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News Release from: DSDM Consortium | Subject: Atern project management software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 April 2007
Project management software helps
budgets
A robust, but agile, project delivery framework software can be used on IT projects, business change programmes and in all industrial sectors to achieve on-time and in-budget delivery.
To packed houses Atern launch events have been held at the Cafe Royal in London, UK, and Technology4Business in Dublin, Ireland These included in-depth tutorials where delegates learned details of the new developments
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Atern launch was accompanied by publication of a Pocketbook which gives a high-level introduction to the technique and forms the basis of further documentation which, as with previous versions of DSDM, is available on the internet at www.dsdm.org along with details of a special introductory offer.
Atern is founded on expertise gained by practitioners in a wide variety of public and private sector projects during the last decade.
It is a robust, but agile, project delivery framework which can be used on IT projects, business change programmes and in all industrial sectors to achieve on-time and in-budget delivery.
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As an important part of the proceedings at the Agile Business Conference is a standalone workshop - Mapping XP - that explores primary practices in eXtreme Programming.
Project management framework used by government
DSDM has been used in a large government department to implement a business change lifecycle, integrating existing approaches to project management, programme management and risk management.
Atern is extremely flexible and is a combination of practical experience, common sense and project management best practice.
It can be used in almost any environment, either on its own or in combination with other techniques, to ensure that projects meet the business requirements.
To achieve this it uses tried and tested ways of involving business end-users in the project alongside constant assessment of progress and changes to essential requirements.
A flexible lifecycle model and proven techniques form the basis of Atern's approach.
Together with clearly defined team roles and an arbitration mechanism for deciding what gets done, and when, this makes it a powerful and agile delivery mechanism.
Whether a deliverable is software, improved productivity or a move to a different business model, Atern can be used to manage the project, will cope with short-notice changes to requirements - and still deliver on time and in budget.
* About Atern - Atern is an independent project delivery framework based on best practice, common-sense and practical experience.
It serves the real and immediate needs of modern business by guaranteeing delivery on a precise date under pressure from tight timescales.
Mechanisms within the framework assist with budget control and its agile nature makes it possible to cope with rapid change and complex situations.
* About DSDM - the DSDM Consortium, based in the UK, is a not for profit organisation which administers and licences the delivery framework in order to protect the intellectual property rights.
The collegiate model ensures that specialists from many different fields continue to contribute to the evolution of the framework.
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