals support and fixes bugs encountered in the functioning of the system. Very soon CCSS would be implementing "Change Request" approach in support phase in order to streamline the priorities for client requirements.

Primavera API development:

Most of companies have implemented known popular ERP's / In-house developed ERP to monitor their material resources/ human resources. Also companies have implemented Project management tools like Oracle Primavera to execute and monitor their projects. In these cases, both systems shall be integrated in order to have a single version of truth about the organization's projects, programs, and portfolios. Such integrated scenario helps organizations to have better contract management practises and complete governance over the active projects.

Primavera P6 integrated with legacy ERP / project systems / any other systems enables organizations to combine the planning, resource scheduling, and project management strengths of Primavera P6 with the project sourcing, resource budgeting and planning and financial controlling in order to manage the full project portfolio lifecycle. In addition, executives and project team members can receive the most up-to-date, accurate project information to improve decision-making and project governance.

For better improvement in contract management practises, Oracle primavera API's bridges the gap between ERP and construction project management to deliver an end-to-end solution enabling organizations to follow organizational best practices for budgeting, subcontractor, change and issue management and expedite payments.

Key Benefits:

CADD Centre is successful in developing dashboards, reporting portals for top management, database replication of primavera database and database consolidation of primavera database (Two or more different versions of primavera database is upgraded and consolidated into a single latest version of primavera database.

Project Dashboard:

CADD Centre Software Solutions has developed Project dashboards for decision makers to understand the status of projects at every level. Project(s) dashboards present the graphical view of the project status / progress. As project team members enter information, the Project Management Dashboard updates automatically to provide top management / project managers/ program managers with an up-to-date view of the current health of your projects. Dashboards are designed as drilled down reports which would present detailed data to the top management. This would not only help top official to understand the status of project health but identify the root cause of the issue / risk and helps to resolve quickly and easily. The following are the features have been added to the dashboards: