We follow the generally accepted project management methodology as developed by Project Management Institute. We treat each project as unique and tailor our methodology to offer maximum advantage to the customer.

The success of any software development effort depends on effective project management. IT Elite has a management structure in place that ensures the timely, cost-effective delivery of our products and services. Because we understand our clients' concerns about cost containment and managing deadlines, IT Elite uses a proven methodology for determining and managing project scope, deliverables, budget, timeline, development processes, and deployment issues. Three keys to IT Elite's project management success: Excellent communication, attention to change management, and quality assurance.

Project Planning

All projects have a Project Plan, consisting of three sections:

1. Software Development Plan (SDP)
2. Software Quality Assurance Plan (SQAP)
3. Software Configuration Management Plan (SCMP)

Review and Approval of Project Plan

The project plan is reviewed as per the documented procedures before the project execution begins. The reviewed project plan is approved by the PM, and managed and controlled as per the documented procedures.

Project Tracking and Monitoring

Project plan forms the basis for tracking and monitoring the project, and is kept up to-date as the project progresses. The process of monitoring the project adheres to the documented procedures. Project tracking is done using MS Project.

Revision of Project Plan

The Project Plan is revalidated as per the documented procedures and revised if necessary. The revised Project Plan is reviewed, approved and controlled as per the documented procedures whenever it undergoes a revision

Communication

We believe that for successful execution software projects customer involvement in all phases of projects is a must. We make software development process collaborative efforts between our customer and us. For achieving this, timely communication between two teams is essential. We use emails and weekly conference calls to report project status and to discuss issues related to the project.

Change Request Management

Software Development is a team activity. During the course of complete life cycle, many change requests are raised at various stages from customer, analyst, designer, a member of development team or testing team. Implementing these changes without a proper system of version control leads to many problems.

For each Change Request

• There is a need to understand and analyze the requirement to know the impact on various components.

• Verification that all change requests are implemented and adequately tested is done using traceability matrix.

Risk Management

We identify, analyze and respond to project risks from Project Initiation phase till project closure. Our project plan identifies the risks, documents the risk mitigation plan for each of the identified risks. The purpose of this section is to identify the various risks that could impede the project progress and identify the possible measures to contain them. The highest risk items will also be monitored on a continual basis and corrective action will be taken at the appropriate time.

A sample risk management plan is given below: