1. Integration of Issues/Bug Fixes
1.1. Buzilla type bugs and associated tasks are linked toTask Management
2. Integration of Customer Requirements
2.1. Track customer requirements
2.2. Track scope changes and assumptions
2.3. Integrate testing schedules and results
3. Integrating Bid / Proposal Info
3.1. Automatically capture and categorize estimates from Proposals and Bids for future job planning
4. Resulting Defect Tracking
4.1. Bugs created as a result of this job are tracked via Issue Tracking (JIRA?) and linked to JMS
5. Material Management
5.1. PM? enters the planned material costs for the job
5.2. Costs can come from the bid/proposal
5.3. Top job and BTS job material costs compared to estimates and checked against plan dates
5.4. Can be viewed on demand or delivered via Action Reports
6. Travel Management
6.1. PM? enters the planned trips and trip categories, costs and schedules for the job
6.2. Travel schedules are compared to planned travel dates (Travel Request System)
6.3. Travel expenses are compared to planned travel expenses (Travel Expense System)
7. JMS - Features and Phases
8. Project Workspace
8.1. Determine best tool for building, managing and shareing project documentation
8.2. Integration with JMS
8.3. Create a workspace template by dept
9. Syteline Automation
9.1. PM? enters the planned material costs for the job
9.2. Costs can come from the bid/proposal
9.3. Top job and BTS job material costs compared to estimates and checked against plan dates
9.4. Can be viewed on demand or delivered via Action Reports
10. Closing Process Management
10.1. Notification to all interested parties that the job will be closed.
10.2. Identify and capture information to complete the job.
11. Milestone Management
11.1. Manually entered and tracked by PM
11.2. Uses pre-defined VSS Milestones
12. Issue/Risk Tracking
12.1. Manually managed by PM (JMS 1.0)
12.2. Tracks issues encountered in this job, and risks for this job
13. Resource Management
13.1. Tracking and management of task effort
13.2. EACs and Primary Group managed by PM
13.3. Resource conflicts via JMS reports
13.4. Resource forecasts via JMS reports
14. Task Management
14.1. Tracking and management of task schedules
14.1.1. Can come from bid (f)
14.1.2. Can update from JIRA (f)
14.2. Define Op Codes needed
14.3. Pre-defined at VSS and Dept level
14.3.1. Each dept manager can ACD Op Codes and descriptions as needed
14.4. JMS updates to Syteline (f)
15. Action Reports
15.1. Pre-defined, data triggered reports for all critical activities that should be monitored
15.1.1. Tasks that are past the end date but are still open
15.1.2. Tasks that are before the start date but are open
15.1.3. Tasks that are after the start date but are closed
15.1.4. Actual hours exceed threshold, EAC, Baseline, 80%/90%/100%
15.1.5. No actual hours after job start date by x # of days
15.1.6. Milestones that are coming up or exceeded
15.1.7. Material purchases that are over plan (f)
15.1.8. Material purchases that are behind plan (f)
15.1.9. Travel plans that are coming up (f)
15.1.10. Travel expenses that are over estimates by x% (f)
15.1.11. More/fewer trips than estimated (f)
15.1.12. Scheduled management review coming up or overdue (f)