The document provides information about Project Control System and CMS Solutions. It discusses how CMS Solutions can help deliver projects on-budget and on-time by providing a centralized, web-based system for project monitoring, documentation management, and communication. It highlights benefits such as accurate progress tracking, quality assurance, and reduced project management efforts. Contact information is provided for CMS offices in UAE, India, and UK to discuss how CMS Solutions can help with the next project.
How JIRA Core Helps 300,000 Houses Become SmarterAtlassian
Throughout Europe, energy suppliers are replacing conventional electricity meters with smart meters to modernize and reduce energy consumption. Bringing smart meters into 300,000 Norwegian homes is no easy task, but requires an intricate and labor-intensive process to plan, book, dispatch and run each installation. At ReSight, we've set up JIRA Core to track this process. Learn how we customized our unique workflow, issue fields, screens and schemes. You’ll also gain insight into how we enhanced our instance with both custom-made and Marketplace add-ons and how we integrated our back-end systems using JIRA's REST APIs. Lastly, we'll show you how we monitor and report our progress using JIRA Core dashboards. From this talk, you'll walk away with lots of ideas on how JIRA can be used for all kinds of projects outside of software development.
Helene Lund Engebø, CEO, ReSight
DOES15 - Marc Hornbeek - Best Practices for Accelerating Continuous TestingGene Kim
Marc Hornbeek, Sr. Solutions Architect, Spirent
DevOps is all about Continuous Testing. Without CT there is no continuous delivery. This talk will explain how CT affects the success of DevOps and enumerates seven best practices that are essential for acceleration of Continuous Testing which include:
1. Team and culture specific to CT
2. CT System stability and metrics
3. Test tools integration
4. Accelerated test execution
5. CT-Ready tools
6. Fast and relevant test case analytics
7. Orchestration of test topologies
The talk concludes with a discussion of best practices assessments and a case study that shows the benefit of how a large enterprise benefited from CT acceleration.
Continuous Delivery in a Legacy Shop—One Step at a TimeTechWell
Not every continuous delivery (CD) initiative starts with someone saying “Drop everything. We’re going to do DevOps.” Sometimes, you have to grow your process incrementally. And sometimes you don’t set out to grow at all—you are just fixing problems with your process, trying to make things better. Gene Gotimer discusses techniques and the chain of tools he has used to bring a DevOps mindset and CD practices into a legacy environment. Gene discusses how his team started fixing problems and making process improvements in development. From there, they tackled one problem after another, each time making the release a little better and a little less risky. They incrementally brought their practices through other environments until the project was confidently delivering working and tested releases every two weeks. Gene shares their journey and the tools they used to build quality into the product, the releases, and the release process.
Emergent Process Design - Embedded Discovery & Opportunistic Optimizations as a Strategy
Emergence is a way of discovering the modifiable and non-modifiable characteristics and rules of large scale systems by methodically examining the micro systems until macro systems emerge.
A discussion of emergent process improvement requirements and outcomes.
Advance ALM and DevOps Practices with Continuous ImprovementTechWell
Do you want to improve your application lifecycle and incorporate DevOps practices quickly with limited resources? If so, you’re experiencing a common scenario – not enough budget and unrealistic time constraints. Your big multi-year application lifecycle management (ALM) project seems less achievable than ever, and you are left wondering how to move forward. Jason St-Cyr shares how to establish a continuous improvement approach using “build, measure, learn” techniques and a DevOps maturity model to kickstart your DevOps/ALM project. Jason reviews some of the tools—Visual Studio Online, Atlassian OnDemand, and TeamCity—available to support iterative DevOps changes. Find out how to tackle smaller achievable chunks of process improvement, even when time does not seem to be on your side. Learn how to plan for incremental organizational change and examine metrics for monitoring improvements, reporting on success, and supporting your business case for further investment. Join Jason to see why you don’t have to put your organization’s DevOps initiatives on hold.
How JIRA Core Helps 300,000 Houses Become SmarterAtlassian
Throughout Europe, energy suppliers are replacing conventional electricity meters with smart meters to modernize and reduce energy consumption. Bringing smart meters into 300,000 Norwegian homes is no easy task, but requires an intricate and labor-intensive process to plan, book, dispatch and run each installation. At ReSight, we've set up JIRA Core to track this process. Learn how we customized our unique workflow, issue fields, screens and schemes. You’ll also gain insight into how we enhanced our instance with both custom-made and Marketplace add-ons and how we integrated our back-end systems using JIRA's REST APIs. Lastly, we'll show you how we monitor and report our progress using JIRA Core dashboards. From this talk, you'll walk away with lots of ideas on how JIRA can be used for all kinds of projects outside of software development.
Helene Lund Engebø, CEO, ReSight
DOES15 - Marc Hornbeek - Best Practices for Accelerating Continuous TestingGene Kim
Marc Hornbeek, Sr. Solutions Architect, Spirent
DevOps is all about Continuous Testing. Without CT there is no continuous delivery. This talk will explain how CT affects the success of DevOps and enumerates seven best practices that are essential for acceleration of Continuous Testing which include:
1. Team and culture specific to CT
2. CT System stability and metrics
3. Test tools integration
4. Accelerated test execution
5. CT-Ready tools
6. Fast and relevant test case analytics
7. Orchestration of test topologies
The talk concludes with a discussion of best practices assessments and a case study that shows the benefit of how a large enterprise benefited from CT acceleration.
Continuous Delivery in a Legacy Shop—One Step at a TimeTechWell
Not every continuous delivery (CD) initiative starts with someone saying “Drop everything. We’re going to do DevOps.” Sometimes, you have to grow your process incrementally. And sometimes you don’t set out to grow at all—you are just fixing problems with your process, trying to make things better. Gene Gotimer discusses techniques and the chain of tools he has used to bring a DevOps mindset and CD practices into a legacy environment. Gene discusses how his team started fixing problems and making process improvements in development. From there, they tackled one problem after another, each time making the release a little better and a little less risky. They incrementally brought their practices through other environments until the project was confidently delivering working and tested releases every two weeks. Gene shares their journey and the tools they used to build quality into the product, the releases, and the release process.
Emergent Process Design - Embedded Discovery & Opportunistic Optimizations as a Strategy
Emergence is a way of discovering the modifiable and non-modifiable characteristics and rules of large scale systems by methodically examining the micro systems until macro systems emerge.
A discussion of emergent process improvement requirements and outcomes.
Advance ALM and DevOps Practices with Continuous ImprovementTechWell
Do you want to improve your application lifecycle and incorporate DevOps practices quickly with limited resources? If so, you’re experiencing a common scenario – not enough budget and unrealistic time constraints. Your big multi-year application lifecycle management (ALM) project seems less achievable than ever, and you are left wondering how to move forward. Jason St-Cyr shares how to establish a continuous improvement approach using “build, measure, learn” techniques and a DevOps maturity model to kickstart your DevOps/ALM project. Jason reviews some of the tools—Visual Studio Online, Atlassian OnDemand, and TeamCity—available to support iterative DevOps changes. Find out how to tackle smaller achievable chunks of process improvement, even when time does not seem to be on your side. Learn how to plan for incremental organizational change and examine metrics for monitoring improvements, reporting on success, and supporting your business case for further investment. Join Jason to see why you don’t have to put your organization’s DevOps initiatives on hold.
Continuous Testing: Preparing for DevOpsSTePINForum
by Ingo Philipp, Distinguished Evangelist, Tricentis at STeP-IN SUMMIT 2018 - 15th International Conference on Software Testing on August 30, 2018 at Taj, MG Road, Bengaluru
DevOps is the Answer... What was the question again? DevOps and Digital Trans...DevOpsGroup
DevOps is the Answer... What was the question again? DevOps and Digital Transformation was the Keynote speech at DevOps Pro Vilnius in May 2016 and it discussed the reasons why organisations are facing digital disruption and why devOps is a key part of your Digital Transformation strategy
Driving Innovation with Kanban at Jaguar Land RoverLeanKit
Find out how Kanban is accelerating product design and development at Jaguar Land Rover.
Watch the recorded webinar here: https://vimeo.com/172780037
Hamish McMinn, Automotive and IT Project Manager, will explain how Kanban is improving time, cost and quality across new vehicle development projects at Jaguar Land Rover.
You'll learn:
-Why new product development provides rich opportunities for continuous process improvement.
-Benefits and challenges of transferring agile software techniques to hardware design and development.
-How to visualize work, focus on flow and increase cross-functional collaboration using LeanKit.
Hamish will share learnings from the initial pilot project, and how Kanban is now being scaled across multiple engineering teams.
You might have heard about this DevOps thing, but what's it all about? This talk gives you a fast paced insight into real world horror stories from companies that didn't think DevOps practices mattered, and outlines 8 lessons we've learnt from helping people get DevOps initiatives successfully started.
A developers' journey into building automated tests for IT from the ground upstefanorago
Having learned the benefits of applying TDD to application code, my team decided to apply the same technique to infrastructure code. There isn’t quite as much literature available, and we faced many challenges, but we ended up with a rewarding result: a continuous integration server that runs tests at several levels, including acceptance tests. The technology stack involves Chef, Test Kitchen, Vagrant, KVM, Serverspec and Jenkins. Although each one of these parties has at least a good level of maturity, integrating all the blocks has been the interesting part. We discuss how to put together virtualization solutions, configuration management and BDD specs to converge into a fully automated continuous integration system that can and, in our opinion, should become part of the workflow for DevOp teams.
DOES16 San Francisco - David Blank-Edelman - Lessons Learned from a Parallel ...Gene Kim
Lessons Learned from a Parallel Universe
David N. Blank-Edelman, Technical Evangelist, Apcera
Just within the last ten or so years, we have seen at least two separate communities evolve at the crossroads of development and operations. The first—DevOps—grew up very much in public, the second matured sequestered within the halls of “special” companies like Google and Facebook and is only now starting to gain visibility and traction in the wider world. The DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) communities barely speak, yet both have common ancestors and much to offer each other. Let’s look at what they have in common, how they differ, and what are the key things we can learn from both.
DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
Quality Jam 2017: Jesse Reed & Kyle McMeekin "Test Case Management & Explorat...QASymphony
Jesse Reed, QA Director at Questar, and Kyle McMeekin discuss how Questar made the switch to qTest and the key factors you should consider in test case management and exploratory testing.
Maximising the value of the Cloud through DevOpsDevOpsGroup
This presentation talks about how the Cloud and DevOps are complementary innovations that can work together to rapidly change the productivity inside organisations.
Learn how DevOps can maximise the value of your investment in the Cloud.
This is part 1 of a 3 part series from a joint DevOpsGuys / Microsoft event held at The Shard, London, 24th January 2017
Continuous Integration Is for Everyone—Especially DevOpsTechWell
Continuous delivery and deployment are taking center stage in the DevOps conversations. Neither continuous delivery nor deployment are easy to jump into, and both make a lot of assumptions about the applications being released. Continuous integration (CI), however, is for everyone who wants higher development velocity and better quality. CI can be implemented in development shops from brand new to large enterprise teams. When implemented, CI helps the organization take a giant leap into modern development. With the ever-growing expectation for DevOps teams to produce faster, high-quality software releases, continuous testing—a key CI driver—must occur at all stages of the software delivery chain. Chris Riley covers the important tenets of CI metrics, key CI components, testing, infrastructure, and end-to-end testing. Learn how CI can fit into all development shops, and take back strategies for tackling the challenges of a new system including change control, management, and sustainability.
Understand why we keep missing deadlines; what is the element that keeps making us give incorrect dates and how we can estimate better with mathematical basis!
DevOpsDaysRiga 2018: Stas Zvinyatskovsky - Transformation: how big can you dr...DevOpsDays Riga
Can we produce a blueprint for a transformation? This presentation will cover several distinct approaches that companies take to achieve transformation. Each approach utilizes different levers and comes with its own advantages, tradeoffs, costs, risks, and outcomes. Find out more at DevOpsDays Riga 2018 event by Stas Zvinyatskovsky, Managing Director @ Accenture.
Fostering Long-Term Test Automation SuccessTechWell
In today’s environment of plummeting software delivery cycle times, test automation becomes a more critical and strategic necessity. How can we possibly keep up with software delivery’s explosive pace while retaining satisfactory test coverage, keeping the reins on costs, and reducing risk? Carl Nagle maintains that the long-term solution is a greater level of “sustainable” test automation. The SAFS method separates test design from test execution with a data-driven/action-based approach that encapsulates volatile application-specific data into readily localizable “maps” for simple maintenance. Test designs (scripts) are completely independent of the ready-to-run SAFS engines that will execute them. And since the test design methodology does not change over long periods of time, testers can focus more on getting robust automation in place quickly, with little attention paid to each new technology, testing tool, or test IDE. Join Carl to learn how test automation thrives when testers and tools are not tied up in application-specific silos.
Shift left, shift right the testing swing.
This deck shows the testing framework we use today in our agile & Devops team. We do Behavior Driven Development (Shift left) and test in production as well (shift right).
Scrum teams use burn down chart to represent/track the iteration progress, and the most common burn down chart is the time-based one. But when doing that our team got some problems, it's not accurate to use time-based burn down to represent the true velocity and the feature completion. We experienced the situation that the team-velocity was pretty good, which means team could "burn" enough hours, while we didn't DELIVER as many feature comparing with the burn down. This topic is a case study based on what we did trying to resolve our problems.
Tasktop CEO, Mik Kersten, and Nationwide Technology Director, Carmen DeArdo, present the case for Value Stream Architecture at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017.
Continuous Testing: Preparing for DevOpsSTePINForum
by Ingo Philipp, Distinguished Evangelist, Tricentis at STeP-IN SUMMIT 2018 - 15th International Conference on Software Testing on August 30, 2018 at Taj, MG Road, Bengaluru
DevOps is the Answer... What was the question again? DevOps and Digital Trans...DevOpsGroup
DevOps is the Answer... What was the question again? DevOps and Digital Transformation was the Keynote speech at DevOps Pro Vilnius in May 2016 and it discussed the reasons why organisations are facing digital disruption and why devOps is a key part of your Digital Transformation strategy
Driving Innovation with Kanban at Jaguar Land RoverLeanKit
Find out how Kanban is accelerating product design and development at Jaguar Land Rover.
Watch the recorded webinar here: https://vimeo.com/172780037
Hamish McMinn, Automotive and IT Project Manager, will explain how Kanban is improving time, cost and quality across new vehicle development projects at Jaguar Land Rover.
You'll learn:
-Why new product development provides rich opportunities for continuous process improvement.
-Benefits and challenges of transferring agile software techniques to hardware design and development.
-How to visualize work, focus on flow and increase cross-functional collaboration using LeanKit.
Hamish will share learnings from the initial pilot project, and how Kanban is now being scaled across multiple engineering teams.
You might have heard about this DevOps thing, but what's it all about? This talk gives you a fast paced insight into real world horror stories from companies that didn't think DevOps practices mattered, and outlines 8 lessons we've learnt from helping people get DevOps initiatives successfully started.
A developers' journey into building automated tests for IT from the ground upstefanorago
Having learned the benefits of applying TDD to application code, my team decided to apply the same technique to infrastructure code. There isn’t quite as much literature available, and we faced many challenges, but we ended up with a rewarding result: a continuous integration server that runs tests at several levels, including acceptance tests. The technology stack involves Chef, Test Kitchen, Vagrant, KVM, Serverspec and Jenkins. Although each one of these parties has at least a good level of maturity, integrating all the blocks has been the interesting part. We discuss how to put together virtualization solutions, configuration management and BDD specs to converge into a fully automated continuous integration system that can and, in our opinion, should become part of the workflow for DevOp teams.
DOES16 San Francisco - David Blank-Edelman - Lessons Learned from a Parallel ...Gene Kim
Lessons Learned from a Parallel Universe
David N. Blank-Edelman, Technical Evangelist, Apcera
Just within the last ten or so years, we have seen at least two separate communities evolve at the crossroads of development and operations. The first—DevOps—grew up very much in public, the second matured sequestered within the halls of “special” companies like Google and Facebook and is only now starting to gain visibility and traction in the wider world. The DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) communities barely speak, yet both have common ancestors and much to offer each other. Let’s look at what they have in common, how they differ, and what are the key things we can learn from both.
DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
Quality Jam 2017: Jesse Reed & Kyle McMeekin "Test Case Management & Explorat...QASymphony
Jesse Reed, QA Director at Questar, and Kyle McMeekin discuss how Questar made the switch to qTest and the key factors you should consider in test case management and exploratory testing.
Maximising the value of the Cloud through DevOpsDevOpsGroup
This presentation talks about how the Cloud and DevOps are complementary innovations that can work together to rapidly change the productivity inside organisations.
Learn how DevOps can maximise the value of your investment in the Cloud.
This is part 1 of a 3 part series from a joint DevOpsGuys / Microsoft event held at The Shard, London, 24th January 2017
Continuous Integration Is for Everyone—Especially DevOpsTechWell
Continuous delivery and deployment are taking center stage in the DevOps conversations. Neither continuous delivery nor deployment are easy to jump into, and both make a lot of assumptions about the applications being released. Continuous integration (CI), however, is for everyone who wants higher development velocity and better quality. CI can be implemented in development shops from brand new to large enterprise teams. When implemented, CI helps the organization take a giant leap into modern development. With the ever-growing expectation for DevOps teams to produce faster, high-quality software releases, continuous testing—a key CI driver—must occur at all stages of the software delivery chain. Chris Riley covers the important tenets of CI metrics, key CI components, testing, infrastructure, and end-to-end testing. Learn how CI can fit into all development shops, and take back strategies for tackling the challenges of a new system including change control, management, and sustainability.
Understand why we keep missing deadlines; what is the element that keeps making us give incorrect dates and how we can estimate better with mathematical basis!
DevOpsDaysRiga 2018: Stas Zvinyatskovsky - Transformation: how big can you dr...DevOpsDays Riga
Can we produce a blueprint for a transformation? This presentation will cover several distinct approaches that companies take to achieve transformation. Each approach utilizes different levers and comes with its own advantages, tradeoffs, costs, risks, and outcomes. Find out more at DevOpsDays Riga 2018 event by Stas Zvinyatskovsky, Managing Director @ Accenture.
Fostering Long-Term Test Automation SuccessTechWell
In today’s environment of plummeting software delivery cycle times, test automation becomes a more critical and strategic necessity. How can we possibly keep up with software delivery’s explosive pace while retaining satisfactory test coverage, keeping the reins on costs, and reducing risk? Carl Nagle maintains that the long-term solution is a greater level of “sustainable” test automation. The SAFS method separates test design from test execution with a data-driven/action-based approach that encapsulates volatile application-specific data into readily localizable “maps” for simple maintenance. Test designs (scripts) are completely independent of the ready-to-run SAFS engines that will execute them. And since the test design methodology does not change over long periods of time, testers can focus more on getting robust automation in place quickly, with little attention paid to each new technology, testing tool, or test IDE. Join Carl to learn how test automation thrives when testers and tools are not tied up in application-specific silos.
Shift left, shift right the testing swing.
This deck shows the testing framework we use today in our agile & Devops team. We do Behavior Driven Development (Shift left) and test in production as well (shift right).
Scrum teams use burn down chart to represent/track the iteration progress, and the most common burn down chart is the time-based one. But when doing that our team got some problems, it's not accurate to use time-based burn down to represent the true velocity and the feature completion. We experienced the situation that the team-velocity was pretty good, which means team could "burn" enough hours, while we didn't DELIVER as many feature comparing with the burn down. This topic is a case study based on what we did trying to resolve our problems.
Tasktop CEO, Mik Kersten, and Nationwide Technology Director, Carmen DeArdo, present the case for Value Stream Architecture at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017.
Leveraging Full Adoption for Demand Management and Capacity PlanningCA Technologies
See Matt Morgan's from UnitedHealth Group, Optum Technology presentation on leveraging full adoption for demand management and capacity planning.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
If projects are the primary driver of your revenue this webcast is for you. Come learn how to optimize the project lifecycle in your organization.
Learning Objectives:
How to make the project lifecycle come alive
Growth, It All Starts with a Plan
CRM
Pipeline
Winning new Contracts
Execution
Budgeting
Forecasting
Earned Value Management
Project Management Office
Reporting/Analysis
Know how Cygnet Infotech delivered a robust #ProjectManagement solution that addressed client's daily project planning and management challenges saving cost, manual work and time while improving efficiency.
After diving deep into the client’s business challenges, Cygnet conceptualized a Project Management Solution for effective resource allocation and added transparency in operations.
3. CMS HQ - UAE Office Proactive Project Management Indigo Icon Tower, Suite 1502 Jumeirah Lake Towers, P.O.Box 282108, Dubai UAE Larry Baker +971.50.481.1089 Group Operations Director Web www.wrenchepc.com/cms Email [email_address] CMS India Office Facile Towers, Victoria Road, Bangalore - 560 047, Karnataka, India Mr Varghese Daniel + 91.802.530.4170 Group C.T.O Email : [email_address] CMS UK Office. Markshall Lane, Norwich NR14 8QP. Mark Baker +44.46.032.86846 . Operations Director UK & Europe Email [email_address] Greg Slater +44.7780.943123. Group Director of Renewable Energy & Systems Email greg.slater@wrenchsolutions.com
4. “ To be honest on this regard I think that when we set out on the Wrench Installation it was envisaged to some degree to be a document control tool, which to our benefit has now evolved to be a project control tool, being used by all. ” Clint Nisbet MSc, BSc, MCIOB Murray Roberts Construction Manager simplifies your life . CMS Solution for your Projects.
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6. CMS Simplifies your life . 40% reduced design cycles 25% quality team efficiency 100% ISO compliance … now these were the simpler tasks achieved by CH2MHILL VECO Engineering, providing EPC services to the Oil & Gas industry.
7. CMS Simplifies your life . 40% faster engineering cycle times 100% data security 100% quality enforcement … now these were the simpler tasks achieved by Khatib & Alami (K&A), a multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consulting company
8. CMS simplifies your life . www.wrenchsolutions.com/epc 34% reduced design cycles 0% documentation errors 100% quality improvements … now these were the simpler tasks achieved in project 611 by Al-Habtoor Leighton Engineering & Construction group.
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11. It records transactions as they occur. You get accurate indication of progress and problems encountered during execution. ■ Our solution
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13. What is the progress? (cost/schedule performance index) Work package Package to payoff Deliverables Milestones What percentage is completed? Were they completed on schedule? Without CMS Solutions, you need about 2000 manual updates per week (assuming 500 deliverables per package) to assess progress
14. Assessing progress is easy, immediate, and 100% accurate! Work package Package to payoff Deliverables Milestones Automatic updates – planned vs. actuals (of start/finish dates) captured directly by WRENCH. Automatic updates: Actual finish date captured by WRENCH. With CMS Solutions . . .
19. Actual Costs Earned Value Planned Value Budget at Completion You get: status S-Curve
20. You get: the big picture: Cost Current position Time
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22. On-time On-budget Summary On-time On-budget Measurement (Where are you?) Evaluation (Where did you plan to be?) Correction (How to get back on track?)
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24. How can I afford NOT to have it? Contact CMS Solution for your next Project.
25. List of work packages of a project Present Process
