Agile Project Management Tools | Bright Green Projects

agile Bright Green Projects is a true cloud-based P ro j e c t M an age m e n t Solution, developed by a team of Management C o n s u l t a n t s w i t h 10 years’ experience working internationally. After working on many of the world’s largest ERP and CRM implementations with 1000s of requirements, offshore development t eams, home workers and globally distributed workforces it was clear that spreadsheets and word documents were not an ideal source of truth for any project! A simple solution was needed that was better for a team to use than excel and

What is Agile Project Management?

more scalable and portable than a whiteboard. It had to be accessible not only from your desk or the project room - but globally. Business Analysts are always running workshops and continually meeting users.

example of cloud computing is hotmail. To access your email, you simply access hotmail.com from any computer with an internet connection. You don’t need to install anything hotmail takes care of everything online.

Bright Green Projects allows everyone to access project information in a workshop, with a client, or even at an airport. Some Project Managers work from home or spend a few days a week in different offices. Remote workers and globally distributed teams are becoming more common.

No “IT Guys” are needed for Bright Green Projects. There is also no need to purchase any hardware or licences. Just pay your regular mont hl y subscr ip tion and Bright Green Projects takes care of the rest. Br ight Green Projects initially launched as a beta to

Rarely are stakeholders in the same office and often development teams are in different continents. Bright Green Projects is a tr ue cloud solution. An

600 organizations, with a collaborative approach, we fine tuned all our features and were in production, with real customer, a few months later.

Agile

“The agile approach fits perfectly with our development practices and gives all members instant visibility into what’s outstanding, what’s high priority, and what functionality we’re releasing in each iteration. BGP's hosted model suits our distributed team as there is no need for local installations or upgrades - we were up and running in less than an hour.” -uLurn

• Agile is a structured approach to Project Management that breaks projects into a succession of small iterations or sprints. • Each iteration or sprint delivers a real, working and tested piece of software to the customer every 2-6 weeks for feedback and review. • Changes are then prioritized against existing requirements and the team begins work on the next iteration. • A Release is made up of multiple iterations.

Key Features

Key Features

Requirements Management Like the plans of a house, requirements are a a core component of any implementation. It is much easier, cheaper to change a requirement in the early stages of a project, rather than after it has been built! BGP allows users to quickly and easily capture and manage requirements. Important documents such as wireframes, process flows or even videos can be attached to each requirement and accessed by the whole team. Agile methodologies encourage the team to embrace change, and as a result, Bright Green Projects has a detailed audit trail to track changing requirements.

Commenting Collaboration

Requirements Management

Commenting and Collaboration

Browser and Operating System Agnostic

Issue Tracking

Prioritized Backlog

Burn Down Charts

Risk Management

Estimates

Virtual Task Board

Document Management

Audit Trail

Workflow

Virtual Task Board Having a task wall with post-it notes is a great way for small, co-located teams to collaborate and get motivated. It’s an information radiator – encouraging team members to stand around the board and interact. But most teams outgrow a physical task wall as requirements and issues expand. Many project teams now work globally and have few opportunities to be together. Bright Green Projects solves these problems with a virtual task wall that can be accessed around the world and used on a large monitor during meetings.

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Inspired by commenting on a photo in facebook, Bright Green encourages your team and customers to comment on requirements or issues. All conversations about a specific requirement are central and available for all to see. It won’t get lost in your emails.

Why use BGP? 1. Cost Effective • No hardware or software • Free personal use • Paid plans from $49 / month

2. Easy to use • Clear and intuitive interface • Essential features chosen by a panel of practical experts.

3. Support • 24-hour support • Response within the hour

4. Built by experts

Issue Management Even the best programmers in the world create bugs in their code. The Issue Management Module allows testers to capture an issue, attach screenshots or videos and then assign it to a developer to be fixed.

• 10 years experience working with companies such as Deloitte, Toshiba, Christies Auctions, Westpac Bank, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland. • Simple, state-of-the-art, enterprise-ready cloud solution

5. System of Record

Estimating and Planning

Iteration Management

Estimates can be captured against requirements and issues. If the expert is offsite, BGP’s “request estimate” workflow will send an email to the expert and prompt them to update the system with an estimate.

Based on estimates, you can easily plan iterations in Bright Green. It’s a simple process of dragging and dropping r e q u i r e m e n t s a n d i s s u e s f r o m yo u r prioritized backlog into each iteration. Velocity is the average amount of work you have completed in previous iterations. Bright Green keeps track of this data and you need to take this into consideration when planning iterations.

Dependencies Projects are complex. Changing one requirement can often impact others. Bright Green Projects allows you to define dependencies or relationships between different requirements, issues or risks.

• All project-related data stored • No version control issues • Your project’s system of record available immediately

6. Traceability and Audit • Monitor changing requirements • Detailed audit trail

7. Flexible and Customizable • Organizational branding available • We customize to include bespoke features • On-site installations available

“I like the electronic card wall (kanban) which is great for our virtual team – it’s not often we can all meet face to face so the wall shows everyone what’s happening. The requirements system has made it much easier, everything is in the one place and so easily searchable….we don’t lose important information any more. Our team members like the comment feature and use it a lot…it’s a way of ensuring good collaboration and makes everyone feel that others are interested in their contribution.” -Team Management Systems http://brightgreenprojects.com | [email protected] | US +1 (845) 704 2628 | UK +44 777 569 1626